The thing about "liturgical dancers" is that they are FAILED dancers. They are folks who can't get a gig anywhere else. They impose on the naivete and ignorance of the priests who allow them to perform.
My mom has been a professional dancer and teacher for 50 plus years . . . I'm not built for the job but I do serious folk dancing (ex-competitive Highland Dancer and Scottish Country Dance exhibition team) and I know good dance when I see it.
I've been watching these idiots prance around various altars for years, and I can confidently say that I have never seen one that was actually a good dancer.
Oh, so true! I remember the squabbling of our Liturgical Troup, that actually broke their group in two. No one could keep time to the music or stay with each other on the movements.
My mom has been a professional dancer and teacher for 50 plus years . . . I'm not built for the job but I do serious folk dancing (ex-competitive Highland Dancer and Scottish Country Dance exhibition team) and I know good dance when I see it.
Wow, that's impressive! And fun to watch! It must be even more painful to watch, as a dancer! I haven't either. Generally just those who think someone from American Idol is there to 'discover' them. LOL. I play the flute and have played with a lot of different things, and watching them not even keep the beat, well, ... I've watched our folk group, not welcome and long disbanded, be decimated by 2 women who wanted all the changes that the schismatic priest wanted. We didn't go along. We weren't welcome at Mass, but the Liturgical dance team was. And the music that "B", who couldn't even read music, wanted sounded like a very bad, out of tune, nasal lounge act, with non religious, new agey music. She found willing teens to fill in for us, teens whose moms wanted to promote them even when the Mass was being trounced and turned into a sideshow. Some of our former members left the Church for good under such odd treatment. I guess the horrors have spread all across the US.