Groovaloo Freestyle

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Let's say this right up front: the dancing in Groovaloo Freestyle, now at the Union Square Theatre, is oftentimes thrilling and amazing. As a dance-theater piece, however, the show's ambition far exceeds its reach.

Conceived and created by Bradley Rapier and Danny Cistone, the show presents itself as a contemporary version of A Chorus Line with the performers dancing and telling their own stories, but the script falls somewhere between banal and pretentious. As much as it would like to inspire, it too often comes off as empty rhetoric and ignores an essential rule of writing: don't tell us, show us. (Most of the personal stories are recorded and told as voice-overs while the dancing happens[...]