La Banda del Surdo is a company of drummers and stilt walkers working in the areas of music, percussion and street shows since 1996.
Over the years the artistic proposal La Banda del Surdo has focused mainly on Percussionante!, a street show which uses percussion and rhythm as its principal focus. A numerous formation of percussionists with a repertory of rhythms from around the world (Latin, Brazilian, Flamenco, African, Hip-Hop, Oriental,...), accompanied by the dancing of stilt walkers, appears in the middle of crowds to reclaim the streets and give us direct contact.
La Banda del Surdo creates a party out of percussion music which you dance to with your ears, listen to with your eyes and absorb with your feet. Percussionists and dancers take to the street with a show that is loaded with energy and colour. Music permeates from body to body, rhythms from all around the world, passion, movement, good times… and loads and loads of heat!
La Banda del Surdo has participated with great success in the principal festivals of music and street theatre in Catalonia and Spain, and it has international experience with performances in France, Italy, Belgium, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Germany and Norway. It is also frequently collaborating in productions with other companies, among which Cirque du Soleil, Comediants and Studio Festi are of renown.
DUKKUN, NEW ON-STAGE SHOW
About to celebrate their tenth anniversary La Banda del Surdo presents Dukkun a new on-stage show that incorporates important new arrangements from the group’s repertoire of street theatre. With a vital approach and percussion as the main element, they maintain the traditional style of the company, but with the introduction of melodies, voice and other instruments to explore new universes of sound.
More information about Dukkun in Myspace www.myspace.com/dukkunbandasurdo
For more details, please visit www.labandadelsurdo.net