The International percussion performance group STOMP makes its return to Nashville on Saturday, Nov. 12 with a performance at Tennessee Performing Arts Center’s Jackson Hall.
STOMP: Percussion, movement and visual comedy
Created by Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas, STOMP started as a street performance in the UK in 1991 and grew into a show experienced by more than 24 million people in 50 countries. The performers “make a rhythm out of anything we can get our hands on that makes a sound,” says Cresswell.
Both household and industrial objects find new life as musical instruments in the hands of an idiosyncratic band of body percussionists. It is a journey through sound, a celebration of the everyday and a comic interplay of characters wordlessly communicating through dance and drum.
STOMP creates its own inimitable, contemporary form of rhythmic expression. The show uses everything but conventional percussion instruments — dustbins, tea chests, radiator hoses, boots, hub caps — to fill the stage with a compelling and unique act that is often imitated but never duplicated.
Tickets start at $40 and can be found at tpac.org, by phone at 615-782-4040 or in person at the TPAC Box Office, 505 Deaderick St., in downtown Nashville.
