Street dance spectacular BOUNCES in to SA at last!
If you love to move and you love to watch others move, make sure to get to this show – the tickets are bouncing out the door! (heh heh) BOUNCE is a refreshing show featuring d*mn hot street dancers – Tsipatsipa has nothing on these guys and gels. See the different styles below.
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Here’s the scoop:
Proudly presented by Vodacom, Metro FM, GHFM and eTV. Bounce! pushes the boundaries of modern theatre and dance by celebrating the powerful vitality and influence of the street in a thrilling stage spectacle.
Brought to you by BIG Concerts, the SA tour kicks off on the 12th of July in Johannesburg, before grooving down to the Mother City on the 10th, and to Durban on the of 16th of August 2005.
A synthesis between modern-academic dance and hip-hop creates an inventive new way of dealing with hip-hop dance. “BOUNCE is a smashing, entertaining and amazingly brilliant show, that incorporates an exciting array of dance styles, combining Breaking and Popping with Swing, Tap and Boogaloo, in a unique production set to a pulsating soundtrack of music including Hip Hop, Jazz and Rap.
The stage of Bounce looks like an urban adaption to the successful set of West Side Story, with ghetto architecture. The dance is mixed with rap from a DJ and a human beat-box, and shows the history and culture of hip-hop in a nutshell. Funk, jazz, nightclub dance, John Travolta disco soul from the 70’s, the first raps of Grandmaster Flash, and the MC Hammer dance: the black street culture in a free associative form.
The 15 dancers can perform all styles like popping, locking, b-boying or the boogaloo in a breathtaking way. Limbs go every way and in unexpected directions, the un-logic of the human body is visualized.
HIP HOP
This term refers to the culture itself. It’s not something you do, it’s a way of life! There are 7 elements of hip-hop: MC, DJ, graffiti, locking, popping, breaking and beat boxing.
LOCKING
This style was developed on the west coast of America by Don Camballock and his fabulous lockers, and was a forerunner to hip hop. It is best described as playful, with over- exaggerated gestures and explicit, distinct movements.
POPPING
This dance came from the US west coast. Popping can be broken down into several different styles: waving, hitting (contraction of the muscles), tickin’. Animating, King Tut, bobbing, boogaloo, robot and mime.
BREAKING (OR B BOYING)
This dance originated from the ghetto neighbourhoods of New York in the late 1970’s. Breaking demands more physical strength than any other style and uses a combination of tough moves, for example, up rocking, foot-working, spinning, freezes and aerodynamics.
OLD SKOOL
Old Skool is a term, which relates to the music, dance, MC – ing and DJ – ing of the late 1970s and 80s. Old Skool is hard-core and encompasses the dance styles of popping, boogaloo and breaking.
NEW SKOOL
New Skool is a more freestyle genre, incorporating all of Old skool and styles of dance but mixing it with a “tribal” hip hop flavour. Developed in Los Angeles, it recognises African roots, but is heavily influenced by earlier hip- hop culture.
BOUNCE is a spectacular show, which takes an art and turns it into a slick and polished hi octane show, with dazzling bodywork, awesome break-dancing and acrobatics. Get your tickets now for the most diverse dip into dance culture you’ll ever experience! Bounce will also be supporting Unite Against Hunger with the upcoming tour, Unite Against Hunger is a crisis food relief programme, spearheaded by food and healthcare giant Tiger Brands. This worthy project feeds over 108 000 children every monday.
