Sounds to me like some of the posters here weren't good enough to be IN the parade -- thus the dissing.
I'm sorry, but this is a very naive answer commonly used when people try to hard to keep people from getting their feelings hurt. It's like the parent of a child (with two left feet and not a shed of coordination or grace) who says, "It's ok you didn't make the cheer squad, you were just better than anyone and they didn't want you to show everyone up!" That's ridiculous and it drives me crazy that that's so common! Instead you say "I'm sorry hun, I know you tried your best. The other girls have more experience than you though, so how about you work really hard this year to improve your skills, and try again next year?"
This kind of "protect our kids from anything that's harmful, we don't want to mess up their self-esteem, they're wonderful no matter what they do" attitude is why I have to deal with students who couldn't care less about putting real effort into
anything-- because their parents will always tell them that it's WONDERFUL no matter what they did or didn't do.
Sorry, off my soapbox now.
Back to the original post- many of us on here who are critiquing the parade are more than qualified to do so. I don't think it's necessary to justify myself and spill out my qualifications, but I've been dancing for over 18 years, and I'm
very familiar with the professional dance world. Any performer (be it actor, singer, dancer, whatever) realizes that it's a hard and controversial career. If a performer can't take criticism, then they've chosen the wrong path. EVERY performer, at some time in their career,
will be told that they're just not good enough. They can either take that and work with it, training harder to become better, or they can whine about criticism. I'll let you figure out which one gets further in the dance world.
We as a consumer must hold Disney to a higher standard if we ever expect to get a quality product. Is the new parade Ok? Yes. Is the new parade good enough? Nope. This parade represents everything that is terrible about current management.
Exactly. Disney can do 100 times better, and most everyone knows that. If you don't, and are happy with no matter what they do, that's absolutely fine! However, many of us expect higher quality because we know they're capable of it. I'm sticking to my guns that it's an old, tired, recycled parade, with fewer characters, so-so performers, and terrible choreography.
If you don't believe me, all you have to watch is the first 40 seconds of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1NSubcS3gk&feature=related
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck6ItlYeIbY (dancing starts about 30 secs. in)
or this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOFcy56bJtY
And I didn't go through a ton of BPB videos to find the "good" ones... these are just the first few that showed up when I typed it in. In fact, I've seen much better than even these that I posted.... (these were all from BPB at DCA)
Still don't believe me? Watch Parade of Dreams- the whole parade, the dancers, the show stops, the floats, the costumes... that shows you what Disney is REALLY capable of.... so why shouldn't that same quality be expected on the east coast too?
heck, want more? go search for videos of the new Pixar Play parade at DCA.....
And that's just what CA can do... don't even get me started on Tokyo's stuff!!!
Well using this logic, I can't believe they have dancers battement (kick) their legs in both B&B and DAWM!!!
Choreography is more than just individual steps...
You just contradicted your own statement. Choreography
IS more than just steps, which is why taking an entire phrase of choreography vs. dancers performing kicks in both shows is not even a valid comparison.
That being said, I didn't notice the stuff from HSM that he mentioned, but that doesn't mean it was or wasn't there.
