IMPRESSIVE DANCE ROUTINE OVERSHADOWED BY MENTAL IMAGE OF THEM PRACTICING
Local audience members of an impressive and intricate dance routine reveals, while they were impressed by the display of skill, the mental image of the group practicing together in their spare time kind of ruins it.
‘When I think of those dancers putting on shoes, getting dropped off at a studio, removing their shoes, standing in front of a mirror, counting and going through each step slowly and sequentially, eventually perfecting the routine, marking the performance down on the calendar, waking up on the day, putting on shoes, getting dropped off at the mall, waiting for a queue, and then performing the whole thing, I can’t help but cringe a little,’ said an anonymous audience member. And they’re right!
Who among us hasn’t been in the audience of some live performance and pictured everyone practicing in their time off, making mistakes, and having petty arguments out of frustration, and wished they could see that instead?
In the great cringe-awakening we find ourselves in, it’s important we never do anything that allows strangers to picture us in probable cringe territory.
Imagine if everyone in the audience at Christian’s Tailgate could also see a montage of you practicing your karaoke performance of ‘My Way’ by Frank Sinatra? Don’t you think that would ruin the cool casual-ness of your totally stellar nonchalant performance right now? Guess what? Everyone is picturing it.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kolin Miller is a writer in South Bend, Indiana, by way of Texas. His satire runs on his Substack, Possim Kingdom.
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