等不及要看本周的舞了，會(huì)先看劇透。本周起每對(duì)會(huì)多跳一支舞。自進(jìn)入20強(qiáng)以來，Russell始終沒有太出彩的表現(xiàn)。撇開個(gè)人的偏愛，我還是覺得他被編舞拖累了，大概沒什么簽運(yùn)，舞伴也不怎么地。奶舅和那個(gè)并未入選的世界冠軍舞伴都說他完全不像是未曾受過其他的舞蹈訓(xùn)練，由此可見他的天賦，但幾場(chǎng)下來也只表現(xiàn)出了稱職而已。

之前我說Legacy沒什么過失，其實(shí)何止那樣而已，我只是有些不甘心。其實(shí)在海選中我還蠻喜歡他，主要是因?yàn)楦杏X作為一名小有名氣的B-boy他表現(xiàn)得相當(dāng)虛心，而虛心的人往往可以走得遠(yuǎn)。他果真走得很遠(yuǎn)，連同那個(gè)更不起眼的Kathryn一起，跌破很多人的眼鏡。這一對(duì)很神奇，幾乎有了命中注定的意味。沒記錯(cuò)的話他們應(yīng)該是唯一從來沒有排到尾三的一對(duì)，每周都叫人驚艷--抽中的編舞固然好，但不得不承認(rèn)，他的進(jìn)步遠(yuǎn)不止于‘以他的水準(zhǔn)而言很好’的程度。

覺得Legacy和Kathryn有好些共同點(diǎn)--嗓音高、容易激動(dòng)，所以應(yīng)該是相當(dāng)有靈犀的一對(duì)。初時(shí)對(duì)Kathryn幾乎完全沒有印象，漸漸才發(fā)現(xiàn)她就是那個(gè)公布20強(qiáng)名單那一集里情緒激動(dòng)起來聲音就會(huì)越提越高的那個(gè)女孩--當(dāng)時(shí)覺得那簡直滑稽得不真實(shí)，心想這女的應(yīng)該不會(huì)待很久。Legacy也一樣，開始的時(shí)候除了幾個(gè)高難度動(dòng)作外其他部分都偏弱，學(xué)舞也并不靈巧，幾乎被淘汰，入選了20強(qiáng)以后也不被看好，但我想也是時(shí)候承認(rèn)我看走眼了。這兩只放在一起，感覺硬是很對(duì)。套用某博主的一句，you can tell they truly support one another in their crybaby ways，這一句把我萌倒了。

沒想到第一篇評(píng)論寫的竟會(huì)是這兩只。

     從第四季后半部分開始看的，有同學(xué)上傳，我就好奇看了下，從此喜歡上了。一直追著。而且把第二季，第三季也補(bǔ)了回來?？偟膩碚f，還是最喜歡第三季和第五季，因?yàn)橛泻芏喔袆?dòng)我的舞蹈，編舞也很出彩。最喜歡的舞者呢，應(yīng)該是benji吧，他不是最好的舞者但是最喜歡的舞者。
     第六季，sigh~~Mia不在，billy，Palua退賽。。。一開始就打擊我。。?，F(xiàn)在算一下，喜歡的舞蹈屈指可數(shù)。夫妻倆進(jìn)了決賽，與開始我們的預(yù)測(cè)完全相反，當(dāng)然夫妻倆很努力啦，可是不太喜歡A,技術(shù)、個(gè)性都不出彩，但是配對(duì)運(yùn)氣很好。非常無語的是，21集嘉賓竟然是wondergirls，暈倒，唱的還是超級(jí)口水的歌，，只能說她們公司比SM還有手段。我而且我發(fā)現(xiàn)跟她們?cè)冢校脟臉幼诱Σ惶粯幽?，眼睛真是小啊，果真ＰＣ?jié)目修過，還介紹她們說是亞洲NO1組合，sigh~~真丟人。
    國內(nèi)也有一些舞蹈比賽，記得我還看了一屆，有些舞蹈也超級(jí)贊。與之相比，SYTYCDC更注重舞者的個(gè)性還有短時(shí)間的學(xué)習(xí)能力，創(chuàng)造能力，這也是節(jié)目好看的原因。總之，非常希望在這個(gè)show中出現(xiàn)中國風(fēng)的舞蹈啊。
    
