The PERFORMANCE/DANCE thread

[mikeysfan]

Love these videos. Can anyone tell me where the area is now that was showing the live streams?

[vims]

Originally Posted by phoenix

On the TDCAU rehearsal it was most visible. The dance requires short, clean movements. All his male dancers are hip hop type dancers, so their lines are clean and tight - tak-tak-tak (don't know how to explain in words, usually you'd just show it, lol). His lines are also clean, but because his limbs are a little longer than you'd expect, there is a more fluid quality to them. It's really strange, it's almost as if he moves both faster and slower than the others at the same time.

Great description. Faster and slower. Sounds impossible, but he looks like he does both. It's interesting that you think it's possible because of his body type. I've been wondering; His dancers always look so bulky compared to him. Are they? Or it is just that Michael is so well proportioned and so narrow that even super slim dancers look bulky next to him? I'm asking because I know you know of/know the Dutch dancer Timor, and maybe are able to compare the two.

Originally Posted by phoenix

There is some weird androgynous quality to his body, his body is almost female in its lines and he uses a lot of female techniques, but at the same time it is very masculine and strong too.

His body was maybe the ideal body for a dancer, almost like Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man.

Can you explain what you mean by almost female in its lines and using female techniques to a lay person? Kind of lost here. I get the gist of it, but....

Regarding his bodytype. I read in this article; At the time, Deborah Landis says, the 25-year-old Jackson weighed only 99 lbs, with a 26-inch waist “exactly the same height and weight as Fred Astaire”. I know it's common to compare Michael and Astaire, maybe because they had the same indefinable quality, you just can’t stop staring at them no matter who they dance with. Do you see any similarities? Body type? Dance technique? I know Astaire was regarded as the greatest dancer of his time, and that Michael admired him, but I find it difficult to compare them because of the difference in style. Michael seems more precise to me, sharper, more powerful, but as graceful.

Originally Posted by hihipeeps

Simply because he has a spirit, hard to explain... He has emotion behind his dancing. You could call it soul. It's the aura he exudes. That kind of special quality is what differentiates between a good dancer and an exceptional one. Sorry to sound cheesy...but in the end, it's really all about heart. That's what makes him really stand out.

Loved this description hihipeeps.

Hi Preformance/Dance thread people - I've put these questions to phoenix because she's a dancer and used to dance professionally, but if anybody else can/would like to help out, please do.

[~MusicJoy~]

I've been thinking about the Astair/Michael- connection, too.
They both seem to flow gracefully around the floor and being totally in control. But to my lay man's eyes, they're different, too - is it just that Michael was more expressive/sexual in his moves, and that their style is different because of the different times, or is it their types? They obviously have different backgrounds, in what they've rehearsed and learned.