Last Sunday in Taipei, I had tickets to see the imported show from Germany, produced by a Slovenian, that implies it is a new Irish tap dance show like RIVERDANCE and LORD OF THE FLATLEYS, and this one is called THE MAGIC OF THE DANCE…
and the dancers are from Poland, Germany, okay, Ireland, England, USA, and the entire tech crew is from Germany, so this is hardly an Irish folk culture performance tour… it’s a new kind of international ehtnic combo capitalizing on the popularity of the Irish folk music/dance trend led by RIVERDANCE…I think there are 10 companies worldwide now…
And it was a great little show. Great music, great dancing, nice audience interaction, lots of applause…
BUT…it looked at times as if the dancers were tap dancing to recorded tap dancing sounds. In other words, YES, tap sync has come to the boards, it seems, and the dancers just pretend to be tap dancing and doing the Irish jig when in fact, the sounds we hear have been recorded.
After the show, I asked one of the tech crew members from Germany if this is true, and he sheepishly confessed that yes, in some cases, some songs, the tap sounds were pre-recorded and the dancers were not actually making the clicking sounds LIVE…
What is the world coming to when even live Irish folk music dancing is pre-recorded, shrinked wrapped and stage synced for unsuspecting audiences? What we watched last Sunday was a ‘‘fake’’ show. Or should I say, faked show?
Did anyone else catch this kind of show lately, where the live stage actors or dancers are not really performing LIVE? Damn the technology, it’s Milla Vanilli all over again. (And I think they came out of Germany, too~!)
Is nothing sacred anymore?
What’s next? A symphony orchestra faking their playing while the entire Beethoven piece has been pre-recorded and the musicians are just going their paces on stage, without actually playing anyting LIVE?
Just curious if anyone else saw this Irish dance show last weekend? I think there is one more show in Chungli on Thursday…