     

追到這個(gè)點(diǎn)上，看完10進(jìn)8揭曉的這一集我真的難過了。Noelle會(huì)離開是意料中的事--事實(shí)上她能擠進(jìn)10強(qiáng)就已經(jīng)出乎我意料了。不否認(rèn)她也算可愛，就是缺了點(diǎn)能讓人記住的特色，給人的印象也太平面了。

20強(qiáng)誕生以來最喜歡的是Russell，也相當(dāng)看好Nathan。我是非專業(yè)眼光，向來不太懂得欣賞現(xiàn)代舞，一般上會(huì)覺得沉悶、常常會(huì)看到囧點(diǎn)，但看Billy海選中的獨(dú)舞差點(diǎn)流了淚，也覺得Jacob的舞很美。那個(gè)時(shí)候我覺得Mollee特別亮眼，像是一朵盛放的向日葵之類的花。

那時(shí)候還是蠻喜歡Legacy的，主要是覺得他的態(tài)度相當(dāng)謙和。隨著節(jié)目的進(jìn)展，評(píng)委們對(duì)他的偏愛越來越明顯，目前可以說是已經(jīng)過了頭。百度貼吧里都是攻擊‘史強(qiáng)哥’的帖子，美國人的博客里也不見得對(duì)他有多高的評(píng)價(jià)。B-boy中他固然稱不上史上最強(qiáng)，在20強(qiáng)后的進(jìn)步卻是有目共睹，只是絕對(duì)到不了評(píng)委們將他吹捧到的這個(gè)程度，也還夠不上其他舞者的程度。奶酒大可以少說幾句，與事實(shí)不符的評(píng)價(jià)只會(huì)引起觀眾更大的不滿。

所以說，我很難相信Nathan的人氣竟然會(huì)低于Legacy。對(duì)美國觀眾的口味和Legacy實(shí)際上的知名度我不太清楚，但我認(rèn)為，作為一個(gè)虛心好學(xué)但樂感始終不是很好的B-boy，走到這里已經(jīng)很足夠了，大家更能夠接受。十強(qiáng)的獨(dú)舞中他特地選了首旋律感較強(qiáng)的配樂，但配樂在那段舞中根本可有可無，反倒更凸顯出他在樂感方面的弱勢(shì)。他的表現(xiàn)不算好，甚至不必Ryan好，更不用說Nathan。我不至于認(rèn)定他的眼淚和言論都是在作秀，也不愿意那樣想，但覺得真是夠了。

現(xiàn)在剩下來的男人中除了Russell和Jacob，其余兩個(gè)無論是誰進(jìn)入四強(qiáng)我都接受不了；至于女的，我希望是Kathryn和Ellenore。一直不太感覺得到支持夫妻倆的呼聲--你要我相信他們的粉絲都不上網(wǎng)？

這一季除了史上最強(qiáng)的B-boy外還有史上第一對(duì)夫妻、史上第一次進(jìn)入20強(qiáng)的踢踏舞者還是三個(gè)。強(qiáng)調(diào)得很刻意的賣點(diǎn)很多，Nathan和Mollee正太蘿莉組最初夢(mèng)幻組合的假象也是奶酒捧出來的。史上第一個(gè)Krumper Russell還算稱職。我特別喜愛Russell并相信他自有其優(yōu)秀的地方，天賦很高，謙和憨厚，在舞蹈上或是人格上都沒什么可挑剔，但即便是我也覺得評(píng)委對(duì)他的贊許有些刻意。那幾支淡而無味的雙人舞我始終不知道好在哪里。奶酒幾乎每一集都要強(qiáng)調(diào)一次Russell沒有受過其他舞種的訓(xùn)練、明明大多數(shù)舞者都比Nathan大不了多少卻老是強(qiáng)調(diào)他年紀(jì)小。其實(shí)，我明明記得Russell在海選中說過他學(xué)過現(xiàn)代舞、爵士舞、踢踏舞等等等等的...

