Falling Gestures
In the 1980s, the UK rave scene was the birthplace of a dance style known as ‘cutting shapes’. Today this is now considered a sub-style of shuffling, a dance style that quickly became a staple in club scenes across the country and now all around the world.
UK Shuffle Team is a dance community that began during 2020, spanning the whole of the UK, through a friendship of dancers between London, Birmingham, Manchester, Glasgow and Edinburgh. Gathering in the South Bank and Waterloo area to practise and perform dance together, they always encourage the public to freely participate and enjoy their celebration of music and dance. They have become a community beacon for all to join, with regular meet-ups on the doorsteps of the National Theatre and Royal Festival Hall
Falling Gestures portrays Daryll Brown ‘shuffling’ in dialogue with Jeppe Hein’s Appearing Rooms, an interplay between two bodies of movement. The title refers to these cascading moments of expressive dance and mirrors that of Hein’s fountain installation, which has now become synonymous with the Southbank Centre’s architecture.
Commissioned by Southbank Centre as part of the Dance Your Way Home' programme
Photographer - Buster Grey-Jung
Assistant - Joshua Onabowu
Movement Artist - Daryll Brown
Producer - Helena Adalsteinsdottir
