These are the proverbial kids with buckets o' talent. They've got creativity, stage presence, tremendous energy, and bravura chops, too. The 10-member cast of Be the Groove's Embrace the Fire combine rap, film, hip hop-influenced dance, and all manner of percussion—drumline licks to body slaps—to create a series of tightly choreographed pieces that speak mostly to social ills and their sweetly optimistic determination to overcome them. If the show's got a serious flaw it's the tenacity of that sweetness, which blands things out and makes the ensemble seem oppressively ingratiating (not to say, naive) after a while. For all its passion and accomplishment, Embrace the Fire feels at times like a just slightly funkier version of those saccharine Up with People performances from the 1960s.