I saw this tonight with a friend and it is fantastic, though if someone had told me about the first five minutes of jazz hands and tap I would have never gone. Shoes is however, for the most part - utterly brilliant, really sexy and also at times actually laugh out loud funny. My top performances were; the 3 bed scene which was a dimly lit stage with 3 rout iron bed frames and three really hot women writhing about accompanied by one equally hot man dancing about in a lady gaga allehandro-esque 5 minute sex scene-a-thon!
There is also a male dancer who does his own freestyle contemporary dance to show his love for a pair of adidas trainers (weird but good) to the The Roots - How I Got Over, (I think that's the track name) which is a funny coincidence as someone was talking to me about them just the other day. I don't know anything about dance but I'd say it was a mix of ballet and breakdancing, really graceful but totally gritty.
But the whole show should have been about one part in particular - the wedding frame scene, which was a bride and groom dancing inside a giant metal picture frame which they walked up the walls of, upside down while it was turning on stage. There were few lyrics to the backing music which is why I liked it, the whole 'story' was played out in a few minutes of unbelievable dance. I'm crap with words at the best of times as my job is all about aesthetic and every day I get less and less articulate - but if you want to take someone to something really different - then go to this.
(note there are some really cringey too over the top camp bits between the good parts)
Decided to seek out some sort of Imelda Marcos museum (there must be one surely) while in Manila and also ditch the beautiful but crippling shoes I wore tonight. x
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