I know right?! I will say the true winners in this show have to be the ballet dancers because of the amount of GROWING they get to experience is crazy!!!
Jessica Holyfield
2024-11-02 07:24:07 +0000 UTC
omg...the ballet dancers having to create choreo;;;;
my background is in classical piano and good lord i relate so hard LOL
we don't create, we're copy machines xD the amount of times people are like omg you must compose so well and im like homg noooo don't make me do itttt
MiGuo
2024-11-01 13:38:21 +0000 UTC
OMG Spencer this is INCREDIBLE!!! If you want, if you want to post this in the Stage Fighter Group chat, I bet loads of people outside of those who are able to comment would be delighted by this information!!! Excited to dive into the material you found!
Jessica Holyfield
2024-10-06 23:56:13 +0000 UTC
So I actually wanted to do more research about Korean dance and the taekwondo theory before the next episode and it turns out taekwondo wasn't invented in Korea till around the 1940s. But they do have a really old traditional martial arts called taekkyeon/taekkyon and that was around the Three Kingdoms period of Korea and roughly around the time a lot of traditions around dance started to form. So it seems like the two might be linked and helped shape each other. Taekkyeon is even compared to dancing a lot by taekkyeon teachers and Korea also has something called sword dancing.
The poses in sword dancing and taekkyeon matched up a lot with some of the moves our dancers have been doing. I'll put some links below if anyone wants to see.
Taekkyeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYTkX8Va1FU&ab_channel=GreatBigStory
Taekkyeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO_8UkizEW0&ab_channel=Jade%27sFactory
Sword Dance (Men/Solo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgzm1DC6uTE&ab_channel=LudoKuipers
Sword Dance (high school performance team, the swords actually help make the rhythm): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtJfefdr2Gc&ab_channel=kjkj927
Spencer Lily Sinclair
2024-10-06 17:53:57 +0000 UTC
Spencer you are so on the money!!! This music was killing me 😂😂 that may low key be why they didn’t air the uncut auditions? I’m sooo curious about that logistic! And YAY FOR IVAN not only speaking up but also for MNET KEEPING IT WITHOUT THE Heavy manipulation of editing like they could have!!! Soooooo impressed with that!!
Jessica Holyfield
2024-10-04 23:34:00 +0000 UTC
I 100% agree! If only we could get rid of that random idol 4 hire! 😭😂😂
TheGayestGay
2024-10-04 04:32:57 +0000 UTC
This Eloise at the Plaza music for the contemporary physical and technique had me rolling like there's absolutely no way that was the actual music. I refuse to believe it. Also I'm glad Ivan spoke up rather than let people's misconceptions bite him in the butt later.
I'm so curious how much taekwondo aligns with Korean dance? Because a lot of it does look martial arts adjacent at some points and I know taekwondo started in Korea.
Spencer Lily Sinclair
2024-10-03 23:33:57 +0000 UTC
OMG A RAINBOW COUNTER 😂 or the amount of flips with no pointed feet 🤦🏻♀️😆
Jessica Holyfield
2024-10-03 21:49:11 +0000 UTC
This is an interesting vibe and take! I appreciate you sharing that and if I’m being honest, the only thing I heard that would make the Street fighter franchise better, is a better panel of judges!!!!
Jessica Holyfield
2024-10-03 21:43:55 +0000 UTC
Haha 😂 I’ll see what I can do today
Jessica Holyfield
2024-10-03 21:41:19 +0000 UTC
SAME!
Jessica Holyfield
2024-10-03 21:41:11 +0000 UTC
This show is sooo interesting so far, cant wait to see more!
Gabi B.
2024-10-03 21:22:14 +0000 UTC
ummm of course we want to see an a la second battle! Waiting patiently for that post <3
Gabi B.
2024-10-03 21:21:45 +0000 UTC
We need a "rainbow" counter lol. And also the "fighter' series is mostly shot like this where they really want to showcase the dancers and the culture behind it. I know you didn't watch SWF S1 or S2 full episodes but especially S1 was a really good example of this with many dance crew leaders stating they wouldn't have been on the show if they didn't highlight street dance "correctly" or treated the crews disrespectfully. I honestly believe that's why the fighter series is so well liked by many. SWF S1 were really the pioneers!