CAMUT BAND
presents

"The drum is the most important instrument... As ever, this is terrific entertainment from the Spanish troupe... From their tapped entrance to piano accompaniment through seamlessly interchanging drum duets, scratch deejay-cum-statue routines, quick-witted rap’n’tap sequences and the daft virtuosity that demonstrates how to walk with rhythm, this is a fast-moving performance that’ll dare you to sit poker-faced. Camut Band wear their dance mastery and their drum corps magic lightly. Audience non-participation is a definite no-no."
 

Rob Adams THE HERALD – 15 Agost 2005

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“The technical ability and physical stamina of the group is undeniable..."

"The troupe excels however when it applies its philosophy of capturing the rhythms of everyday life to human interaction, conveying a heated argument between three puffed-up males entirely without speech and unearthing the emotion in individuals’ footsteps..."

"Skids and scrapes turn into music, while a tray full of sand transforms them into human maracas, evoking insects scuttling across the hot African desert.

Nuala Calvi THE STAGE, 11 January 2007. London
 


“Entirely serious about the joys of polyrhythmic communication..."

"The unpretentious charm of the band’s six members... Kiting-Kita is peppered with laughs, a welcome signal of the Camut Band”

Donald Hutera THE TIMES, 19 January 2007. London
 


"Add humour and narration, mix beats with slides, everything goes, everything seduces us with its complex simplicity and its wide development in short distances."

"The mentioned experience turns Walking into a story from A thousand and one nights, fruit of Sherezade with drums."

Joaquim Noguero LA VANGUARDIA, 3 October 2005
 


"Frenetic and infectious rhythm. Freshness. Complicity with the audience. Energy. All this is Camut Band. In short pure life, which they transmit with large smiles because you can tell that they enjoy making enjoyment."

Begoņa Barrena EL PAIS, 4 October 2005
 


"Their celebration of the partnership of drummer and dancer makes for an intense spectacle - sometimes in the fleeting details as much as in the big moments."

"The audience got their chance to join in this bedlam - clapping and shouting rather than dancing, I hasten to add, and rose to the occasion."

"Irrepressible energy, their infectious good humour and, most of all, a palpable delight in this elemental fusion of clapped hands, walloping drum skins and relentlessly rattling feet."

Jim Gilchrist THE SCOTSMAN, 11 Agosto 2005
 


KITING KITA  Walking With Rhythm is comprised of different parts which follow one another without a break:
 

NUMBER NINE - Two dancers glide on sand recreating with their sounds and movements the melody of a piano accompanied by three "bougarabous" and cajon.  


ST PAULI & NIMBA - Two drummers incite the four tap dancers with their toms and the St Pauli dance begins a rhythmic dialog, the number finishes with a djembe solo and the dancers on huge drums "Golimas".  


 VOCAL DIALOGUE – A rhythmic-vocal dialogue on a table.  


GOLPE SECO – A tap dance solo on huge drums "Golimas", jamming with the swing of a piano. 


AFRICAN SPAEK - TARARRAU - Artist talks of his experiences in Africa, presents the band playing Sabarh (Wolof drums from west Africa) and invites the audience to participate with the rhythm.  


WALKING – Tap dance walking with a lot of rhythm and humour.

 
BODY PERCUSSION – A dancer and a percussionist show us the sounds and rhythms played on their bodies.


RAP & CREST – Four dancers on Golimas and a drummer with his voice start rapping on the highest moment of the show. 


CONGA SLIDE - Finale


ARTISTIC CREDITS:
 
PRODUCTION KITING KITA SL  &  J.C.PRODUCCIONS
 
CREATION AND DIRECTION CAMUT BAND 
 
MUSIC AND COREOGRAPHY LUIS MENDEZ, TONI ESPAÑOL, RAFAEL MENDEZ 
GUILLEM ALONSO. 

INSTRUMENTS PIANO, BOUGARABOU, SAND, CAJON, TOMS, TAP, DJEMBE, GOLIMAS,  VOICE, SABARH, GURTU, BONGOS. 
PERFORMERS
 
TONI ESPAŅOL - GUILLEM ALONSO - NESTOR BUSQUETS - RAFAEL MENDEZ - LUIS MENDEZ - JOSEP MELENDEZ  
 
 
SOUND TECHNICIANS DAVID NORMAN
 
LIGHTING TECHNICIANS EVARIST VALERA
 
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION JOAN CARLES SUBIAS, MONTSE PELLICER
 
INSTRUMENT DESIGN T.ESPAÑOL 
 
SOUND DESIGN DAVID NORMAN 
 
LIGHTING DESIGN EVARIST VALERA 
   
COSTUMES ULI MACIEL 
 
PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID NORMAN - JUAN MANUEL MARTĪNEZ - ALFONS MEDINA
 
GRAPHIC DESIGN INERCIA BCN
 
VIDEO DOMAIN PRODUCTIONS

 
 
 
 
 
 

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