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Jan. 4th, 2005 07:39 amGeorge and I are doing this dancey performance bit for the January Fantasy Factory, Jen0cyber is choreographing it, there’s this rope we get wrapped up in which means things could go horribly, horribly wrong - get a loop wrong and we’re hogtied. At one point we lean away from each other, relying on the rope for tension, which means if we’re off by just one beat at least one of us is gonna go sailing off the side of the stage. This is gonna be so great.
To work the choreography Jen wanted to study how each of us dance, so she videotaped us dancing - just dancing normally, like we’d do any night at the club. Watching myself boogie down on video is exceedingly embarrassing and very, very uncomfortable. You know how no one likes the sound of their voice when they hear it played back on tape? This is much worse. Well maybe it’s not that bad, there are moments of "hey that move works pretty well" among the "ok that doesn’t work at all - mental note: NEVER do that again". But I was most surprised that on video I look nothing like I think I look when I’m actually dancing. I guess I can recognize myself in my movements, but it doesn’t really look like me. It’s hard to explain. The third-person camera perspective is weirdly and significantly different.
I get the feeling that everyone in the world would get really embarrassed to see themselves dance on video, just like the voice-on-tape thing. I wonder why? Insecurity about a personal, individual form of expression, I guess. To make something of your own body and then to think you might be examined or judged on it makes us really uncomfortable.
To work the choreography Jen wanted to study how each of us dance, so she videotaped us dancing - just dancing normally, like we’d do any night at the club. Watching myself boogie down on video is exceedingly embarrassing and very, very uncomfortable. You know how no one likes the sound of their voice when they hear it played back on tape? This is much worse. Well maybe it’s not that bad, there are moments of "hey that move works pretty well" among the "ok that doesn’t work at all - mental note: NEVER do that again". But I was most surprised that on video I look nothing like I think I look when I’m actually dancing. I guess I can recognize myself in my movements, but it doesn’t really look like me. It’s hard to explain. The third-person camera perspective is weirdly and significantly different.
I get the feeling that everyone in the world would get really embarrassed to see themselves dance on video, just like the voice-on-tape thing. I wonder why? Insecurity about a personal, individual form of expression, I guess. To make something of your own body and then to think you might be examined or judged on it makes us really uncomfortable.
