Made up of the the eight masked dancers who won the 2002 Battle of the Year b-boy championship in Germany, the band was invited by the Korean Cultural Centre in Cairo. The group are also famous for Marionette, the performance that has toured the world which they brought to Egypt. According to South Korean ambassador to Egypt Yoon Soon-Gu, the performance is a creative storytelling show that can be enjoyed by an audience of all ages. The dance performance was accompanied by a sand art show entitled Life: 20 Minutes by artist Kim Ha-Jun, who has worked in this medium for 26 years. Life:20 Minutes tells the story of a pretty girl born amid the charming nature, where the sun rises, flowers bloom and trees flourish. After growing up, she falls in love with a handsome youth. Days pass and the little girl becomes a mother. The story ends with a scene in which she becomes a grandmother. This is the life. Life begins with a seed that grows and flourishes, then it shrivels and falls while another flourishes in its place. Acknowledging the inevitability of death, this is nonetheless a message of happiness and love that stresses the human connection with nature, the cyclical nature of living and the stages of life. Ha-Jun's sand animation comes across as a gripping motion picture, full of action and colour. Expression Crew band The Expression Crew's own performance featured three sections: Marionette Store, Marionette and Young Lady and The Wizard and the Last Show; all part of a story entitled The Marionette Puppet Theatre. The marionette performance combines b-boy with classical music to deliver an exciting and entertaining show. The first scene revolves around a puppeteer who lives a happy life, performing with his puppets in a remote village. One day a wizard comes and destroys the show by cutting the strings of the marionettes and bringing them to life. In the second scene, a young lady falls in love with a marionette. The third scene is about the villagers who are so enthralled by the wizard and his performance they hand the theatre over to him. The puppeteer and the marionettes perform their last show. Through the relation between the puppeteer, his marionettes and the wizard, the performance sheds light on values of freedom, love and death, with sentences written on the screen as the performers dance. Expression Crew is the first b-boy company to be established in Korea and aims to develop b-boy culture and a new cultural industry. In 2006, it was the first b-boy band to perform in New York and was ranked second in World of Dance Korea in 2016 and won the grand prize of Korea Hip Hop Festival in the same year. It was also the first Korean band to win the Battle of the Year.
