Stomp Tickets - Stomp"ing Everywhere

Stomp is a percussive Off-Broadway symphony, coupled with dance

, played on unconventional instruments, such as garbage can lids, buckets, brooms and sticks. It is played by the use of everyday objects in totally non-traditional ways.

Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, Stomp creators, were a group of street performers commonly known as "buskers," who spent their time trying to attract people's attention in Brighton, England.

If Stomp teaches anything, then it's the fact that music is in everything, no matter how trivial it may seem. Call it what you wish. It's not quite music, but it is sounds; not quite dance, but movement; not quite a play, but a wonderful show!

The current personification of the show has numerous changes from early years, seven-year "Stomp" veteran Nicholas Young said from the tour's current stop in Anaheim, Calif. "The show now includes much of the music that was written for the Las Vegas version of the show" Young said.

The perfect way to understand Stomp would be to see it live. From the opening of the performance there are random people who come on stage with random objects to make coordinated noise called music, perhaps just like it was thousands of years ago. STOMP makes us think we travel to the origins of music and yet gives it a completely new definition.

Gestures, freedom of movement, choice of items used and more result in freedom of music for Stomp. At times it seems that cast is involved in rather uncoordinated movements, yet it moved as one, simply complimenting each other.

Throughout years, "Stomp" succeeded to win many awards, including an Olivier Award for Best Choreography, considered to be London's equivalent to the Tony Award, but more impressive than any list of accolades is watching the entertainers themselves.

Young said "Everyone really takes something different out of the show, whatever they want."

by: James Rach

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