On dance competitions
Apr. 16th, 2005 02:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blodeueddWhy do they dress them like pocket sluts? Why?! Come on, micro-shorts, a teeny-tiny hot pink bikini top and a black fishnet tank on a seven-year-old?
It's obvious these other schools have hardcore competition teams, but watching the jazz, it seems all the same. They all have sparkly, stretchy jazz costumes (and if you've ever flipped through a dance costume catalogue, you know what I mean) and the dances seem designed to show off how high the kids can kick. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but when it's just three minutes of jumping and kicking, it gets dull.
There was a solo (in the "other" category, which means it's neither jazz nor ballet nor acrobatic but maybe a little bit of everything) obviously designed just because the girl could do Cirque du Soleil-style contortions. The touble was, it had absolutely nothing to do with the music. She spent most of the time slowly rolling around on the floor while the music boom-boomed away. And when she did get up, every stag leap was followed by a roll on the floor, which leads me to believe that maybe she can't actually land them properly.
It's obvious these other schools have hardcore competition teams, but watching the jazz, it seems all the same. They all have sparkly, stretchy jazz costumes (and if you've ever flipped through a dance costume catalogue, you know what I mean) and the dances seem designed to show off how high the kids can kick. Which is not a bad thing in itself, but when it's just three minutes of jumping and kicking, it gets dull.
There was a solo (in the "other" category, which means it's neither jazz nor ballet nor acrobatic but maybe a little bit of everything) obviously designed just because the girl could do Cirque du Soleil-style contortions. The touble was, it had absolutely nothing to do with the music. She spent most of the time slowly rolling around on the floor while the music boom-boomed away. And when she did get up, every stag leap was followed by a roll on the floor, which leads me to believe that maybe she can't actually land them properly.
