One flew over the cuckoos nest..

The show was called 'Gökboet' - but it came to the same thing. On Friday I was lucky enough to get tickets for Dansens Hus to see Bounce! in the penultimate performance of Gökboet, a show which had had good reviews and, luckily for me, had been extended into January.

Bounce! are a Street Dance company and to be honest I wasn't sure what to expect.. a dance show based on a play about inmates at a mental hospital? Hmmm...
But it was VERY good.

The music, the set, the lighting and the dance... all were good. There was a little dialogue - in the very beginning - the inmates talking swedish and the doctor and wardens english - but for the rest it was dance that told the tale. Dance on crutches, dance in bed - dance in wheelchairs and dance climbing up the walls. Dance in the movies and even dance among the audience. Very energetic, but yet sympathetic, to music ranging from brash techno to 'Peter and the Wolf'.

I came away full of admiration for the cast - and the flair and imagination that had gone into the production. Highly recommended...

And after? Dinner after at Bistro Bohéme (Stockholms quirkiest decor?) was just the thing to round off the evening. A nice way to end the week..