Jul. 10th, 2004
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A picture is worth a thousand words
Jul. 10th, 2004 04:33 pmSo, what is video worth?
Got to see some video of our hafla performance, and it's hypnotic and amazing. The posture, the costumes, the dancers communicating with each other non verbally, and everything totally improvisational. And our own signature song and group dance move.
Then I got to see someone elses 'tribal' dance group.... the costumes were dazzling (except the head dresses looked like umm unimpressed with them). A bit more glitzy than I would have expected for tribal, but I can see the appeal for former Egyptian/Turkish dancers. Very sloppy posture, obviously choreographed dancing (everyone looking every which way they wanted, out at the audience, off to the side, where ever), and the cherry on the cake ... copying a signature dance move from a different dance group. Not impressed. Even our students said their dancing looked 'manufactured', and 'mechanical'. Whereas they said ours was precise, earthy, and alive. Nice to get that sort of feedback from our own students that are familiar with the other groups doing different styles of Tribal.
Got to see some video of our hafla performance, and it's hypnotic and amazing. The posture, the costumes, the dancers communicating with each other non verbally, and everything totally improvisational. And our own signature song and group dance move.
Then I got to see someone elses 'tribal' dance group.... the costumes were dazzling (except the head dresses looked like umm unimpressed with them). A bit more glitzy than I would have expected for tribal, but I can see the appeal for former Egyptian/Turkish dancers. Very sloppy posture, obviously choreographed dancing (everyone looking every which way they wanted, out at the audience, off to the side, where ever), and the cherry on the cake ... copying a signature dance move from a different dance group. Not impressed. Even our students said their dancing looked 'manufactured', and 'mechanical'. Whereas they said ours was precise, earthy, and alive. Nice to get that sort of feedback from our own students that are familiar with the other groups doing different styles of Tribal.
