How To See Better

Dance is an expression of your pain, desire, and hope justlike every other art. If you are a writer, then you share your pain,perspective, and ideas with the words.

When you dance, the whole audience feels what you want tocommunicate; the emotions grow as you keep dancing, and then when you finish,the audience is left with a sense of wanting more.

Art makes you lose the environment for the moment – the ideais to leave all the attachments and focus on the art in front of you.

If you have witnessed dance competitions, then you know thatit is a big scam because there is one winner. If you take auditions and end upwith top 100 dancers, then they are the top 100. So, they all are winners. Butthis idea doesn’t make up for a great show. The result is that they are battledagainst each other. All of them are masters in the different dance forms, andstill, they compete, and somehow there is elimination. This happens until thejudges realize that they can’t go on with such brutality.

Then they introduce the audience voting system, which islargely based on the idea of the person. The consensus of the audience doesn’tknow who the best dancer if any is. So whoever appeals to the majority isvoted, and you get a winner at the end of it. One hundred winners get lost, andone is praised.

Your Favourite

As an audience, when you are watching the dance competition,you aren’t analyzing the moves or the intricate details. Even if you wanted to,you would fail because you aren’t a dance master.

Hence, you rely on other factors – which contestant appealsto your ethnicity, style, and make you go wow. For example, there can be twogroups, one who does old school hip hop, which is difficult and another whichdoes bad hip hop but does a flip. Most of the audience chooses the one with theflips because it is amazing to them.

But that’s the point of my favorite, there isn’t a rationallogic behind that. So in any dance competition, you end up with someone whomyou are rooting for winning.

Her journey seems like yours, and you start to relate toevery emotion you have within you. Her failure at the flip makes you go ‘ouch,’and when she is bedridden, you pray for her. Slowly, she starts to become youridol, someone whom you want to look up to. If not for yourself, for your kidswho want to dance.

You cheer, take pride, and share her success because youhave become a fan of hers like a million others who all claim they are her’snumber one fan.

The Recommendation

She becomes the best dancer, in your opinion, and thereseems a lot of opportunity coming around her way.

You follow her on social media because that’s the currenttrend. There is no more mystery around your heroes. You can see their flaws,accomplishments, and monitor their day-to-day activities. As a result, you knowwhat her favorite food is, what she loves to do on weekends and how she canmake the best pancakes in the world.

Also, you know who is her enemy and friend. At every new releaseof the movie, she promotes as if it were her movie. Of course, she wants theopportunity to choreograph the dance from the subsequent movie. It is anon-going game of pleasing the top people so that she stays in the game. And youhave joined the ride because you want her to succeed even more.

On and off she recommends up-coming talent. It’s unsurewhether she does this genuinely or to have a balance in her feed.

But the good comes out of it. Many new talents are promotedbecause of her recommendations. And at her stage, it is her responsibility tobecome the role model and help others climb her to her level.

And one day she recommends someone whom you know. Notimmediately, but somewhere in your mind, you knew her.

Wow Moment

Since you are the fan, you follow every recommendation forat least a few days so you can check if they are worth – your attention.

The latest recommendation seemed familiar. At this point,you have learnt a lot about dancing because you have started dancing forpassion. And when you do some quick search, you find out that she was in thesame competition which your idol won.

That’s a nice coincidence. You follow her and watch somevideos, and she is fantastic. Her moves are breathtaking, and the stories shetells with her movement is mesmerizing.

And you didn’t know all of this back when she competed. Youwatch some old clips, and there was with similar high-impact moves. But likeeveryone else, she was lost because there was this notion of just one winner.

What if there is a competition where the dance judges selecttop 100 and declare all of them winners. And every episode is just acelebration of dance. Yes, it will be boring because there will be no emotions,less drama, and pure dancing.

Remember whatever work you do, if you measure metric of whois number one in technique, you might lose someone who is power-packed inemotion. If sympathy is what will make them number one, they will focus onthat.

Choose your metric, choose your story, and choose yourheroes. Do your analysis and find the idol to follow with whom you relate andnot someone who is merely the number one winner.