Kultureflash 2003
Of all the evening's to be spent in London at the moment, there's one that has enough charisma to show us a good time whilst having the audacious invention match that, by using bungled terrorist plots and hysteria. Dance Bear Dance is an event that invites its audience to participate in "making the world a better place", ostensibly through the assassination of an unknown target, but actually through drinking, gambling and copious amounts of enjoyment, with at one point, a very startled crowd of fellow audience members. Since it was first presented by the Shunt collective last year, the show has undergone some enticing tweaking. Now it's a more sophisticated creature, with excellent video art by Susanne Dietz and sound, which is always strong and idiosyncratic in their work, doing its fair share to whip up the spectator/hostage ambience (brought to us by Conspiracy). Dance Bear Dance is funny, beautiful and distinctly shambolic -- all the ingredients for a successful evening's entertainment...