不期而遇

帶著海風(fēng)和貝殼的質(zhì)地

此時(shí)此地，美麗如你

——Billy Bell

 

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看到有人說恐怖片很勵(lì)志，恕我對(duì)這種標(biāo)新立異的講法不能茍同。我依然很庸俗的認(rèn)為真正勵(lì)志的是真人秀。盛大，真實(shí)，野心勃勃。

最近在看SO U THINK U CAN DANCE 6。

忽略了眼淚、自白和評(píng)委的尖叫，我只愛那些身體舞動(dòng)的美好時(shí)刻，無論是當(dāng)下最能抓住眼球HIP-POP，還是充滿風(fēng)情的JAZZ，抑或是最直擊心靈的CONTEMPORARY，每一段SOLO都仿佛讓我重新找到童年時(shí)代丟失的珍寶，滿心都是流淌的感動(dòng)與飛翔般的幸福。

最愛的是Billy Bell，那段讓我難以呼吸的SOLO。我聽得到To build a home行云流水的鋼琴樂和回旋反復(fù)的吟唱。而他，像從天空傾瀉而下的流水和白色的飛鳥，宛如剛剛在舞臺(tái)上誕生的孩子，只是恣肆地舞，完全不知道自己的好。

19歲的年紀(jì)，僅僅5年的舞蹈生涯，Juilliard的學(xué)生，無論是批評(píng)，傷病，或者是贊賞，都不能改變他一如既往的靦腆、謙遜有教養(yǎng)，在他身上絲毫看不到刻意炫技的成分和選秀節(jié)目中常見的極端反應(yīng)，而他又才華橫溢得能夠讓每次評(píng)委大叔和評(píng)委大媽們臉上都掛滿愛憐的笑容，怎么能讓我不喜歡呢。而因病退賽的結(jié)果更是讓我震驚且期待，期待第七季里他的每一個(gè)笑臉，每一個(gè)動(dòng)作，每一句帶笑出來話，靦腆，謙遜而不做作。

總之，有夢(mèng)想的人是好的，有才華的人是好的，低調(diào)的人是好的，以夢(mèng)想為名用才華和汗水低調(diào)地戰(zhàn)斗著的人也是好的，所以咱的小Billy是最好的：）
P.S原諒我先為自己淺薄的遣詞造句汗一把。。。

轉(zhuǎn)一篇在外文博客上看到的文，博主應(yīng)該是舞蹈評(píng)論的業(yè)內(nèi)人士，在這里致以謝意，應(yīng)該是在Billy休賽以后，給喜歡和期待Billy的人們

