A Hip-Hop Dance Revolution at Birmingham Hippodrome
Boy Blue Entertainment UK
Pied Piper
by Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante, Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy and ULTZ
Birmingham Hippodrome
Wednesday 18 – Saturday 21 March
Birmingham Hippodrome plays host to PIED PIPER a production which pushes street dance to its limits.
PIED PIPER is a bold, contemporary, hip-hop street dance interpretation of Robert Browning’s poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, which won an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement or Performance in an Affiliate Theatre at Theatre Royal Stratford East in 2006. It is now revived for audiences who missed the original sell-out production.
A powerful picture of London street life - Metro
PIED PIPER closely follows the structure of the original story but this version of the morality tale is told from an edgy, modern perspective. In a typical urban setting the rats become ASBO’d hooded youths.
The Pied Piper, played by Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy, choreographer and co-founder of Boy Blue Entertainment, promises to rid the streets of the so-called vermin of society but when the city Governors renege on their deal the Pied Piper takes his revenge. The exhilarating energy of the young dancers creates an innovative and thrilling 90-minute performance. Original music is by Boy Blue Entertainment co-founder Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and the show is directed and designed by ULTZ.
Some of the leading street-dance performers in the country – The Independent
Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante and Kenrick ‘H20’ Sandy founded Boy Blue Entertainment in 2001, with the aim of encouraging teenagers to embrace dance while teaching discipline, team building and exposing them to performance and story-telling. Since then it has provided access to dance training to more than 500 young people, many of whom perform in Pied Piper, and it is now East London’s most innovative street dance troupe.
PIED PIPER features some of the UK’s leading street dance performers together with local young street dancers who will become the children of Hemelin.
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