| re: Arthur Laurents |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 06:08 am EDT 07/14/18 |
| In reply to: re: Arthur Laurents - ryhog 07:12 pm EDT 07/13/18 |
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I appreciate all you're saying and agree with much of it.
But I don't think that video is relevant to the discussion of new choreography to WSS... that is a music video of Blurred Lines, with the premise for the video being inspired by the dance at the gym in WSS. If anything this would support the argument that if we want new fresh stuff people today should just make new stuff and not revive the things from the past, aside from nodding to or honoring them.
And the choreography in the video is really good, but this isn't an example of the fresh stuff we could have in a Robbins-less WSS because no one danced like that in 1956. So unless they want to do the whole show with modern dance in a period piece, this wouldn't really fit. And I wouldn't be opposed to that... not unlike the concept behind Spring Awakening actually. But that's a specific take on how to do the show now... it's not necessarily doing the show as written. Not to mention that the music isn't at all fitting for this kind of choreography.
I know you weren't suggesting this is what we see done for the actual WSS but I'm not entirely sure what the point was because you can turn on So You Think You Can Dance and those kinds of shows and see exciting modern choreography to modern songs, that doesn't mean we're gonna see that applied to a musical taking place in the 50s. |
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