Tuesday, 20 September 2011

The new performance




Quite clever, her performance using a screen behind her to amplify the actions.

The first time I heard this song was on you tube, her performance on the french X factor program. The song itself does not sound like a great song, but Beyonce's dance performance with the music makes it a very powerful song. Her choreography and her signature dance movements go together so well to this. Although her moves are the same as before, the steps used together with this 'nearly there' song comes together well. I couldn't imagine liking this song if it played by itself, on the radio.

I wondered how it would look if I watched her perform the same song at a different place. Would the dance movements become boring or repetitious? But this performance at  Billboard awards threw me. It was refreshing to see the use of multimedia screen behind her to be part of the performance. Again her dance complemented the song to make the powerful message  - Who runs the world...