INTERVIEWS WITH SONYA TAYEH AND BILLY BELL
December 10, 2009
 
Okay, here are the interviews I did with Sonya Tayeh and Billy Bell last week at the DeMa Dance Company rehearsal. (Bell and Tayeh are most known for their work on So You Think You Can Dance, if you don’t know - Bell was on the show briefly at the beginning of the season and had to withdraw due to illness, and Tayeh is a choreographer). I spoke with them very quickly, during their tiny lunch break, and I shared the interview with a writer from Dance Spirit magazine. It was hard to get everything down (especially with Billy, who is a fast talker!) and remember the other writer’s questions, etc. (I intend to get a flip camera for the future). Anyway, it’s hard to put this in a question / answer format, so I’m just going to summarize and paraphrase what they each said.
Billy was so sweetly enthusiastic and excited about his life. So much fun to talk to!
First things first - SYTYCD, since that’s how most people know him. He said he definitely plans to return to the show next season. The producers told him he’ll be automatically advanced to the top 100 - so he’ll start out at the Vegas auditions and go from there.
He had to leave the show at the beginning of this season after being diagnosed with Mononucleosis. The problem wasn’t that he was contagious any longer by the time he was diagnosed, but that the illness had significantly enlarged his spleen, and he even had to be hospitalized. Doctors told him if he moved too much with his spleen so enlarged, he could have ruptured it and died. It would likely take a few months for the spleen to return to normal size, they said, which is why he had to leave the show at that point. Now, it’s nearly back to normal though it’s still a slight bit enlarged. “That’s why I wasn’t really dancing full-out,” he said with a little laugh, referring to the rehearsal we’d just seen. Dance Spirit woman and I nearly fell off the couch at this. “If that wasn’t full out, I can’t imagine what you normally look like!” she said. And I agreed. He seemed completely healed to me, to make a massive understatement.
I asked him how he got started in dance. He said he started late, in high school, and he actually began with Hip Hop. His lack of early training didn’t matter for that dance because, unlike ballet for example, the movement isn’t codified. But he soon became interested in Jazz, for which he needed ballet training. He initially learned by mimicking movement, but he soon enrolled in the ballet academy at Ballet Florida and, in order to make up for lost time, really threw himself into it, moving very close to the studio and taking several hours of dance per day, along with his other studies. After a while of ballet, he became interested in tap, and so began training in that too. He’s interested in multiple dance forms but considers his main style to be contemporary ballet.
I asked him who his favorite dancers were or if he had any particular heroes or sources of inspiration. He immediately named Andrea Miller, choreographer and director of Gallim Dance, whom he called his “personal mentor.” He’s worked with her before - when he was 18, his first pro experience — and he performed her work at the Joyce SoHo. He loves her approach to movement and how she teaches: she wants you to experience the movement in your body, he said; it’s not just about the positions, but about how the movement makes you feel. He’s excited to be able to work with her again at Juilliard; she’s to set a piece there soon.
I asked him what other choreographers or companies he’d like to work with. In addition to Gallim, he named William Forsythe and Ohad Naharin’s Batsheva. He finds in this “dance theater” an outer simplicity and yet so much complexity behind it. “What’s going on inside you - (with Gallim and Naharin’s Gaga training) - is simple and yet so complex.” He would also love to do some Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, Jose Limon, Jerome Robbins, to name a few.
But his biggest passion: choreographing. He wants to dance while he’s young but eventually his goal is to create dances. He said with a laugh that he loves “destroying ballet” - kind of bending those rods ballet dancers seem to hold up their spines and freeing them up, allowing them to go back and forth between different kinds of movement. He loves being able to work with dancers and bring certain things out in them. He strives to move people emotionally, to move the audience, he loves having that power. He choreographed his first piece — 15 minutes long — at Dreyfoos, his high school back in Florida. It was performed there at a show in January.
But that’s in the future. In the meantime, he’s finishing up at Juilliard (he’s about halfway through his BFA; has another couple years to go), he has the SYTYCD Vegas auditions coming up next season, he’s participating in a choreographic competition that travels throughout the States, and he just became a principal dancer at DeMa this month. Despina Simegiatos, one of the artistic directors of DeMa, says back when she was looking for strong male dancers for her fledgling company, she found him on YouTube, through some videos he’d posted, and really fell for him. He hadn’t yet gone on SYTYCD.
He’s excited about working with DeMa because it’s a company that seeks to fuse the creative with the commercial. Companies are where artists can focus on their creative work, but commercial work is what pays the bills. In an ideal world these would be fused, but in the U.S. they rarely are, he said. He seeks to be able to transition back and forth between the two. He’s excited about working with Sonya because he was just about to work with her before he had to leave the show. A couple of other Juilliard students are also dancing with DeMa, which makes the company feel homey to him.
He sweetly said he considers himself the luckiest person in the world that he gets to do what he loves and get paid for it.