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Nirvana y Sun
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▶short interview[CHOA's Short-terview 12-2] "We make every possible mistake in advance"— how a top-tier show gets made! Nirvana Ssun short-terview (2) @ssunstyle
Meet the person before the class. One shorterview and their dancing hits different.
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“The person doing it can be sweating bullets the whole time, but the people watching have to feel completely at ease.”
On the performance philosophy of making a genuinely hard move look effortless to the audience.
Watch that moment →“If the audience is watching on edge, the artistic value of it drops.”
Stressing that a performance only holds its artistic value when the audience feels safe.
Watch that moment →“In rehearsal, every mistake that could possibly happen — we make all of them on purpose. We're the type to live through all of those mistakes and only then perform. At least when there's acrobatics involved.”
On how they rehearse for performances with acrobatic elements.
Watch that moment →“To the people watching it looks easy, but building that took so many injuries, so many failures, so much work.”
Talking about finishing the moves through injuries to wrists, elbows, shoulders, back and more.
Watch that moment →“The motto of the show is to move people. Even the faintest tremor — I want the audience to feel some small movement inside.”
Talking about the core value they chase when making a performance.
Watch that moment →“The picture we have in our heads is a move way harder than it looks. Try it and you'll see — it's genuinely hard.”
Explaining that the finished moves in a performance are harder than anyone imagines.
Watch that moment →“I want to do performances where you can see the music just by watching.”
Summing up her ideal of what a performance should be, in one sentence
Watch that moment →“A time you loved someone, a time your heart broke, a time you were happy — I want to make shows that give you that little stir in your chest, the one that brings the moment back for a second.”
On the emotional echo they want a performance to leave with the audience.
Watch that moment →“You keep tweaking and tweaking, and in the end it comes right back to the same thing.”
On how she keeps reworking a performance's structure only to land back on the original
Watch that moment →“These days I'm taking heels choreo and waacking, working on making bachata lady even more magnetic — more lethal.”
Explaining how she's been folding other genres into her training to grow her expressive range as a bachata lady
Watch that moment →“When you keep placing second, then third, you start doubting your own talent — there was a stretch where I was just worn out, wondering how many more times I'd have to go out there before it finally happened.”
Looking back on five years of chasing the Asian championship and never getting past second or third.
Watch that moment →“It took me a good three years or more before the moves came out the way I wanted them to.”
On how long it took, after starting aerial hoop training, to get the moves to the level they wanted.
Watch that moment →“The shock I felt about my own body that first day... I couldn't hang, couldn't push — I couldn't control a single part of my own body.”
Looking back on the shock of day one of aerial hoop training in 2017.
Watch that moment →“In the end I couldn't break through the aura of the judges and the audience, so I completely bombed that performance.”
Looking back on the 2016 Bachata Stars final — going onstage feeling small among world-class dancers.
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