Should i just forget it...?

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Mason

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Hello people :D , i've just arrived here and i want to ask you a question. I need a good answer, a realistic one.... Well, for a short while i have wanted to be a pro back-up dancer (hope someone knows abit about this), but i have very little experience in dancing. I want to know if you think i have any chance of getting there, or should i just forget it? Right now i'm coming up to my 18th....
 
Welcoem to df Mason. At 18 I think you have plenty of chance being a back-up dancer. In what dance style exactly were you thinking of?
 
Welcome to DF Mason! I agree with Sagitta, it's not at all late. If you are driven and work hard, you can succeed! Are you thinking of ballroom or some other style of dancing?

Twilight Elena
 
:tongue: The kind of thing i want to do is, dance in music videos and on the stage next to the artist with some other dancers....
So you think its possible for me to do that?... even though i have little to no dancing experience....?
If i could, that would be great.... :wink:
 
Hey Mason,
There's actually a documentary on TLC (can't remember the title) about aspiring dancers who want to work in music videos.

It's possible, but very difficult. Although being a dancer seems very glamorous, a lot of the time, you may be chosen solely by looks rather than dancing, and you might get paid no money--or very little for your time. Even some of the most popular music video dancers, like Melyssa Ford, also nicknamed "Jessica Rabbit" have admitted that even after gaining worldwide notoriety, they barely earn any money.

It's a tough business. But it's definitely worth trying!
 
:friend: Thanks for your support guys,... i think i may have a go at it,... as soon as i pass my driving test. :tongue:
 
I don't see why you'd have any trouble getting in. All the backup dancers I see in clips are completely hopeless (including the main artist). They always "dance" out of time and hump the ground with these pushup type motions then they do all these absurd shoulder shrugging movements and urgh awful. The dance steps require no skill, simply memory.

Learn how to dance and you'll be better than them in like a month.
 
:? I'm not too sure whether your putting me down, or saying i need to aim higher than most back-up dancers...? But in most of the videos i have watched (which is quite a few), I often think they dance well,... now, humping the ground..... thats like a move, real amateurs do..... i don't like that. :|
 
well if you want to be in music videos you'll have to do what they want. ANd they'll probably want you to hump the ground and do all them crappy nsync moves. But if you can already dance good, they'd probably get you to do your style mixed in with the choregraphy. so if you want more control over what you will be doing then learn to dance first.
 
naz said:
well if you want to be in music videos you'll have to do what they want. ANd they'll probably want you to hump the ground and do all them crappy nsync moves.
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Yea, even though pop moves aren't exactly 'in' anymore,.... i'm sure i'll have to do them.... :applause: Well done, at least now you have 2 more posts naz...

Chachachacat, Yea i will, as soon as i'm totally sure. Ty :tongue:
 
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