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Stomp (touring)

Description: Glynis Henderson Productions, 69 Charlotte Street, London W1T 4PJ / STOMP has no words - everyone can understand it. It ... more

Stomp (touring) ... has little or no melody in the traditional sense, so it doesn't matter if your taste in music is jazz, classical, dance or pop. STOMP is about rhythm, which is common to all cultures. Everyone knows rhythm, if only from the beating of their own heart - it is the basis of all music.

Newest Review: ... words or lyrics and is a group of people using everyday, mainly household, objects in order to entertain and captivate the audience. For example they use dustbins lids and dustbins, the old metal type, to create a whole range of noise - banging the lids on each other, using wooden sticks for another sound effect and banging the bins on the floor. Another act had them with sinks hung 'round ... more

... their necks and using water (and maybe washing up liquid) to create a squeeky effect as they used their fingers and the water to rub on the edge of the sink. I really didn't think that this would be the whole show. I thought that there would be more to i...more

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Stomp (touring): Stomp! (459 words)
by - written on 16/08/08 (Useful, 52 readings)
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This was the first production I saw in London, it was quite random just walked to Leicester Square and they had cheap tickets (about £20) and I'd heard of it and seen it on Blue Peter several years ago so we decided to go for it. I wasn't really sure what to expect from the show. Having seen it on Blue Peter I could remember the actors with dustbin lids and sinks and making 'music' with these. But beyond this I wasn't really sure, they couldn't make a whole show just out of this - could they? The show itself was without any words or lyrics and is a group of people using everyday, mainly household, objects in order to entertain and captivate the ... Read the complete review