Dancing Stormtroopers
Jan. 22nd, 2021 04:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ysabetwordsmithAt first glance, these folks are just a nerd's dream come true. But look closer.
1) Their costume designer is brilliant. Those costumes look a lot like Stormtroopers, but have a great deal more room for movement.
2) They are dancing and doing gymnastics in armor. Look at the joint between the pelvic plate and the abdominal plate. As the dancers do hip and chest moves, they must exert superlative control over abdominal orientation to avoid snagging those two plates together and disrupting the move. All the time. That amount of control is just mindblowing.
3) They're not just piggybacking on "everyone loves Star Wars." They're playing with expectations. This part of the act is not fully matured yet, but that's okay, I want them to have room to grow into whatever they want it to be. There are two ways to take this: play with the original content more (they barely touched on Star Wars music) or play with discrepancies (mostly what they did, but probably not as precise mimicry as possible). There is so much potential here, because the world is full of famous visual imagery that they could lampoon in this way.
I would really love to see them continue dancing in more outlandish costumes that are so challenging to control.
1) Their costume designer is brilliant. Those costumes look a lot like Stormtroopers, but have a great deal more room for movement.
2) They are dancing and doing gymnastics in armor. Look at the joint between the pelvic plate and the abdominal plate. As the dancers do hip and chest moves, they must exert superlative control over abdominal orientation to avoid snagging those two plates together and disrupting the move. All the time. That amount of control is just mindblowing.
3) They're not just piggybacking on "everyone loves Star Wars." They're playing with expectations. This part of the act is not fully matured yet, but that's okay, I want them to have room to grow into whatever they want it to be. There are two ways to take this: play with the original content more (they barely touched on Star Wars music) or play with discrepancies (mostly what they did, but probably not as precise mimicry as possible). There is so much potential here, because the world is full of famous visual imagery that they could lampoon in this way.
I would really love to see them continue dancing in more outlandish costumes that are so challenging to control.
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Date: 2021-01-23 12:57 am (UTC)Yes ...
Date: 2021-01-23 01:14 am (UTC)Re: Yes ...
Date: 2021-01-23 01:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2021-01-23 01:07 am (UTC)Most often, I've noticed that done with skirts: hoopskirts, peasant skirts etc.
Occasionally jewelry, paint, or glowsticks are used to highlight movements of hands, feet, or head. (Tap dancing actually does this with sound.)
Also the chest plates appear to be very light, they bounce around a lot; if they could be stabilised a bit without damaging the flexibility of the costume, I think it might look better.
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Date: 2021-01-23 01:25 am (UTC)IIRC they came pretty close to winning as well. Made it all the way to the finals.
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Date: 2021-01-23 07:21 pm (UTC)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyDTb2eHatk