Comments on: Dance: it’s the attack https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/ A blog about political change, among other things Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Mike Plaiss https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/#comment-2807964 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:55:49 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142323#comment-2807964 Speaking of dance, I’m at the ballet. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Lyric Opera in Chicago.

]]> By: Molly Brown https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/#comment-2807894 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 07:58:15 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142323#comment-2807894 Not my preferred style either but wonderful all the same.
This is what Michelle Kwan brought to figure skating. She looked like an eagle scanning for prey during the hold for her music to start. The combination of attacking one element after another and then letting go and letting the music possess her was sublime.
We are so fortunate to live in a world so wealthy that this exists in many forms and we can experience it at the touch of our fingertips

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/#comment-2807869 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 03:53:33 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142323#comment-2807869 @ Philip Sells – our college theater group did “Zorba!” one year and we did our research by going down to a pub on the docks and watching the Greek sailors dance.

Today we went to a local production of “42nd Street,” which features a massive amount of tap dancing, and most of the numbers had a lot of movements not unlike the ones at Neo’s video, but with tap shoes.

The company was fantastic!
If you’re in the Metro area, look up the Performance Now! Theatre Company for their coming season.
The singing and acting was as good as I’ve seen anywhere, although they don’t have the money for super-sets. It’s a not-for-profit “pro-am” group.

]]> By: Philip Sells https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/#comment-2807848 Sun, 22 Jun 2025 02:13:31 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142323#comment-2807848 I was just thinking of something like this in Greek dance earlier this evening, as I was at a wedding reception.

]]> By: huxley https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/#comment-2807820 Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:34:46 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142323#comment-2807820 Interesting. I enjoyed it and learning what attack is in dance.

It reminded me of “shredder” guitar players like Alvin Lee.

Yes, it does take great skill and it is impressive. But if that’s the whole package and the artist can’t get to the heart and soul, he’s a one-trick pony.

]]> By: Voice in the Wilderness https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/#comment-2807819 Sat, 21 Jun 2025 22:33:53 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142323#comment-2807819 the Lead’s use of space is much greater than the others, and spacing becomes a little tight on the viewer’s right

]]> By: Wendy K Laubach https://thenewneo.com/2025/06/21/dance-its-the-attack/#comment-2807783 Sat, 21 Jun 2025 17:19:18 +0000 https://thenewneo.com/?p=142323#comment-2807783 Next to the leader, they don’t look fully engaged.

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