"I've broken every bone on the left side of my body at least once. My knee, ten years ago, my elbow five years later, a toe, a finger, and under my left eye I have a scar of a stone that someone threw at me when I was a child.' Jesús de Vega, dancer, choreographer, videographer and table tennis player, has broken a lot: 'All on the left side. I don't know exactly what it means, but it became clear that something was out of balance.
He has now found this new balance in Choreopopop, a performance he created with the versatile musician Chai Blaq. Choreopop is a live album with ten songs in which heavenly vocals, exhilarating percussion and sensorial electronics come together convincingly. Jesús de Vega not only uses his body as a dancer in this dance concert: he uses it also to set music in motion and to show where it hurts. Literally, in this case, because the opening track contains the live amplified sound of his battered knee, incorporated in a rousing loop by Chai Blaq.
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