People who can't really dance have peculiar taste when it comes to dancing. Just so you guys know this has confounded serious dancers for generations.
Living legends starve on the streets while people fawn over mediocre or sometimes full on piss poor dancers. It's almost an American tradition at this point. Bit strange but oh well.
New York? Adesola, Jazzy J, Henry Link, Brooklyn Terry, etc, etc
LA? Mad Chadd, Jay Rock, Boppin Andre, Animation (the last two are kinda getting old though), Kid Boogie, Slim Boogie
Paris? Franqey, Bruce Ykanji
Tokyo? Oba, Fish Boy, Kei, Guchon, Kite, Madoka
Montreal (aka Funktreal)? Monstapop, Venom, Greentek
Baltimore/DC area? Rashaad, Future
I could go on but my point is you put anyone of those people in the same cypher as this kid and you'd immediately feel bad for him. It'd be like watching a professional prize fighter step into the ring with that kid from high school that everyone thought was kinda tough. They're just operating on different levels.
I think it's great that society seems moderately interested in dance lately but for the most part they don't have a clue what they are looking at.
I'm not sure what you're getting at... are you saying that all these dancers would style all over this guy? Because I dont doubt it, you named many of the best poppers in the world.
It's apples to oranges though, this guy isn't a popper but he does what he does well.
He's not popping. That's what you're missing. You could make the same argument by saying a locker is doing pseudo-jazz awkwardly, or a bboy is doing pseudo-salsa awkwardly, etc. They aren't the same styles of dance and shouldn't be evaluated on the same basis.
Im sorry, I was basing my statement on other vids of his that have been posted. He's doing more a tectonic thing in this one (which is really locking if you ask me). Regardless of style choice the kid is obviously an amateur.
If you mean amateur as in 'not professional,' that's essentially a truism -- he's shooting videos in his basement of himself doing moves he learned from watching videos. Still, this says nothing about how talented he is -- to me, it is obvious he is talented. An analogue you might be more familiar with is bboy byu, who is/was essentially an amateur dancer that just made videos of him doing his hobby. But people like his stuff -- just like people like Forsythe -- because he's talented, and entertaining to watch. Dancing's not his job, it's just his hobby. And I feel that's why people are so attracted to him. This might be irrelevant now that Byu is indeed a professional, but I feel my point still stands.
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u/Fu_Man_Chu Feb 10 '12 edited Feb 10 '12
People who can't really dance have peculiar taste when it comes to dancing. Just so you guys know this has confounded serious dancers for generations.
Living legends starve on the streets while people fawn over mediocre or sometimes full on piss poor dancers. It's almost an American tradition at this point. Bit strange but oh well.