Japanese Kodo drummers, American marching bands, English bell ringers, New Guinean percussionists and other international ensembles share the screen in this infectious survey of rhythmic expression, assembled by Stomp founders Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas. The large-format film is a philosophical extension of the troupe's muscular stage performances, which remove dance from the rarified high-culture milieu that many people find off-putting, and instead brings in the noise and the funk. It showcases performers from all over the world and connects them, both through striking cross-cultural similarities in movement vocabulary and purely filmic juxtapositions, lik...
Released:
2002
Rated:
NR
Length:
60 mins