Dancing in the Streets
From: Monday, 8th February 2010
To: Saturday, 13 February 2010
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Synopsis
Dancing In The Streets is a celebration of the ageless music that started in the 60s and is still so popular today. Music made world famous by Motown from the heart of Detroit city. Drawing on the energy and emotion that Motown music generates this spectacular show will take you through a part of our history and culture that this music has so firmly become.
Our Review:
9 February 2010
Dancing In The Streets is an ebullient celebration of the golden years of Motown, a genre that emerged in the early sixties, spearheaded by the now legendary, Berry Gordy in Detroit, Michigan.
Motown Records (also referred to as Hitsville), brought black music into white homes, and turned African American culture into a commoditised phenomenon that could be consumed by the masses - one which as this show proves, is still popular to this very day.
Directed by the Ivor Novello award-winning, Keith Strachan, Dancing In The Streets begins with an impromptu audience warm up from the evening’s compeer, a former soundman of the Hitsville era, who introduces the singers in a fragmented narrative, which sees the performers belting out such classics as, Smokey Robinson’s ‘Tracks of My Tears’, Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it On’, and Motown’s first number one hit by The Marvelletes, ‘Please Mister Postman’. ...
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Flying Music (Producer)
Keith Strachan (Director)
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