Posts Tagged ‘Dance Performance’

By: Maria Ciezak
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

[photograph by: matt sayles, associated press]
It’s been an entire year since we’ve lost the King of Pop, Sir Michael Jackson, and The BET Awards recently decided to pay tribute. Who measured up to par, you ask? Ironically, the former Prince of Pop, Chris Brown. I’ve decided to write about this video because it truly moved me.

The moving tribute contained songs such as Smooth Criminal, Billie Jean, and more. Granted, I was impressed with Brown’s moves and renditions of Jackson’s hits, but it wasn’t until the end when Man In The Mirror was unleashed that I felt fully convinced. Brown became overtaken by emotion, laying his whole being out on the stage. You can’t run from your demons forever, and this was his time to face the music. People make mistakes, and it seems to me, as is if he’s finally come to terms with it. For 6 minutes and 11 seconds, the crowd, and millions of viewers, pushed the negative vibes aside, and focused on the music.

Man in the Mirror is such a powerful song that Brown could barely sing the words. Sometimes when we do wrong in life, we need to be faced with our demons before we can actually conquer them. This tribute may be emotional, for we lost one of the greatest talents to ever walk this planet, but in a strange mixed-up way, it was almost like the rebirth of a talent still present here on earth.

True performers move you; granted, I do not agree with what Chris Brown has done, and do not feel the need to even touch on that topic. I strongly suggest watching the entire performance, whether of fan of Chris Brown, Michael Jackson, or just a fan of music in general. If you have ever connected a song to your life, and felt it fit entirely, you will get what I mean. “I’m starting with the man in the mirror, I’m asking him to change his ways, and no message could have been any clearer,” — it’s amazing how much songs can actually relate to people’s lives, and this was a perfect example.

We can’t deny the talent of either one of these performers, dead or alive, even if we don’t agree with some of the things they may or may not have done. At the end of the day, BET and Chris Brown created a wonderfully moving tribute to the late King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

Watch and comment. Is this a comeback for Chris Brown?

By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

As I was watching Beyonce on the Grammys, I was certain that no other performer of the night could top her If I Were A Boy/You Oughta Know performance. But I was wrong. The minute Pink stepped out in her heavenly hoodie, igniting her raspy voice to sing GLITTER IN THE AIR, I knew we were all in for a special treat. The song is one of my favorites on Funhouse–the words, the meaning, all cascading in a way that is as beautiful as Pink when she dangled in her aerialist dance routine. And once she was dipped wet and spinning in a climatic motion to bring the piece to an end I realized– PINK IS THE MOST UNDERRATED POP STAR OF OUR GENERATION.

I own every single one of her albums, have cried to several of her songs, have wanted to kick someone’s ass to others, have felt moved and inspired to feel confident in my skin through them all. In the midst of rock n’ roll’s finest, there on the same stage shared with legends before her time, Pink held her own and set us on fire with a song that wasn’t about shallow antics that many of her counterparts often sing of. It was about life and love. And that is why it felt so utterly refreshing to hear.

Here’s a big toast to Pink, the woman who I hope doesn’t stop painting the town anytime soon.

You can watch Pink’s Grammy performance in HD, below.

By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

Coming off a year full of highs, Kings of Leon grace the cover of Spin Magazine, where the group is named Band of the Year.

The boys behind the massively successful (and it took quite a trek to get to this point) band, spent their childhood traveling with their father (Leon) who was a Southern Pentecostal preacher. In this strict sheltered environment, the idea of rock music seemed an exotic idea. When the boys’ father resigned from the church in 1997, the boys shot off to Nashville and embraced their repressed rock roots. And the rest, as they say, is history.

Check out a moving dance performance to King of Leon’s USE SOMEBODY (cover), on Britain’s Clothes Show Live, below.

By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

Several months ago I introduced you to Susie Suh and her incredibly moving music that I had become obsessed with.

And recently, Suh garnered the attention of the popular dance show SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!

This will give you goosebumps. This performance piece hits home to anyone who has ever had a problem with letting go of someone they love.

Check out Kayla & Brandon of So You Think You Can Dance performing to Ahn Trio’s mix of Susie Suh’s ALL I WANT below.

By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

It doesn’t look like Perri Luc Kiely (of famed dance crew Diversity) is scared of rugby players 500x his size.

Diversity recently gave the Saracens Rugby Team some dancing tips and by the look of things, it appears that Steve Borthwick (the team’s captain) is having a warm up session with the tiny fella.

Check out Diversity dance crew in action on Britain’s Got Talent below.

By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

Although I do not seem to have time to watch this season’s SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, I did happen to catch this audition and immediately fell in love with the music (as well as this dude’s brilliant skills, beautiful)…

Check out his audition below.

He was rejected because he didn’t meet age requirements to compete but since his dancing interpretation was so convincingly moving, the judges, well, just watch to see what happens next!

The music featured in the performance above is a band by the name of DAPHNE LOVES DERBY, an indie rock band from Kent, Washington. Check out their semi-depressing (yet without a doubt pretty) song POLLEN AND SALT below.

By: Rob Brayl
For BiggerThanBeyonce.Com

Check out the hilarious video of Joe Jonas prancing around in a leotard to our #1 boo–Beyonce.

Boy does he have the moves!

Bring it back, Joe.

Bring the sexy back.

Get it girl!