Flawless: Chase the Dream

Since bursting onto the scene last year as finalists in the wildly popular reality TV show Britain’s Got Talent, Flawless have been taking the world of street dancing by storm. In the space of a very prolific year for them, they have been variously crowned World Dance Champions, Best Street Dance Group and Best Choreographed group at various national and international competitions. And this production is very much a showcase of their thrilling, acrobatic talents. But more than this, Flawless: Chase the Dream is a very engaging, often funny performance.

As impressive as this street dance exhibition undoubtedly is, though, Flawless: Chase the Dream is not, well…flawless. Given their background and rise to fame through Britain’s Got Talent, they don’t seem to have yet established a method to truly work their (obviously adoring) crowd. The atmosphere in the Udderbelly is a little flat, something which one feels could be solved if these dancers tried to engage a little more directly with their audience. One would be surprised how far a few orchestrated clap-alongs can go.

Sandwiching the performance are two equally nauseatingly twee video links, the first introduced by the disembodied voice of Simon Cowell; the ending features the Flawless boys spewing out clichéd waffle about how important it is to give up that unsatisfying 9-to-5 job and to follow one’s heart; advice that seems rather ill-timed given the state of the country’s economy.

Of course, these are rather facetious complaints. Flawless is entirely about spectacular street dancing and they deliver that in spades. Judging by the whooping and hollering that cheer them off the stage, nobody was leaving the Udderbelly unhappy with what they saw.