Great dancers have dancer's Aura.
When I was watching "This is it", a documentary film about Michael Jackson's last unfinished tour, a choreographer auditioning the backdancers was saying, "......But if you don't have that goo..that ooze coming out of you, not gonna get the job". The "goo/ooze" is that Aura I am talking about. The goo comes out when they dance. That goo separates good and great dancers.
Sure, it is not exactly scientific. But the notion is universal. Chinese called it chi. Holistic medicine practitioners called it life energy. Martial artists and healers like the notion, whether it is real or not. Real or not, no one denies exceptional presence of Bruce Lee in his films or of Michael Jackson on stage.
I have seen dancers who have the Aura, and I feel fortunate. Some were Broadway dancers. Others were champion WCS dancers. Dancers with the Aura were so amazing, almost overwhelming sometimes. I can be very critical while watching dancing. But when I see the dancers with the Aura, I prefer to shut off my critical brain and just enjoy the dance with the sense of awe.
As a matter of fact, it is easy to be critical to someone who do not have it. They are like dancing naked without the protection of the magic of dancing. What they are trying too hard to do is almost painfully obvious.
Once I read a comment by an old classical music critique/conductor, "I am only interested in geniuses nowadays". My confession is that I began to feel the same way as a watcher of dance.
Feisty? Yup. Sorry about that.
I recognize that this ridiculously high expectation needs to be tamed. By definition geniuses are rare, and the genius performance takes long time of making.
Actually I found a way to reconcile. If we know how to recognize the work of genius, we can begin to see a flash of genius everywhere, like God's grace sprinkled everywhere. In that way I should be able to enjoy watching a lot of dances.
