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Friday 8 February 2013

Creepy Clowns

Ok so it might be the opinion of some that all clowns are creepy, Coulrophobia after all is rather common. 

In the context of Waacking, I will argue that there is a sliding scale of creepiness and a room full of people chanting (rather breathily at that) "ha. ha. ha. ha. haa haa" to keep in time with the music, does not a sexy dancer make, as Prince and @MlleGinger with her creative combination skills intended,  but rather a creepy sounding clown. 

Thankfully the track, "sexy dancer", itself is sick, in the cool sense, not the eww sense, so with the volume turned up and the focus on the limbs of the Waackers in the room, not their vocal chords, the effect of the combination was dramatically fierce rather than dramatically terrifying.    

Despite the trials and tribulations it had to overcome, the combination was a great one, incorporating all major aspects of waacking (arms, footwork, posing etc.) in one - like one great big 'dentistsworstnightmare' bag of pick and mix. This is something that is key to any freestyle and thus something that should be practiced....especially if you're like me and rather dyspraxic fantastic. 

This is because, if you are, as soon as you try and think of multiple parts of the body moving at speed simultaneously in ways that are not necessarily related to one another, the result is likely (100% likely in the example of me on Thursday night) to be a near-gauging incident where a two-armed reversed waack-attack very nearly became rather more gruesome than it was ever intended to be!!!

I guess that's why we evolved to have two eyes, not so that they could work together and create an averaged balanced image that helps with all sorts of useful things like depth-perception, but so you have a spare ... just in case waack happens.

(from around 1.30)

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