A Hip-Hop Dance Crew’s Frabjous Reign in Las Vegas
The Jabbawockeez, with their something-for-everyone approach, proved that an ensemble of anonymous, masked dancers could pull in crowds.
" In Las Vegas, the Jabbawockeez are both famous and unknown. Images of this hip-hop dance crew, its members ciphers behind their signature white masks, beckon from multiple casino billboards along the Strip.
Who are these dancers? Even if you watch “Timeless,” at the MGM Grand Garden Arena — where, after some Covid fits and starts, the Jabbawockeez returned to the stage in March — you won’t find out. The show’s 20 masked performers remain deliberately anonymous, uncredited in any program.
But this faceless crew can make all audience members feel seen, no matter their relationship with dance or hip-hop. But this faceless crew can make all audience members feel seen, no matter their relationship with dance or hip-hop. In “Timeless” the Jabbawockeez lead a virtual tour of the hip-hop music and dance cultures of the West Coast, the South and the East Coast; a few scenes later, they mime a slapstick routine to the Muppets’ “Mahna Mahna.” They swing their way through Frank Sinatra’s “Fly Me to the Moon,” then cheekily overlay Sinatra’s final crooning “I love you” with the “youuuuuu” of Soulja Boy’s rap earworm “Crank That.”
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