Dance and world music

JEFFERY AND Co. are back again with a sequel to their first presentation, Dance!

Helpfully named Dance - 2!, the presentation is being fine-tuned for a mid-January premiere in Chennai, nearly a year after their initial offering.

The backdrop is Egypt and the dance and music incorporate, far too many elements spanning a world of music styles - Indian classical, Latino, Tap, Jazz, Power and Ballroom.

Dance! - A celebration of the millennium spirit - was the first production of the Chennai dance school, The Hot Shoe Dance Company and was a timeless story of love and passion for life set against a stormy backdrop of world history. Dance! too incorporates bits and pieces of world music - from Latino Dance, Tap, Jazz, Jazz Ballet, Power and Ballroom styles - to bring its plot to life.

Dance - 2! represents a coming together of some of the best artistic and professional talent in the city for a single production, says Jeffery. He promises that the Hot Shoe production will redefine the entertainment standards here. There are as many as 89 dancers and assisting them will be a group of sound and light specialists and musicians.

Jeffery, a veteran of over 125 productions, is a qualified ballet instructor, who learnt a lot from his association with the `Victorian Dance Company,' of Australia.

Jeffery says that the company's magnum production will be on view at the Music Academy on January 15, at 3 p.m. and later, at 7 p.m.

By R. K. Radhakrishnan

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