The seven-member, all-male, Los Angeles–based hip-hop dance troupe known as Jabbawockeez is a highly unusual organization. But it is not the austere white masks and mysterious white gloves the performers always wear onstage that make it so unusual. Nor is it the strange name, which is derived from that of the title character, a dragonlike creature, in the Lewis Carroll nonsense poem "Jabberwocky." And neither is it the company's distinction as the first dance crew to ever headline its own show in Las Vegas. What makes Jabbawockeez a truly rare dance troupe are the communal sensibility and the collaborative practices that drive everything about how the group is run and how its work is created and presented. Whereas most dance companies have an artistic director who is solely responsible for all of the organization's creative decisions, the members of Jabbawockeez work as a team, collaboratively determining each and every...
- 8/6/2010
- backstage.com
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