| re: Too much dancing.. | |
| Posted by: ashleylm 05:52 pm EDT 06/27/17 | |
| In reply to: re: Too much dancing.. - kmmsu 05:10 pm EDT 06/27/17 | |
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| Have you seen 9 to 5? Same choreographer, same level of over-dancingness, IMO. What especially irked was that there was no clear separation between diagetic and non-diagetic dancing, i.e. dancing where characters are dancing in the reality of the show, vs. dancing that wouldn't have happened had this not been a musical. For instance, when the band's performing, often people are dancing to the band's music--great. That seems like diagetic dancing. Then all of a sudden two male dancers picked up Laura Osnes, upended her, and held her upside down against a microphone so she could sing a line from that unconventional position. Presumably this would NOT have happened in real life, so suddenly it's a non-diagetic number, and my brain starts spinning. Is any of the dancing real? Are they in a club or is it a fantasy? Etc. etc. So while I love me some dancing, this felt badly applied, in many cases. |
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