The missus has just rolled in from a show. Her answer to the question: "they should be shot". I think that's extreme but then I didn't see it.
Apparently almost an hour of the show had no music at all, just the occasional ding and clonk, and one piece was accompanied by a continual "nyeeeeeeeeeeeee" sound. Every piece was monotonous and too damn long.
Are there other shows this bad, or was this just an isolated horror?
2006-08-22 10:39:46 · 5 answers · asked by wild_eep 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Performing Arts
thank you for your understanding answers, especially the guy who "feels my pain". to the vote!
2006-08-23 22:32:44 · update #1
Heh ... I feel yer pain. I think the world we like to use is "indulgence". .. how could anyone expect us to indulge them by watching that crap they put up there? Performance Art (no, not all strident feminists) can be pretty fkn dicey.
If by contemporary dance you mean "modern dance" ... it was invented by Isadora Duncan ... Mary Wigman, Loie Fuller, Ruth St. Denis were all in the crowd at the time ... around 1900.
One of my all time favorite scenes is in the movie The Music Man where the Mayor's wife (Hermine Gingold) and her rich friends are dancing interpretive/modern/contemporary dance ... ("one grecian urn ... trickle trickle trickle") ... one of the best scenes to mock modern dance in pop culture ..ever!
Don't even get me started on Contact Improv ... how it got beyond a way to create movement and became the end product is beyond me.
But ... when you see a good contempory dance show it's fun, entertaining and challenging ... when you get the 'ding and clonk' shows, well ... they should be shot.
2006-08-22 13:47:32 · answer #1 · answered by wrathofkublakhan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know some of the people you mean, and I have to laugh, because on a certain level I agree with you!
However, I'd ask you to bear one thing in mind when considering contemporary dance, or indeed any other contemporary art form, and that is that the process of creating this is considered to be as important or even more important than the finished product, which means that the viewer has to look more into how/why the thing was made, and the mindset and thinking of the artist who created it. Not many viewers have the time or the patience for this. It is hard to be open-minded when confronted with such weirdness, but worth it, I have found. I enjoy delving into the background of such things ...
2006-08-22 22:26:12 · answer #2 · answered by Orla C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a feeling you've been the victim of "bad performance art." Most modern/contemporary dance, while not necessarily as structured as ballet, tap, or the like, at least has music and interesting movement.
The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago is heavily flavored by modern dance, and their work is beautiful.
2006-08-22 10:44:53 · answer #3 · answered by Morgan S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think inventors of any dance / music craze should be locked in a room for a month with nothing but their own invention for company, played at the same volume my annoying neighbours play it at.
2006-08-22 10:45:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contemporary dance will be created tomorrow. Otherwise, it's all yesterday.
2006-08-23 10:25:50 · answer #5 · answered by clvcpoet 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