By Cameron Lucadou-Wells
REVIEW
360 ALLSTARS
The Drum, April 12
IF only to have been gifted with co-ordination.
All the modestly talented audience could do on 360 Allstars’ opening night at The Drum was clap, hoot and cheer in response to the party tricks displayed by this bunch of good-time boys.
They promote themselves as a revolution of the circus. There’s a bit of cross-dressing clowning, break dancing acrobatics and stunts on all kinds of moving apparatus — every act seemed to be literally based on revolution.
It was hard to top a power-packed first act introducing each of the showmen: BMX flatlander Peter Sore using his bike as a twirling climbing-frame, a gleaming Rashaun ‘Basketball Man’ Daniels dribbling five basketballs and Rhys Miller as the spokes inside a giant hula-hoop — more technically known as a Roue Cyr wheel.
Miller lowered his rolling wheel to a gravity-defying acuteness. During his oscillations, his nose appeared to be a mere half-metre from the floor.
Two world-champion break dancers B-Boy Physicx and B-Boy Leerok faced off in a ‘mortal combat’-style duel of headspins, scything kicks, leaps and fast footwork.
Check our video here for the all the moves by 360 Allstars as they wowed the crowd at Dandenong Plaza
Basketball freestyler Rashaun Daniels and break dance world champions B-Boy Physicx and B-Boy Leerok wowed a crowd at Dandenong Plaza on Monday.
Live-looper Sam Perry meshed rich soundwalls of siren-like wailing and percussion, and ringmaster and drummer Gene Peterson wore a drum-cam as he attacked his drum set.
During these blockbuster intros, the performers won large kudos from the audience for their precision and agility across their artforms. Despite the odd fumble and technical glitch, these guys look all too comfortable in performing the improbable.
The challenge for act two was to ensure the show didn’t flag from the opening’s peaks.
That was an ambitious task but the circus gave it a shake.
Sore and Miller double-teamed on a Roue Cyr for a brief oscillation, Physicx winching himself into one-armed handstands, Leerok circled the stage with a dozen seamless backflips and weightlessly leapfrogged four with a tumbling aerial somersault.
By the end, you could just sit there and think there’s not many more places this act could go. Nor anyone else in the world.
