Joshua ‘Vendetta’ Nash is a freelance hip hop dance theatre dance artist, holding a BA degree in Dance from Kingston University and he is centred both in the hip-hop theatre and battling sector. Joshua has established himself within the street dance community, as a creative dance artist whose movement language is formed through street dance styles with focus on Krump.
Nash's recent focus is to keep creating and showcasing his own work. He has presented work at 3Rounds of Amp (commissioned triple bill at The Place); BHM Live (Curve Leicester); Resolution Festival (The Place); Supper Room (commissioned by Greenwich Dance); Breakin'Convention and Back To The Lab (Sadler's Wells); Rapport Festival (Brixton Festival); Artists 4 Artists platforms HumanKind, Scratch Dat!, Man&Men (Richmix and Redbridge Drama Centre).
Krump is an expressive dance form originating from the streets of Los Angeles, it is recognised for its aggressive and often masculine nature. Nash is uncovering a theatrical way of using this movement language of Krump and translating the social culture to the stage through his work. The different themes he is touching upon, including coping mechanisms of one’s inner conflicts, masculinity, brotherhood and more, are integral for people to understand the dance's different aspects other than aggressiveness and physical power. Joshua is demonstrating how a dance style can have a different approach when using its movement vocabulary to that which they are used to in a contemporary context.
