UK Artists using Hip Hop elements: Spoken Movement

 

Spoken Movement:  https://www.spokenmovement.org/single-post/2017/03/15/Wisdom-Wednesday-UK-Artists-using-Hip-Hop-Elements

 

"Wisdom Wednesday" UK Artists using Hip-Hop Elements

March 15, 2017

Photos:  Benji Reid                                                           Jonathan Burrows

Photos:  Benji Reid                                                           Jonathan Burrows

In the UK there is a small group of artists using elements of hip hop in the creation of dance/theatre who I describe as marginal figures. They dance the precarity of our times, as they search for a new performance alchemy. Their work seeks to evade stylistic boxes, responding instead to a powerful, unstoppable, need to question the sociocultural and political environment in which they live. They seek a new voice, a new state of movement and another way of doing things. Kwame Asafo-Adjei is one such artist.

(Paul Sadot, 2017)