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Late at night, in bed. Trying to sleep before my early flight in the morning. I look through Facebook and come across a contemporary dance video. I read the lengthy text about this new technique with abstract ideas and poetic phrases, mixed in with a few pseudo-scientific and anatomical words to sound extra intelligent. Then I watch the video and it’s a man on his own, stretching his arms a few times, and casually bending at the torso - quite relaxed.
And so I scroll...
Not even 30 seconds later, I find another video. Another member of this new breed of dance ‘guru’s’, with a female partner this time, working in a studio. Above the video, another lengthy text with the usual ‘evolutionary, anthropologically and oh-my-god-I-can’t-believe-they’re-falling-for-this’ text. I watch the video, and it’s simply a guy and a girl improvising some basic shit. And I mean...basic...shit.
And so I scroll...
I am fully aware that a part of dance is expressing oneself and moving in your own way. So maybe I’m just not a fan of their chosen style. However, these people are not moving in their own way. They’re moving in the most fashionable manner as of Autumn 2017. They’ve taken workshops of Fighting Monkey, or Ido Portal and now they’re selling the dance world an unoriginal product. And I purposefully use the word ‘selling’. Their workshops are some of the most expensive around, and they have plenty! Why is there this big trend to now stop working on, what I can only think to call, ‘macro’ movement and focus entirely on ‘micro’ movement?
By ‘macro’, I mean large, dynamic and difficult to execute movements. Movements that you can’t do the first time you try them. Movements that you have to train for a number of days/weeks to even execute. Maybe it’s my Bboying backgroun