Only time and the progression of this season will tell. So how exactly does the Street vs. Stage format of competition work? Considering the first episode of Season 12 spent about five minutes just explaining in as much detail as possible how exactly the new format would work, clearly the producers of So You Think You Can Dance know that their new format could potentially confuse viewers enough to frustrate them.
Basically dancers will audition in their various cities based on whether they are of the street style or stage style. From there the teams will compete in their respective styles, but only one team will be chosen. You will only have a minute or two to impress the panel of judges, so get their attention right from the start.
Another piece of advice is to have a couple of dance styles prepared to show them just in case they ask you, and aside from showing your technical skills, make sure that you also perform your dance, use the stage, and ooze confidence and passion.
So You Think You Can Dance premiers each summer, so the auditions will take place around the country, usually in Miami, Washington, Los Angeles in the winter, making it not the most ideal dancing conditions. You have to ensure that you are stretched out and warmed up before you audition.
When you audition you will also have to complete an application form and read all the regulations, which state an age limit of 18 to 30 years, and that you are entering at your own risk with the show or its producers and network not being held liable for any injuries that you sustain while competing on the show. Her thoughts? One of Nicole's favorite looks so far this season has been short-haired Tanisha's slick hair during a jazz number she did with Rudy.
The team got an extension piece, shaped it into a slinky s-shape, and placed it on her part. Nicole also loved Jacque's cascading curls in the hardcore paso doble piece she danced with Zack. The dancers are enthusiastic about hair generally, except when hats are involved. The anchoring needed to keep a hat on sometimes requires pain meds. But it's a dream job for the hair team.
I get to do different types of styles on 21 different people every single week," Nicole said. It brings me such joy, and sometimes I even cry.
Heather Cummings, who's been nominated for an Emmy this season, heads up the makeup team, which includes eight members. Cummings uses a lot of waterproof Make Up For Ever products and Stila Stay All Day foundations for their longevity, because keeping makeup in place is top priority. Cummings' favorite look this season was also the chess piece number.
She spent two hours testing eyelash combinations on mannequin heads for the knights to wear. Alex in A Clockwork Orange inspired the lashes. In one of the more memorable looks of the season, Zack and Jacque's African jazz number , a member of the team skilled in body painting pulled off the Technicolor makeup look, which matched the wall.
For lips, Cummings uses a lip liner pencil on the whole lip before applying lipstick. Despite her best efforts, though, occasionally a dancer will have a lipstick-on-the-teeth incident during judging. Sometimes things are trial and error," Cummings said. However, true to its roots, jazz dance continues to hearken back to the ethnic eclecticism that birthed it. The choreography is by Spencer Liff. Like jazz, tap dance was born from a fusion of European and West African cultures.
In the mids, slaves in the Southern United States began to imitate the jigs and social dances of the Irish and Scottish, combining them with the West African Juba dance.
The Juba, which involves slapping of the arms, legs, chest, and face, grew in popularity after the Negro Act of made it illegal for slaves to play drums — slaveowners were worried that blacks were using drumming to communicate in code with each other with the hopes of planning an uprising. Percussing their bodies, then, was a way for slaves to supply the rhythms that otherwise would have been lost due to the drumming ban.
In the middle of the 19th-century, this evolving style of dance made its way onto the stage with the rise of minstrel shows, which featured white performers, in blackface, caricaturing the song and dance of slaves. Though these shows purported to feature "authentic" black culture, they were conceived and performed by mostly white artists. Lane's dance skills shot him to fame — his name received top billing over white performers, and Charles Dickens even wrote about him in his travel book American Notes.
Lane came to be known as "Master Juba," and is thought to be the most important dancer of the 19th-century, and the inventor of American tap dance. Tap dance continued to evolve through the end of the century, and was performed either in hard-soled wooden shoes Buck and Wing or soft-soled leather shoes Soft Shoe.
In the s, metal taps were added to dancers' shoes, which helped to further differentiate the emerging style of dance from its predecessors. With the rise of the musicals on stage and screen, tap dance became a part of America's cultural fabric.
Its popularity saw a brief decline due to the rise of rock-and-roll in the s, but thirty years later, the genre saw a renewed interest among dancers, especially among black dancers who looked up to hoofers like Gregory Hines , Sammy Davis Jr. Today, tap dance is broadly divided into two categories: rhythm tap and theatre tap. Rhythm tap focuses more on musicality and improvisation. Theatre tap also called Broadway or Show Tap is a much more presentational style of dance, and concerns itself with the aesthetics of the entire dancing body.
Of course, in performance or practice, many of these foundational moves are combined into more advanced footwork and rhythm. The choreography is by Anthony Morigerato. Broadway dance developed alongside jazz dance. When jazz found its way from New Orleans to New York in the s, stage directors began to incorporate it into their shows as momentary bits of spectacle scattered throughout loosely-framed narratives.
However, once directors and choreographers started using dance to advance their plotlines instead, the choreography became more intricate and the dancers more trained. There are examples of this type of dance throughout the s — Anything Goes , for instance — but it wasn't until the 40s that it really took off. Cole was trained in East Indian dance, and would often blend some of those elements into American jazz. His unique fusion of jazz, ballet, and ethnic movement was revolutionary, and it earned him the title "Father of Theatrical Jazz Dance.
Contemporary dance is an expressive style of dance that abandons the rigid, centered aspect of classical forms of dance, and utilizes unconventional movements from styles around the world.
It incorporates certain elements of ballet, modern dance, and jazz. Contemporary dance emerged in the 's as dancers reacted against the rigid constraints of ballet technique. Seeking to move with ease and fluidity, dancers began to experiment with manipulating their cores — a thought unheard of in classical ballet schools, which taught students to maintain a rigid, upright core throughout dancing.
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