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B.P.M. - beastperminute Blackbird Productions The Umbrella Revolution Season Closed In reviews such superlatives as stunning, exciting, dazzling, brilliant and electrifying are all too often flippant and clichˇ. But what the heck! Let's now get out the thesaurus and run with them because Melbourne's B.P.M. (beatsperminute) really are all that and a whole lot more. Three tap dancers, Glyn Gray, Nathan Sheens and Cassie Sharpe, backed by a versatile three-piece band, Ben Daley (guitar), Brett Canning (Bass) and drummer, Peter Skelton, synchronise their talents in ways never expected before. To add a further twist, enter hip-hop soul and rock vocalist Sun Park and you have a combo that's exceptionally tight with their timing and yet offhandedly fluent - with youthful pizzazz. Opening their one hour show with Gray and Sheens taking to the floor with an unaccompanied tap duet, they're joined by Sharpe as she enters the stage tapping away between the arms of the bass player Canning, from here on the rest of the band take up their positions and in a show that never once comes to a stand still as the pattern of onstage performers constantly switches and swaps around. Fusing percussive acid jazz/hip-hop with street smart tap dancing together with Park's amazingly huge, effortless genre-crossing vocals and a radiant, strobe driven light show, and the results are no less than awe-inspiring. This is a multilayered rap and tap show that will leave you breathless and smiling. |
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