Photo by Angela K. Evans

Block 1750 re-envisions annual ‘Murmuration’ performance

Moving from behind his computer, Goodgold starts to dance to synthesized music. There’s a pause — and he waits for a live keyboard cue before he starts to move. As the music builds, played by Tyson Bennet, Goodgold tilts his head, snaps his arms out, pops up onto both toes of his sneakers, before rolling onto his knees.

From Compton, the hip-hop dancer is in Boulder as part of the annual production of Murmurationput on by Block 1750, a dance studio and community space run by the Colorado Hip Hop Collective.

Over the last decade or so, there have been varied iterations of Murmuration, a community showcase featuring a variety of collaborations between dancers and musicians. “The whole concept was artistic unity with new collaborations,” says this year’s producer and director Sarah Touslee. “So instead of putting a B-boy or a hip-hop dancer with a hip-hop beat, we were putting them with a harpist or something.”

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