Hip-hop dance vs Donald Trump: How robot moves just got political

The hip-hop dance feels like reference to oppression and lack of safe spaces for minorities

Suddenly the dancers’ bodies freeze, caught in a white rectangle of light. Reduced to a state of shivering, their faces contort until what emerges is a scream. But this is a scream we do not actually hear. We only see it in the dancers’ gaping mouths against a looping sound of white noise – and then: utter silence.

This is ten minutes into Blak Whyte Gray, the hip-hop dance production by east London collective Boy Blue Entertainment showing at the Edinburgh International Festival. It is the closing moment of “Whyte”, the first