어제 우연히 시청했던 “스타킹”에 출연한 과거의 댄스신동 구슬기씨를 보면서 참으로 안스런 생각이 들었습니다. 문외한인 제가 봐도 댄스에 재질이 있지 노래에 있지 않은데, 현재의 연예산업에 맞추기 위해서 자신의 특출난 재능을 제대로 살리지 못하는게 아닌가 생각이 들더군요 신동의 재능을 창조적으로 발전 시켜주지 못하고 어른들이 만든 기존의 틀에 어린아이를 끼워 맞추는 행위가 천재 댄서의 재능을 꺽는 우를 범하고 있다는 생각이 듭니다. 이런 일들이 한국만의 고민은 아니라는 것이 오늘의 비디오에서 보여 줍니다.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WreMowvvLBg
Twenty one year old Juian Lage has been playing guitar since he was five. I certainly felt that like there’s no effort to play guitar. It’s fun, it’s really fun. It’s stayed that way from my whole childhood. The film “Jules at Eight” give a glimpse of what life for Lage’s life then. People began to understand the talent he had. People would’ve approached me and my parents and my parents were great at seeing through their offer and say “You know what? Maybe sending Julian cross the country do this and be on TV shows maybe that’s not the best thing for him. If they were looking to make money not for me, which a lot of parents might have to or might want to. I would’ve turned out quite differently.
Which maybe why he didn’t release his first CD, Sounding Point, until this March (2009). I could’ve recorded when I was younger, but I think the biggest issue for me was wanting to step forward more than just music. Lage has original sound according to music critics. That originality is probably why we are still hearing about Julian Lage.
According to psychologist Dillon Wiener, making the transition from prodigy to adult performer is difficult. Most of them are unheard of when they grow up be adult. Wiener is the author of the “Gifted Children: myths and realities.” A child prodigy is somebody who masters an area that’s already been invented by adults, and masters are very very quickly. If you want to still be aligned with, you have to be somebody unusual that does something in a new way.
Rasta Thomas is doing that with his company, Bad Boys of Dance. They performed at World Trade national Park with performing arts this summer. World Trap CEO, Karen Jones, he’s very exciting to watch and has brought up field. His music and his choreography is such that really attracts young and if you’re new audience to dance because it’s so accessible. Thomas was called child prodigy when he was 14, he won a gold medal competing against adults at a prestigious dance competition. He built on his classical training by adding moves from modern dance, jazz, musical theater, and even Michael Jackson to make ballet more appealing to his generation.
It was a new lead art form and I wanted to make that, I wanted to
do something about that. And I thought
you know having younger, fresher, hipper dancers, and making productions and
performances are little more fun. It could
possibly be anecdote to that issue.
Rasta and his wife