Well, there wasn’t much in this show for D – all the dancing nearly naked gyrating men were really for my benefit. Heh heh. There were a couple of ladies in the show, including a singer, but not as much eye candy for D as the lads were for me. Bale de Rua (literal translation Street Ballet) is a mix of hip hop, African dance, samba and capoeira. The dances are shown through a series of stories from quiet almost sad slave numbers to big large high energy dance scenes. The dancers, all male but one, certainly leave nothing behind and carry it all off with a grin (when appropriate of course).

Many of the men also take a turn on the percussion – which really gave a Carnival feel to the performance. It’s a shame the rest of the soundtrack, save the female singer, was not performed live but on playback.

I wish I could say I enjoyed the show totally but it was a bit weak and dragging in parts. I think it was the lack of direction at times which caused the rhythm to be disrupted as it was caught between the storytelling side and the performance side – with the little narrative in between it was hard to hear the full message. Still, there were some spectacular numbers and the costumes and colour of the whole show really gave it that party flavour which made it overall an enjoyable performance.