Do It In Bad Taste – vote Tribal Assembly

Bad Taste Cru of Omagh and Lithuania and based in Newcastle has been shortlisted for the Sadler’s Wells Global Dance Contest again – their second time since they made the final ten in 2009.

Their piece, Tribal Assembly, is competing against nine other shortlisted submissions from around the world to perform at Sadler’s Wells next January.

Bad Taste Cru are Breakin’ Convention regulars having performed at Breakin’ Convention in 2008 with Council of the Ordinary and has since reworked and expanded their performance into a full length piece.

“Tribal Assembly is an extended version of our piece Council of the Ordinary which we’ve performed at Breakin’ Convention and travelled around the UK and America,” said Paul Martin, aka P, member of Bad Taste Cru. “[The piece had] been commissioned for a consortium Without Walls who wanted us to create a piece that we could perform at street art festivals up and down the UK, so we took four characters from Council of the Ordinary to help the story a bit more so we’ve expanded to a 45 minute piece from a 15 minute piece.”

Tribal Assembly, featuring characters representing a homeless person, a business man, a chav, and a rocker, has since performed at festivals from Brighton to Bristol and back home in Omagh, putting considerable artistic weight behind their nomination.

If Bad Taste Cru win the Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest they will receive a £2,000 cash prize and an expenses paid trip to London to perform in January 2012 at the annual Sadler’s Wells Sampled showcase.

“If we won it would be amazing. The last time we got shortlisted was when [other crew members] Robbie, Jelly and Rukus were working with another choreographer, Simon Williams, on IMREADYWHENUR. That piece did really well, so that nomination was really good for us,” said Paul. “But for this piece, because we’ve had such a hand in choreographing and we did the whole thing ourselves from start to finish, our idea has evolved so much and we really care about it.”

“The whole show has come from a strange source, I think with all the work we’ve put into it, we’ve travelled with it, we feel like we know the characters,” he reflects. “B-boying can again be taken to a different level.”

To vote for Tribal Assembly visit the Sadler's Wells Global Dance Contest website and click 'vote' under Paul Martin.

The deadline for votes is 2 November 2011.