FACELESS & ILLADELPH PHLAVE

PRESENTS

Face Da Phlave

Face Da Phlave is an innovative and dynamic fusion of the best hip hop dancers from Philadelphia and South Jersey who have joined forces to create and perform original hip hop dance. The company's work is and electic and electric mix of breaking, locking, popping, hip hop, and house dance.

Illadelph Phlave:

In May 2004, following their success in Kompany Malakhi's 2003 UK tour of A Hip Hop Story, Philadelphia based B'boys Marcus Tucker, Husain Zahir, and Amra Ricketts returned to the UK with Andrew Ramsey to teach, choregraph, and perform with UK based Sundada Biswas and Normand Charlemone, and was known as The Hip Hop Collective. The Hip Hop Collective had their world wide premiere at Sadler's Wells Theater where they received wide acclaim:

"Hip Hop Collective offered knock-out bravura..."
     ~Clement Crisp FT Magazine, May 22, 2004

"The Hip Hop Collective offered, a group of British, American, and French dancers, frame the show-off sequences with a group stomp. It's a short, bright, highly focused performance, danced with verve."
     ~Zoe Anderson, The Independent, May 19, 2004

"the event soared, with four ace acts that show how hip hop might work in the theater farther than in clubs and street where it began...part of the bill were the Hip Hop Collective, good atheltic movers (head spins, shoulder spins, one-handed spins)"
     ~Sarah Frater, The Evening Standard, May 17, 2004

Following their debut, they toured the UK over the summer with "Raw and Real", a performance and education program. "Heroes" was performed in theatres as well as outdoors at festivals and was a huge hit with audiences everywhere, from toddlers to teenagers and even pensioners. Alongside performing dancers undertook an extensive training program, teaching workshops and week-long summer schools as well as touring their school performance program in London and Leicestershire. The company created quite a following during their tour. Not only are the dancers' skills extraordinary but also their attitude and philosophy of inclusive Hip Hop is a great example, and role model, for young people today.