Circle of Fire
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Friday, Nov 10 › 9pm& › $5
This week’s St. Vitus features Circle of Fire, with Acroyear, DJ Twelvizm, and DJ Fur Purse.
Seldom does a Friday pass without a dance night at Someday. And by "dance night", we mean both that a selection of groundbreaking DJs, Live PAs, and laptop jockeys will provide a soundtrack for your own shoes; but that a troupe of dancers from the other side of the stage will deliver a short performance for inspirational purposes.
About the artist
Circle of Fire's mode, like the mode of their local and international contemporaries, is not robotic. They don't moonwalk (also called the electric slide) or "pop and lock." And though their floor work is acrobatic, it's not preoccupied with creating the illusion of floating in space. The nine dancers in Circle of Fire don't have a fixed agenda; they are multifarious, fluid, supple, always shifting. They don't so much move as morph, perpetually, from one shape into another. If the first generation of breakers were robots designed by NASA, then the new generation are genetically engineered freaks designed by Gattaca Corporation.
Circle of Fire are even cautious about describing what they do as breakdancing. It's too limited a term for their art, which is influenced by a diversity of dance practices and traditions from around the world. According to Bob Foxhoven, who has been with Circle of Fire since they started in 1997, the crew prefers the term urban dancing, or not having a definition at all. "We don't like labels," he explains. "Yeah, we are rooted in breaking, but we do so many different things, and want to be open to new things, so calling it breaking seems insufficient."—Seattle Stranger
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