舞魅天下第六季

不期而遇

带着海风和贝壳的质地

此时此地，美丽如你

——Billy Bell

 

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看到有人说恐怖片很励志，恕我对这种标新立异的讲法不能苟同。我依然很庸俗的认为真正励志的是真人秀。盛大，真实，野心勃勃。

最近在看SO U THINK U CAN DANCE 6。

忽略了眼泪、自白和评委的尖叫，我只爱那些身体舞动的美好时刻，无论是当下最能抓住眼球HIP-POP，还是充满风情的JAZZ，抑或是最直击心灵的CONTEMPORARY，每一段SOLO都仿佛让我重新找到童年时代丢失的珍宝，满心都是流淌的感动与飞翔般的幸福。

最爱的是Billy Bell，那段让我难以呼吸的SOLO。我听得到To build a home行云流水的钢琴乐和回旋反复的吟唱。而他，像从天空倾泻而下的流水和白色的飞鸟，宛如刚刚在舞台上诞生的孩子，只是恣肆地舞，完全不知道自己的好。

19岁的年纪，仅仅5年的舞蹈生涯，Juilliard的学生，无论是批评，伤病，或者是赞赏，都不能改变他一如既往的腼腆、谦逊有教养，在他身上丝毫看不到刻意炫技的成分和选秀节目中常见的极端反应，而他又才华横溢得能够让每次评委大叔和评委大妈们脸上都挂满爱怜的笑容，怎么能让我不喜欢呢。而因病退赛的结果更是让我震惊且期待，期待第七季里他的每一个笑脸，每一个动作，每一句带笑出来话，腼腆，谦逊而不做作。

总之，有梦想的人是好的，有才华的人是好的，低调的人是好的，以梦想为名用才华和汗水低调地战斗着的人也是好的，所以咱的小Billy是最好的：）
P.S原谅我先为自己浅薄的遣词造句汗一把。。。

转一篇在外文博客上看到的文，博主应该是舞蹈评论的业内人士，在这里致以谢意，应该是在Billy休赛以后，给喜欢和期待Billy的人们

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.

SYTYCD S6还没正式比赛就坏消息不断

Alex Wang根本就没出现也就算了

Paula拒绝进入20强去拍电影也就算了

Mia偏偏这个时候要离开

Billy Bell 竟然又生病不得不退赛

秋季档搞成这样

还说要把第五季踩在脚底下呢

真是多事之秋

 

希望接下来的比赛顺风顺水

还有就是Billy第七季一定要回来啊！！！

不过姐妹情萝莉二人组和肌肉猛男夫妻档倒是都平安进TOP20了，评委们无情也慢慢转成有情了（其实是Paula退出20强变相赠送了女生名额）。

期待这季的比赛能很精彩吧！至少比第五季精彩吧！美国观众不要再胡乱投票了！

对了还有Evan的老哥在拉斯维加斯周就被无情地淘汰了，是给Evan看呢吧！丫让你上季进TOP4，这季TOP20有三个踢踏舞者，就是没有你老哥，估计是评委们在他老哥身上发现了Evan的影子。。。



冠军已经出来了，反正这季很杯具。失望死了。
等过段时间把名次整理出来。

等不及要看本周的舞了，會先看劇透。本周起每對會多跳一支舞。自進入20強以來，Russell始終沒有太出彩的表現。撇開個人的偏愛，我還是覺得他被編舞拖累了，大概沒什么簽運，舞伴也不怎么地。奶舅和那個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練，由此可見他的天賦，但幾場下來也只表現出了稱職而已。

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

覺得Legacy和Kathryn有好些共同點--嗓音高、容易激動，所以應該是相當有靈犀的一對。初時對Kathryn幾乎完全沒有印象，漸漸才發現她就是那個公布20強名單那一集里情緒激動起來聲音就會越提越高的那個女孩--當時覺得那簡直滑稽得不真實，心想這女的應該不會待很久。Legacy也一樣，開始的時候除了幾個高難度動作外其他部分都偏弱，學舞也并不靈巧，幾乎被淘汰，入選了20強以后也不被看好，但我想也是時候承認我看走眼了。這兩只放在一起，感覺硬是很對。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。

沒想到第一篇評論寫的竟會是這兩只。

     从第四季后半部分开始看的，有同学上传，我就好奇看了下，从此喜欢上了。一直追着。而且把第二季，第三季也补了回来。总的来说，还是最喜欢第三季和第五季，因为有很多感动我的舞蹈，编舞也很出彩。最喜欢的舞者呢，应该是benji吧，他不是最好的舞者但是最喜欢的舞者。
     第六季，sigh~~Mia不在，billy，Palua退赛。。。一开始就打击我。。。现在算一下，喜欢的舞蹈屈指可数。夫妻俩进了决赛，与开始我们的预测完全相反，当然夫妻俩很努力啦，可是不太喜欢A,技术、个性都不出彩，但是配对运气很好。非常无语的是，21集嘉宾竟然是wondergirls，晕倒，唱的还是超级口水的歌，，只能说她们公司比SM还有手段。我而且我发现跟她们在ＰＣ国的样子咋不太一样呢，眼睛真是小啊，果真ＰＣ节目修过，还介绍她们说是亚洲NO1组合，sigh~~真丢人。
    国内也有一些舞蹈比赛，记得我还看了一届，有些舞蹈也超级赞。与之相比，SYTYCDC更注重舞者的个性还有短时间的学习能力，创造能力，这也是节目好看的原因。总之，非常希望在这个show中出现中国风的舞蹈啊。
    
     

看到很多评论对夫妻档无爱！！！可我就是异常喜欢A！！

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当然，其实A的个性真的不突出。也许因为我是直接从e15开始看的，开场就是她和jacob的那个hip-hop，太帅了！！根本想不到A是跳拉丁的……

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跟很多人相反的是，怎么看ellenore都无法顺眼，不喜欢她在每个舞蹈里都要加上自己脖子的动作，总觉得像在看耍猴……

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为什么要淘汰molly和nathan！！！！！！！！我觉得8进6的那场，molly跳的比ellenore好的多的多了！观众都是瞎子啊tmd！！还有就是ryan啊，居然能进6啊，虽然我挺喜欢夫妻档，可他的技术和个性真的差很多啊！！

nathan好像在之前就被淘汰了，但我觉得被淘汰那次他的solo异常精彩，不过不太喜欢他每次跳完以后总要摆个苦瓜脸啊！！！

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真没想到第一是russel！！！jacob多好啊！！！！！

ps个人感受：好像跳现代舞的舞者都有很强的可塑性。russel真是个特例……
个人还是最喜欢hip-hop和拉丁，其次是jazz和百老汇。

I love Jakob at the very first sight. He looks like adam from the moive <Adam>. He is hard working, pure, dedicated, kind-hearted, selfless, and when he dances, oh man, he can't be more perfect. He loves dance. He is a dance machine.