Company
Fierce and Walk The Plank
Company Fierce is a Manchester based
street dance ensemble led by dynamic young choreographer
Darren Pritchard. Company Fierce combines a thriving
street dance training programme for young people
with professional touring productions.
Gulliver’s Boom Box is collaboration with
established street theatre company Walk The Plank.
The project undertook a Research and Development
phase in 2007 with development support from Without
Walls and Contact Theatre. It will be redeveloped
in May 2008 for touring in summer 08 and beyond,
with choreographic input from Hip Hop Theatre
pioneer and Sadlers Wells resident artist Jonzi
D.
Gullivers Boom Box is a trip through time showing
the development, evolution, skill and sophistication
of street dance. Set on an impressive, larger
than life ghetto blaster that acts as a music
system and performance stage it is a kind of time
tardis for dance movements and music. It houses
dancers who burst out of the hi-fi set demonstrating
the highest level of choreographic artistry to
illustrate the decades. From the soul funk filled
70’s and the evolution of disco and Locking,
through the 80’s era of shell toes and the
birth of rap music to the present day we see street
dance brought right up to date. The show reflects
the changing fashions, dance styles and politics
through the decades against a funk filled musical
soundtrack.
Appearing at:
The Bristol Do
Stockton International Riverside Festival
Winchester Hat Fair
X Trax Feasts Festival Manchester
www.companyfierce.co.uk
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