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|  | SINGAPORE: Dance fever hits Singapore as dance wizard Wade Robson comes to town to judge Danz War 2008, Singapore's own version of "So You Think You Can Dance".
The 25-year-old has an impressive resume, having choreographed and directed music videos, award shows, and world tours for big-name celebrities such as Britney Spears and Usher.
The star of MTV hit series, “The Wade Robson Project”, a dance reality television show, also judges the US television competition “So You Think You Can Dance”, for which he has won two Emmy awards for choreography.
As a mere 5-year-old, Robson had already performed with Michael Jackson.
“I’m originally from Australia, so the first thing was winning a dance competition when I was five in Australia, and the prize was to meet Michael Jackson. I met him, he asked me if I danced, I said yeah and performed with him the next night at a show,” he explained.
The dancer-choreographer, who became a dance instructor to adults when he was 12, admitted that it wasn’t an easy task getting the dance students to take him seriously.
“It was interesting. People would come in, all excited, ready to take class, and they saw this little white boy in the corner and they were like, 'yeah right.' So there were a certain amount of people who didn’t want to give me a chance in the first place, but I think, once they did, they realised I knew what I was doing.”
To excel in dance, training, style and improvisational expression are crucial.
"It's important to have your training, it's also important to balance that out with your improvisational expression," Robson said.
"I think training on its own can go too far, you can become too robotic, or not enough training can go the other way. And whatever style you’re working in is really important. And beyond that, it’s about your style, your flair, and how you separate yourself from the crowd. It’s finding the something that’s raw and individual about your delivery of choreography.”
And if you're competing in this Saturday's Danz War, Robson has a tip for you.
“I’m looking for something original, something I haven’t seen before,” he said. “How you are going to separate yourself from the crowd, how you are going to choose a piece of music that’s going to surprise me, (and) how you going to deliver your hip-hop in a way that I’ve never seen.”
The final dance-off kicks off at 8pm on November 1, at St James Powerhouse. Tickets at S$22. To find out more and to sign up for Wade Robson’s workshops, visit www.danzpeople.com.
source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainmentfeatures/view/386731/1/.html |
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