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Originally Posted by Tarik Sultan
Dear Caroline and Zorba:
I'm glad you understand what I'm talking about. Zorba, I agree with your statement of dancers becoming a pastiche. The problem that I find among many male dancers is that this is exactly what they are. There seems to be two extremes right now, the overtly effeminate and the overtly "masculine", (By the way, I got your package today and now I hate you, I really, really hate you! That was bad, just grotesque, why didn't you warn me?!).
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But I did, Tarik, I did! You read my description! The question now is, "What will you do with all the money you saved?"!
I think we're in agreement with the above - A pastiche is a pastiche, be it a pastiche of "femininity" or of "masculinity". It comes down to being REAL on stage, being yourself, blah, blah.
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Speaking from observation and experience with people like this here and in Egypt, there are many guys who use the dance as a way of expressing their sexuality. For them it's less about the dance than it is in finding external validation for their sexuality.
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This could open up another can of worms - this is outside my "reality". I don't doubt you for a minute, but this "just isn't me or my vision.". I don't like dancers who sexualize their dancing either, I've seen it with both males and females. Without getting into a 10K byte semantical discussion/argument - our dance is sensual and even "sexy", but not "sexual".