Wow, China. How do you feel when you're there? Is it quite daunting? Do you find yourself having to be careful about what you do, where you go, etc? Sorry, just wondering hehe.
Have a good time in China! I hope you'll enjoy being in New Zealand once you get here :)
I didn't think as example Shadows shows too boring, even if I didn't know about her at that time (I might have not 100% appreciated it at that time, but not boring). I also saw some quite interesting crossovers between modern dance/alternative music, but of course they were most times 3 people and had more space. Just try it, you know it is always the audience/critics who have to say how bad the show was, not the performers ;-)
ok, got now more time to formulate some semi-sane reply ... even as my favourite Korean take-away in Munich is gone :-(
I think one reason why solo shows are potentially more boring is because you are lacking a partner to play over problems in the show and distract the audience while you do some unexciting thing, so it has to 100% work (which most don't). Also to keep the attention of the audience you have to use sometimes tricks as solo artist (dark lighting to focus the view of the attendance and maybe fire/light/sound effects to make it more lively and overplay some problematic stretches).
All these problems are a lot easier to cope with if you work with a partner, so I have actually a lot of respect for people who try to do solo acts.
The cheesy factor is in my opinion not really depending on solo/multiple people. Like I said in my first reply even ballet/modern dance (one of the most cheese affected arts) can be non-cheesy and work with non-traditional works (I think there was a video from the Vienna Academy of Arts and a Death Metal Act a while ago, which shockingly looked quite good).
the stage-fright thing was more for the case that you have an idea, but don't try it out because you think it is lame or boring. In that case annoying friends who can do good positive criticism is a good way to check if you are right or wrong.
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How do you feel when you're there? Is it quite daunting? Do you find yourself having to be careful about what you do, where you go, etc?
Sorry, just wondering hehe.
Have a good time in China! I hope you'll enjoy being in New Zealand once you get here :)
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I think it is mostly stage-fright of trying something new ;-)
And with the visa you can always make a Dim Sum and other selected food stopover in HK.
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and i don't wanna do a stupid show!
hah
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I also saw some quite interesting crossovers between modern dance/alternative music, but of course they were most times 3 people and had more space.
Just try it, you know it is always the audience/critics who have to say how bad the show was, not the performers ;-)
need to leave know,
YelloB
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I think one reason why solo shows are potentially more boring is because you are lacking a partner to play over problems in the show and distract the audience while you do some unexciting thing, so it has to 100% work (which most don't). Also to keep the attention of the audience you have to use sometimes tricks as solo artist (dark lighting to focus the view of the attendance and maybe fire/light/sound effects to make it more lively and overplay some problematic stretches).
All these problems are a lot easier to cope with if you work with a partner, so I have actually a lot of respect for people who try to do solo acts.
The cheesy factor is in my opinion not really depending on solo/multiple people. Like I said in my first reply even ballet/modern dance (one of the most cheese affected arts) can be non-cheesy and work with non-traditional works (I think there was a video from the Vienna Academy of Arts and a Death Metal Act a while ago, which shockingly looked quite good).
the stage-fright thing was more for the case that you have an idea, but don't try it out because you think it is lame or boring. In that case annoying friends who can do good positive criticism is a good way to check if you are right or wrong.