The Race in Dance in the Square

Salah El Brogy Company performed a revised version of The Race over at Lyric Square as part of DanceWest’s Dance in the Square.

Less than an hour to go until we perform The Race here at Lyric Square. See you at 1pm & 4pm today. @DanceWest1 pic.twitter.com/EEQuLuvEo0

— Salah El Brogy (@selbrogy) June 22, 2016

The free event was received so well by its audience and received standing ovations from both the 1pm and 4pm performances.

Mesmerising performance by @selbrogy @LyricHammer #Danceinthesquare @HammersmithBID pic.twitter.com/Lf6psceNcQ

— DanceWest (@DanceWest1) June 22, 2016

The piece, first performed at The Place’s Resolution 2015 Festival, featured three dancers and wowed the crowd with their intense athletic moves.

Here are some images on the day, with thanks to DanceWest for the photographs.

Here are some tweets about the day:

Today's lunchtime was filled with inspirational dance @LyricHammer with @selbrogy & cake @PeytonandByrne pic.twitter.com/W8Lgj32bGW

— Katie (@wilkinsonred) June 22, 2016

Beautiful, physical and dynamic performance from @selbrogy @DanceWest1 @LyricHammer @HammersmithBID #Danceinthesquare

— Rosie Whitney-Fish (@rwhitneyfish) June 22, 2016

@selbrogy company just graced us with 'The Race' for #DanceintheSquare @LyricHammer @HammersmithBID @DanceWest1 pic.twitter.com/Nh6pYND2li

— An Entrepreneur Babe 🤑 (@pcassie95) June 22, 2016

The Race featured in Dance in the Square by DanceWest

A revised version of Salah El Brogy Company’s The Race will be performed on Wednesday, June 22 outside the Lyric Hammersmith, King Street.

Catch dancer, performer, choreographer and dance teacher Salah El Brogy with two talented dancers perform at 1pm and 4pm.

The Race was originally performed at The Place as part of its Resolution Festival 2015.

Watch the highlights here:

 

This free event, presented by DanceWest, is part of Lyric in the Square as part of their Free Summer Festival.

 

The Race Highlights

Here is my Throwback Thursday contribution… highlights from The Race, which was part of Resolution! 2015 at The Place, London.

The Race is a personal observation of humanity’s ugly side – tackling and criticising politics (undisciplined armies), economics (commercialism, capitalism) and society (racial conflict) – that despite having emotional intelligence, the rules of the jungle still very much apply.

The Race

The Race, which was part of The Place’s Resolution! 2015, is a 25-minute contemporary dance piece with five dancers involving live cameras (to visually provide different perspective of what the audience can see on stage) and video art. The Race is my personal observation of the world criticising and reflecting my rejection for what human beings have turned out to be today (soaked in materialistic life / MTV generation) and have been animals to each other in physical, spiritual and power/political levels (resulting in undisciplined armies, racial conflict, colonising each other’s homes, countries, even brains, killing each other, destroying each other and even ourselves bit by bit), which eventually all melts down into the notion of survival of the fittest where despite humans having emotional intelligence, the rules of the jungle still very much apply.

Here are some images from the brilliant Jane Hobson featuring my collaborators Michael Kelland, Jordan Ajadi, Dang Hai Dao and Nicola Migliorati:

The Race made it to The Times:

Here is the teaser:

Check out the review from londondance.com.