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Performers
Hatim
Kamel
Ryan Chappell
Lil Flex
Martine Muncaster
Rachel Yau
Tristan Coulter
Caramel
Lil' Cesar
DJ Hazze
Teneisha Bonner
Safwaan Shoshoni
Tommy Franzen
Any Butterfield
Anika
Berhang
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Sadler's
Wells
28
August - 14 September 2002 |
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All art started
in the streets, and the newest recruit
to the vocabulary of dance and movement
has arrived from there too, in the form
of break dancing, boogaloo, popping,
locking, swing and tap – in short,
the whole "hip-hop" dance ethos. It
is vigorous, athletic, demotic, and
democratic, needing only a driving beat
and a flat-enough few square inches
of anything on which to spin on your
head, leap into a hand-stand, or contort
about until the audience is sure all
the dancers will get twisted gut. That
is Bounce,
and it is a pleasure to see.
Who dances,
as well what the dance is, matters:
so we need to know that the energetic
ensemble includes names to conjure with:
WilPower, DJ Hazze and Lil' Cesar, all
of them members of LA's "Air Force Crew",
which the promotional material says
is world-renowned. If sheer motility
is a guarantee of universal fame, this
crew deserves it.
In an
effort to vary the tempo and introduce
some narrative structure, there is a
slow, meaningful section just after
half way, with allusions to death and
murder, war and sorrow, survival and
tenderness. It half-works; perhaps the
genre is inapt for this part of the
human emotional range; certainly it
was a relief when the flow of energy
restarted, and with it the wit, dash,
dazzle and flight that makes this form
of half-dance, half-gymnastics such
an enjoyment. For a vicariously cathartic
evening it is hard to better.
AC
Grayling |
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