In My Body

Show & Culture

With In My Body, street dance becomes an arena, where dancers measure themselves against the gaze of others – and against time itself. "It’s said that the bravest thing a dancer can do is grow old." A major figure in Canadian hip-hop, Crazy Smooth draws on this phrase and a private injury – a buckling knee – to confront a nagging question that battle culture rarely names: What’s left of the b-boy when the backflip’s gone? To the razor-sharp beats of DJ Shash’U and the spoken word of Alejandro Rodriguez, nine dancers, from the elder born in 1965 to the youngest of the crew, put breaking, popping, and house to the test of time. Battles, meditative solos, and group formations echo one another, paying vibrant tribute to hip-hop’s pioneers while keeping alive the memory of a whole community.