Diversity!

On the first of December, me and my mum and sister went to see diversity in Hammersmith Apollo in London. It was such a good atmosphere and they had amazing supporting acts. We arrived at the arena and Marvell Crew were on stage playing their music, they were so good and me and Lisa (my sister) particularly enjoyed it as we both love the kind of music that they were doing. They introduced a male solo artist to the stage and he sung too, both of these supporting acts were clearly right for the targeted audience because it was heavy base and music that the audience would dance to. The lights went down as soon as everyone was seated and so the audience all screamed for diversity and a beat boxer appeared ‘Pete boxer’ he was the best beat boxer I’ve ever seen and heard of! He introduced diversity to the stage after 30 minutes of performing his amazing talent.

Diversity had a great story line to base their performance on, they were the ’Diversitoys’ and their setting was in Da Vinci’s toy shop. The plot was about a gifted toymaker Da Vinci and his envious rival, Mr Grief. Blueprints for a new toy are stolen, and must be rescued; the toys plunge into action. We never see Da Vinci or Mr Grief. The narrative is an excuse for the Diversity team to meet other toys, their guest-stars.

Aidan Davis, another Britain's Got Talent star, who struts through street-dance routines as Bionic Boy. There's no danger of forgetting Diversity's reality-television background. A video montage gives highlights of their television career, while Bionic Boy fills a lull in the story by reading the book of the TV series. That's an excuse for the greatest hits, with a huge cheer from the audience when they see the team back in their familiar costumes.

There are other toys that they meet on their journey. The female dance troupe, Sugar Free, appear as dolls, doing some candy-coated flirting with the boys of diversity. This made the performance more bubbly and fun, although I don’t think the girls in the audience were thrilled as Diversity have such a huge amount of support from screaming girls shouting for diversity and cheering them on, I am sure they wished it was them on stage with them.

Towards the end of their performance Ashley Banjo, creator and leader of diversity, invited a young female to the stage and sat her down on a chair and the boys of diversity danced right in front of her, she also got a picture with them and got their autographs, I am certain that every single girl wanted to be her then!

Diversity based their dance style on street dance, they used great music and it got the crowd going. However, they did contemporary style during some parts of the performance when they were with ‘The dolls’ but still added their own street style moves in parts of the routine which looked very creative.

Diversity added comedy and creative moments into their performance and as a whole I think that they smashed the stage! It was a great evening and it was a great experience to see Diversity live as I had seen them many times on the TV.