UNTAPPED TOUR 2017

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UNTAPPED TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT!

Introducing RAW’s UNTAPPED 2017 Tour Cast!

Brianna Taylor, Kieran Heilbronn, Katie Struik, Owain Kennair, Martin Kay, Brendan Ramnath (Drums/MD), Genesis Beatbox Cerezo (beatboxer) & Ginner Whitcombe (Tour Coordinator).

Co-Directed and Co-Choreographed by Andrew Fee & Jack Chambers, Untapped serves up a mix of urban tap, street style and hip sounds, overlaid with a healthy dose of self-deprecating Aussie humour. Winner of the 2016 Adelaide Fringe BEST DANCE SHOW & Direct from a Sold Out Season at the The New Victory Theater in New York City, Untapped is a rhythmic extravaganza of dazzling sight and sound that you won’t want to miss…

Come Witness this incredible show as it tours Queensland.

March 17, 2017 Sunpac
March 18, 2017 The Events Centre, Caloundra
March 22, 2017 Pilbeam Theatre
March 24-25, 2017 Centre of Contemporary Arts Cairns
March 28, 2017 Proserpine Entertainment Centre – Whitsundays
March 29, 2017 Capella Cultural-centre
March 30, 2017 Gladstone Entertainment Convention Centre
March 31, 2017 Incandescent Dance Company
April 1, 2017 Redland Performing Arts Centre
April 3, 2017 Logan Entertainment Centre
April 5, 2017 Brolga Theatre and Convention Centre
April 7-8, 2017 The Arts Centre Gold Coast
April 10, 2017 Ipswich Civic Centre
April 13, 2017 Mount Isa Civic Centre

April 19-29 2017 Cremorne Theatre, QPAC

Where Dreams Are Made – APT33

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Brianna recently performed with New York tap dance company Apartment 33 (Director- Chloe Arnold)  in a brand new production ‘Where Dreams Are Made’. She was honored to be apart of the show as the only Australian in the cast. This marks her third time to New York to perform in the last year. She is excited to continue her love of performing both nationally and internationally.

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New York Times Review – ‘Untapped’

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REVIEW: In ‘Untapped,’ Percussive Sass From RAW Dance Company

“Untapped!” at the New Victory Theater.

By SIOBHAN BURKE

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

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If a show’s success can be measured by the number of happily shrieking children in the audience, then “Untapped!” was a big hit on Friday night at the New Victory Theater. The perky percussive dance production, performed by the RAW Dance Company of Brisbane, Australia, brings together five tap dancers, a beatboxer and three musicians — on bass, guitar and drums — for one relentlessly energetic hour intent on engaging distractible minds.

 

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From left, Brianna Taylor, Jack Chambers and Sally Hare of Raw Dance Company in “Untapped!” at the New Victory Theater.

None of the 18 numbers — which range from tapping in flip-flops to a flamenco-inspired duet — exceeds six minutes, and the performers pause more than once to find out how the audience is doing. That question was met with high-pitched cheers from the crowd of mostly children and parents on Friday, as were the dancers’ splits, headstands, back handsprings and other classic stunts.

Choreographed by Andrew Fee, who founded RAW (formerly Raw Metal) in 1998, and Jack Chambers, an alumnus of Australia’s “So You Think You Can Dance” who also performs in the work, “Untapped!” sets out to amuse and stays in that key: the hard sell. By turns goofy and sassy — with the two women in the production, Sally Hare and Brianna Taylor, delivering most of the sass — it recycles the same dependably eye-catching devices in routine after routine. Rhythms are passed down a row from one pair of feet to the next; movement ricochets through a vertical column of bodies, from front to back. Is choreographic invention too much to expect from family entertainment?

On the other hand, if that’s what it takes to get youngsters enraptured with dance, so be it. The most imaginative passages involved changes of footwear — into bare feet, then flip-flops, then flippers, with one hapless dancer (Ginner Whitcombe) most fully equipped for an ocean dip in a snorkel mask and inflatable armbands. Such is the sense of humor in “Untapped!”

Vocal acrobatics sometimes upstaged physical ones, courtesy of the evening’s beatboxer, Genesis, whose voice is as agile — and as capable of multitasking — as the dancers’ feet. In the most giggle-inducing section, he provided the beats (from offstage) as the drummer Brendan Ramnath jammed on an invisible drum set.

The night wouldn’t have been complete without a moment of audience participation, demonstrating that everyone has some “Untapped!” talent: a brief beatboxing lesson from Genesis for one brave young volunteer, who went home that night with a few new skills in her pocket.

“Untapped!” continues through Feb. 21 at the New Victory Theater, 209 West 42nd Street, Manhattan; 646-223-3010, newvictory­.org.

New York Times Review

LINK TO REVIEW: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/arts/dance/review-in-untapped-percussive-sass-from-raw-dance-company.html

Apartment 33

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Brianna has recently been offered a position in Chloe Arnold’s professional tap company, Apartment 33 in New York and is very excited to continue her passion for tap dance and performing globally.