Salford set to STOMP 28 October

STOMP! comes to The Lowry, bringing fresh foot stamping, finger drumming, and dustblin lid bashing to Salford this October half term.

Using everyday household items, from paint cans and pipes to bin lids and brooms, eight energetic performers fuse dance, percussion and comedy together.

The show also features fresh material, including routines Frogs and Trolleys in the company’s signature of childish delight in making serious noise.

Frogs explores the bizarre sonic possibilities of a variety of plumbing fixtures – organic, quirky, while Trolleys taps into the everyday experience of negotiating a busy shopping aisle with a fully laden supermarket trolley but soon transforms into the closest STOMP! will ever get to drum corps and it's first fully fledged routine to be performed entirely in 5/4 time signature.

From a single drum, hanging around creator and co-director Luke Cresswell’s neck back in 1991, STOMP! has taken on a life of its own.

Now in its 23rd year, the show has played over 14,000 performances to over 14 million people in 50 countries on five continents. In its lifetime STOMP! has consumed over 60,000 boxes of matches, 40,000 brooms, 30,000 bins, 30,000 drumsticks and 35,000 litres of black paint applied with 1137 paint rollers.

The show has been performed at the 2012 London Olympics closing ceremony, the Royal Variety Performance, The Oscars, Emmys and Latin Grammys.

They have also fronted television adverts for Coca-Cola, Toyota and Heinekin and have entertained celebrities from Quincy Jones, Bob Dylan and Liza Minelli to Dolly Parton, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Willis.

STOMP! is produced by Glynis Henderson Productions & Stomp Productions. Stomp! is directed and designed by Luke Creswell and Steve McNicholas.

The show runs at the Lowry from 28 October – 1 November.