Dancing with the Boobs
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KRISTIN SLOAN |
Seriously.
These outfits seem a bit on the extreme side. Tonya?
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Thank goodness for laptops
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KRISTIN SLOAN |
I’m laying low this week. Turns out I have bronchitis. Bummer. But at least I’m at a point right now where I have the ability to really let myself rest (even if it’s against my will).
One of the challenges of being a dancer and depending on your body so much is that when you get sick, it becomes extra challenging, particularly during performance season. You go through it in your head….
How sick am I? If I take today off, or at least take it easy in rehearsals so that I can do the performance, will that be enough rest to feel better?
If I fight through now will I be able to sweat it out?
Do I have time between rehearsals to go to the doctor to get medicine?
I’m really sick but my bosses have told me it is going to be very difficult to replace me for this evening’s performance. Do I get through it and risk blowing the rest of the week? Or make the decision that I absolutely cannot perform?
As I’ve sat and watched some tv the last few days, I came across a feature on how all the competitors on Dancing With the Stars are falling like flies… and most importantly, is the show cursed?
Hmm… most likely it isn’t. I’d attribute it to the fact that dancing is HARD!! Hard on your body, hard on your mind… and if your body isn’t used to an intense environment like that, it has a tendency to shut itself down as a way of telling you to take it a little easier. You wouldn’t jump into a five set tennis match, or a marathon, without having sufficient training. We have to ease ourselves back into rehearsal season after even just a week off.
Maybe they could consider giving the contestants a little more time to build up to the competition…? I don’t know. But what I do know is that dancers are athletes, and there’s probably more training involved than people might think.
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Communal celebration
On Thursday night, I attended the inaugural Choreography Media Honors at the Director’s Guild of America. The entire extravaganza was presented in association with the Dance Camera West Film Festival. Hopefully, the night’s event will mark the first of many more to come.
It’s purpose: To honor the craft of choreography in and on the film media. As eloquently stated in the evening’s program of events, “Tonight we come together to celebrate the legacy of dance in media over the past two years–dance in all its various forms of expression. We have dance created to sell products, dance to tell stories, dance to make us laugh, dance to make us cry, dance created for no reason beyond that of pure self expression and artistry, exploring its relationship to film and video.”
So, continuing the work of the American Choreography Awards, the event honoured two year’s worth of choreography featured in commercials, television episodes, television variety shoes, music videos, short films, documentaries and feature films. About two hundred stand-out works created from 2004 to 2006 were nominated for recognition. Over the course of the evening, sixty-six of those nominees were revealed as the cream of the crop. Among them were some very familiar names: Fatima Robinson (”Dreamgirls“), Michael Rooney (”Jackass Number 2 Unrated,” “Think,” a Halifax commercial, “Saving Celebration,” a Target commercial, and “Flawless,” a George Michael music video), Marty Kudelka (Justin Timberlake at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards, “Transformer,” a Citroen C4 commercial, and “My Love,” a Justin Timberlake music video), Kenny Ortega (”High School Musical“), Mia Michaels (”Calling You,” from So You Think You Can Dance), Tyce Diorio (”Cell Block Tango,” from So You Think You Can Dance), Shane Sparks (”Tranjie,” from So You Think You Can Dance, and “Push It To The Limit,” a Corbin Bleu music video), Wade Robson (”Ramalama,” from So You Think You Can Dance), John DeLuca (”Tony Bennett: An American Classic“), Rob Marshall (”Tony Bennett: An American Classic“), Travis Payne (”Product People,” a Target commercial, and “Commercial Break,” from Suite Life of Zack & Cody), Robin Antin (”Buttons,” a Pussycat Dolls music video) and Michael Minden (”Buttons“). A full list of all honorees is available below.
My favourite clip of the evening was a Nike commercial, choreographed by Luther Brown and Teresa Espinosa.
I couldn’t help but notice that almost every genre of dance but mine own dominated the ninety minute film presentation. Of those ninety minutes, perhaps thirty or forty-five seconds featured ballet, when “Ballet Russe” received an honorable mention under the documentary category. Even now, many days after the function, the thoughts inside my head are unsettled and my mind has yet to be made up as to how I feel about this. In the meantime, I’d love to hear–er, read–what anyone else might think…
For me, the best part of the entire evening had to do with the format of its presentation. The night’s honorees were not asked to approach the stage one at a time, but were asked to stand and be recognized at the beginning and end of the viewing. Adam Shankman, one of the evening’s speakers, said it best: “This is a true celebration. None of us are here to compete with anyone else to win a specific award. We’re all here to simply honor–and, celebrate–the work of all the honorees here today. (Isn’t this so much better than sitting at home in front of the television, patting ourselves on the back while watching our best works on repeat? It’s so much more fun to do it together in this theatre and cheer for each other, instead.)”
Of course, the night was even more noteworthy because I was sitting in the company of celebrities, some of whom have very recognizable names in the Hollywood community. After the special film presentation, the “real” celebration began and I met and schmoozed with Paula Abdul, Carrie Ann Inaba and Dan Karaty, along with the evening’s honorees.
Good thing I don’t get star struck!
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Dougie and Sloans watching
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Dougie and Sloans watching Dancing with the Stars. The judges keep giving everyone eights, regardless of the quality of the performance. Guess they are leaving it up to the TV audience and the beauty of text message voting.
