On June 10, I went back to the movies.
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jon M. Chu’s In The Heights hit theaters and HBO Max on Friday, but finally seeing it confirmed what I suspected since the very first trailers debuted online: For In The Heights, Hollywood went Bollywood.
I have waxed about Indian movie musicals at length on this website and others, but in recent years — especially since Aladdin — my frustration grew with Hollywood’s failure to realize the same potential in its own live-action musicals. I’ve run into this in my own experience as a part-time dancer, creating videos with various other performers and companies. Performance is different for an audience than a camera, right down to singing live versus lip-sync. Video choreography is often more intense since dancers can rest in between takes and only perform small sections at a time. Read more…
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