Elektro Kif are a French Elektro dance troop consisting of some shockingly youthful dancers for their abilities. Their performance was choreographed elegantly considering the music they were jiving to, but most impressive was their synchronisation. They moved as if one single entity, to put it bluntly. With one of the group separating off to make their own way around the stage at any one time.
The movement was continuous yet they hardly seemed to break a sweat, everything they did, the bizarre contortions one would only find oneself in if one was combining electro house, ballet and voguing all in one swift move, appeared to be what their bodies were born doing.
The score, composed by Tao Gutierrez, was an impressive range of afrobeat, electro and classical. The two of the eight dancers who became the focus during the classical section were phenomenal in their movements making the deftly incorporated ballet with voguing, seemingly natural partners. However, this area is similarly my main critique, could we not have removed the squeaky trainers that thumped and distracted from the routine? Baring this in mind the two dancers were graceful.
Whilst I perched on the edge of my seat hypnotised by the group, the rest of the audience were having a wail of a time laughing at the jokes between numbers that I wasn’t getting. Silent disco-Michael Jackson high-pitched impressions with accompanying moonwalk just don’t float my boat. The excitement was clearly too much for a few to handle as the middle aged lady to my right “whooped!” as one of the dancers dropped his trousers, I have no idea whether this was in awe of the dancing prowess with which he swarvely dropped his kecks or the considerable muscle on display, either way she was appreciating it.
