Slow Dancing In A Burning Room: the real version
As much as I love SYTYCD, one of the things I find myself thinking about while watching some of the better (ranging from slightly better than ok to absolutely flawballchange amazing) pieces of choreography is the idea that if there had been different, not necessarily better trained, but dancers that were trained differently, not competing for a prize and spent a lot more time really understanding the character and emotion, it could have been 1000 tiomes better. The followign proves my point:
This is the piece that Wade Robson choreographed for SYTYCD4's Katee Shean and Joshua Allen. Or, the piece he choreographed that they danced in. The original dancers were Ben Susak (a SYTYCD2 alum) and Pam Chu, cast members of Cirque de Soleil's newest show, Criss Angel Believe. It's just better.
Speaking of Wade and SYTYCD, he recently won his second Emmy for the Hummingbird and Flower piece performed by Jaimie Goodwin and Hok Konishi in the Outstanding Choreography category. Congrats!
This is the piece that Wade Robson choreographed for SYTYCD4's Katee Shean and Joshua Allen. Or, the piece he choreographed that they danced in. The original dancers were Ben Susak (a SYTYCD2 alum) and Pam Chu, cast members of Cirque de Soleil's newest show, Criss Angel Believe. It's just better.
Speaking of Wade and SYTYCD, he recently won his second Emmy for the Hummingbird and Flower piece performed by Jaimie Goodwin and Hok Konishi in the Outstanding Choreography category. Congrats!
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4 Comments:
This is why I can only hope that these tv shows actually inspire viewers to get out and see live dance concerts. I'm glad to see dance at the forefront but I wish there were professional and cutting edge dancers and performers (that perhaps push the boundaries of wide appeal or pop sensibility) highlighted rather than just the same unseasoned performers and tired competition show format rehashed over and over. Viewers need to see something that will encourage them to take their interest in dance another step further otherwise they will simply stop at what they can get for free at home. I give credit to SYTYCD for making it a point to feature professional dance artists (like the Alvin Ailey segment, etc.). But, it would be nice to see entire tv shows devoted to real artists on something other than PBS, which sadly not enough of the public watches.
This is really good TV shows
i love this video - it conveys so much emotion and passion.
Thanks for sharing this! I'd never seen it before. I think I'm gonna post it on my blog, but I'll be sure to link to you for alerting me to it!
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