It’s all going on at the Sydney Opera House these holidays, and
at the core is the high energy, glossy street dance spectacular Blaze. This show comes to Sydney direct
from a West End season and it’s full of the best young contemporary street
dancers from all over the world.
If like me you’ve got your insight to
these different forms of street dance from the TV show ‘So you think you can
dance’ then its that for sure, but with a whole level of production and theatricality
that takes it to 90 minutes of full-on exciting and dynamic contemporary dance.
The concert hall was packed full with all kinds of people from families, dance
school students, date nighters and groups of friends just taking in a holiday
show.
The set, designed by Es Devlin, takes over the whole width of
the concert hall stage and is inspired by the chaos of a teenage bedroom and
provides a canvas for technically sophisticated video and light projections
that use pioneering video mapping technology. It’s super clever with its heaps of
doors and draws allowing the dancers to both access and leave the stage in ways
that add to the slickness of the visual.
This show features music by Michael Jackson, Lady
Gaga, Kanye West, David
Guetta and
the well known tunes all add to the flow of the dancing – which is just
wonderful. These sixteen dancers cover every street style with each getting
their moment to showcase their particular style.
There are several
highlights but I loved the trio of tappers working their magic to Michael
Jackson’s Thriller and the fun of MC
Tony Thrill in his audience participation Atomic
Food sequence.
