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Hip Hop Theatre
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Hip hop theatre is a term used to describe the hip hop culture, whether dance, rapping beatboxing or even graffiti, is put on stage for a theatre audience.
The combination of the two has put hip hop in the position of being seen as an art as well as a culture, and has given birth to some of the most creative shows that make it to theatre venues, such as Jonzi D’s Breakin’ Convention, Boy Blue’s Pied Piper and Zoonation’s Into The Hoods.
Here’s a selection of everything hip hop theatre that TooMuchFlavour has reported on...
Hip hop theatre: Facts and key people
Hip hop theatre is fortunate enough to have plenty of talented pioneers leading the way forward.
Hip hop theatre shows:
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Jonzi D’s Hip Hop Surgery
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Every dancer makes the annual pilgrimage to Sadler’s Wells to go Breakin’ Convention for a fix of hip hop theatre that pushes boundaries, which is why we have a host of reviews and exclusive features lined up including interviews and more!
Jonzi D’s Hip Hop Surgery: an evening of poetry, rapping and improvised hip hop theatre surprised and entertained us as the fourth wall of theatre was broken: the audience.
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Taking elements of hip hop and skating culture then setting it to a rock soundtrack
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Swedish street dance group Bounce charmed and amused us with Insane In The Brain, their take on the classic book, play and film One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Check out our blog on haters too, it’s deep...
With ghetto fabulous culture, glorification of guns and dumbed down lyrics, someone had to speak out against wack hip hop. Jonzi D’s production stars Bashy as the lead character of Markus The Sadist, and it isn’t afraid to say what it thinks... ironically!
Christmas has arrived early for fans of hip hop dance as the two leading street dance
productions from Boy Blue Entertainment and Zoonation are making a return. But whose
side are you on? We’ve put the two side-
It’s live, there’s a vibe, so it can only be Live Vibe -
Hakeem “Impact” Onibudo’s successful variety show is winding down until next year, so it’s bringing some of its best acts from 2009 out for one last show...
The ASBOs are back!
Boy Blue Entertainment’s Olivier Award winning masterpiece, Pied Piper returned to the Barbican last week after a nine month hiatus since it toured the UK in March.
Zoonation’s “Hip Hop Fairytale” is the alternative to going to the pantomime this Christmas, but its street dance take on a popular musical doesn’t measure up to some previous hip hop theatre...
Two friends, decorating a mate's apartment. And a whole lot of time to waste with
hip hop-
We’ve seen Rannel’s hip hop comedy theatre production before, but it was so good first time we saw it again!