Comments on: Modern dance? - No chance! http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/ ...or .NET and other stuff that wouldn't fit into Mike's day job. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:56:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: MikeFitz http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-5744 MikeFitz Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:48:38 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-5744 Hello Samantha and Kodie, Thanks for stopping by my blog and taking the time to leave a comment. I hope you understand that this blog post was born of the pain I suffered (and still suffer) from my only experience of modern dance. The last time I uttered the word "Stravinsky" in front of #2 Son, he shuddered, put his hand up and said "Don't get me started…" That evening’s performance was so bad; it has done a great disservice to your profession. Nevertheless, I wish you well with your chosen career. Kind Regards, Mike -------------- I have also corresponded privately with both Samantha and Kodie who were both kind enough to leave an e-mail address. Samantha is a member of a dance ensemble in New York and Kodie is a professional dancer from West Australia. Hello Samantha and Kodie,

Thanks for stopping by my blog and taking the time to leave a comment.

I hope you understand that this blog post was born of the pain I suffered (and still suffer) from my only experience of modern dance. The last time I uttered the word “Stravinsky” in front of #2 Son, he shuddered, put his hand up and said “Don’t get me started…”

That evening’s performance was so bad; it has done a great disservice to your profession.

Nevertheless, I wish you well with your chosen career.

Kind Regards,

Mike

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I have also corresponded privately with both Samantha and Kodie who were both kind enough to leave an e-mail address. Samantha is a member of a dance ensemble in New York and Kodie is a professional dancer from West Australia.

]]> By: kodie http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-5743 kodie Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:14:30 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-5743 i agree! how dare u just make a website and not even know full details! i am appauled. i am 16 and have been working on modern dance since i was 6 years old and now i am a pro and loving it even more than the first day i started. get your priorities right! i agree! how dare u just make a website and not even know full details!
i am appauled.
i am 16 and have been working on modern dance since i was 6 years old and now i am a pro and loving it even more than the first day i started.
get your priorities right!

]]> By: samantha http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-5503 samantha Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:14:40 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-5503 All of this commentary makes me think that none of you have seen works by Marth Graham, Dorris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Eric Hawkins, Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, or the enormous list of brilliant choreographers that followed them. Michael Jackson is NOT a modern dancer. Do your homework before you spew nonsense. All of this commentary makes me think that none of you have seen works by Marth Graham, Dorris Humphrey, Charles Weidman, Eric Hawkins, Jose Limon, Anna Sokolow, Alwin Nikolais, Merce Cunningham, Mark Morris, or the enormous list of brilliant choreographers that followed them. Michael Jackson is NOT a modern dancer. Do your homework before you spew nonsense.

]]> By: MikeFitz http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4531 MikeFitz Wed, 10 Jan 2007 13:27:20 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4531 Redcap: I shudder when I think of the fawning air-heads at the "after-party" telling Yoko that it was <i>"Just divine, Darling."</i> Now if only Mark Chapman had become fixated on Yoko instead of John Lennon... Ashleigh: All this begs the question <i>"Is there any good modern dance at all?"</i> I'm guessing that the pinnacle of modern dance is Michael Jackson doing the zombie shuffle on the Thriller music video. Did I say "pinnacle"? I meant "best of a bad bunch". And re Redcap's blog posts: some of us can sing, some of us can dance, some of us can put words together. Now there's an artform we can get our heads around. (Ashleigh, you and me, mate, we'd better just stick to putting ideas together.) Redcap: I shudder when I think of the fawning air-heads at the “after-party” telling Yoko that it was “Just divine, Darling.” Now if only Mark Chapman had become fixated on Yoko instead of John Lennon…

Ashleigh: All this begs the question “Is there any good modern dance at all?” I’m guessing that the pinnacle of modern dance is Michael Jackson doing the zombie shuffle on the Thriller music video. Did I say “pinnacle”? I meant “best of a bad bunch”.

And re Redcap’s blog posts: some of us can sing, some of us can dance, some of us can put words together. Now there’s an artform we can get our heads around. (Ashleigh, you and me, mate, we’d better just stick to putting ideas together.)

]]> By: Ashleigh http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4529 Ashleigh Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:17:56 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4529 Erk. That should say "posts". Erk. That should say “posts”.

]]> By: Ashleigh http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4528 Ashleigh Wed, 10 Jan 2007 11:16:59 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4528 Sure is a lot of pretentious bull about. Reminds me of the last time I saw Australian Dance Theatre. SWMBO and I were not even married at the time (so it must be > 20 years ago), and it was some bullshit incomprehensible stuff with lots of noise that went for about 90 minutes, including interval. Totally meaningless crap all the way through. Still have no idea what it was supposed to be about. And of course in those days $ were tight but love was all, and it cost a mint. Never been to modern dance since. Mind you, can't understand ballet either. LOVED Redcaps post, thanks, I've been reading it since. I wish I could write like that. Brings a chuckle every time. Sure is a lot of pretentious bull about.

Reminds me of the last time I saw Australian Dance Theatre. SWMBO and I were not even married at the time (so it must be > 20 years ago), and it was some bullshit incomprehensible stuff with lots of noise that went for about 90 minutes, including interval. Totally meaningless crap all the way through. Still have no idea what it was supposed to be about. And of course in those days $ were tight but love was all, and it cost a mint.

Never been to modern dance since. Mind you, can’t understand ballet either.

LOVED Redcaps post, thanks, I’ve been reading it since. I wish I could write like that. Brings a chuckle every time.

]]> By: redcap http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4432 redcap Sun, 07 Jan 2007 10:24:42 +0000 http://mike.brisgeek.com/2007/01/07/modern-dance-no-chance/#comment-4432 Heh. Makes me think of an article I read about Yoko Ono exploring her relationship to a chair as a piece of performance art. She sat on it, she put it on her head, turned it upside down and walked around it, she talked about what the chair meant to her. Sheesh. Heh. Makes me think of an article I read about Yoko Ono exploring her relationship to a chair as a piece of performance art. She sat on it, she put it on her head, turned it upside down and walked around it, she talked about what the chair meant to her. Sheesh.

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