3.18.11 Adam News & Info
Mar 18, 2011 10:43:25 GMT -5
Post by geezlouise on Mar 18, 2011 10:43:25 GMT -5
You are sooooo right. For some reason it got me thinking of Nigel's other project, SYTYCD. The format is a "rip off" of Idol, but it works so much better for me for this exact reason. In the auditions they may show some pathetically bad "dancers" but by the time they have their top 10 or top 20 or whatever, the vast majority of them have years and years of professional quality training and conditioning. [red] True, they put thru a couple of B-boys or breakers with just street experience, but those eventually fail when they have to execute complicated choreography that one just cannot perform without the proper technique and body conditioning[/red].
For some reason, the audience can recognize the craft that goes into the body creating art thru dance in a way they cannot with vocals. They understand that you cannot create an overnight sensation accomplished dancer by dressing them up and putting them with a dance coach. Production can only serve to highlight talent and training, to bring out the inner passion expressed in the physicality of movement. The same is true of singers, but many in the viewing audience, and even the judges and producers sometimes seem blind to that fact.
Cassie, while I fully agree with most of what you have said here, The part I have quoted in red is not exactly true.
A breaker and a krumper actually won each of their seasons and a number of other hip hop dancers have placed second or third.
Some people are just born to dance no matter how much training they have and that all comes pouring out of them when they are given a chance to see everything the world of dance can be for them.
Yes, training is very important in dance and singing, but it is nothing without the natural ability and the passion behind it.
rewind, slow down options particularly 
