邁克爾·傑克遜經典捂襠動作

這是一位相信很多舞友都不會忘記的人、一位舞界的傳奇;留給我們太多的驚喜和回憶,雖然他譭譽參半,但小5依舊喜歡他,因爲他爲音樂舞蹈還有公益做了很多;樹大永遠是招風的,去掉傑克遜被妖魔化的面具,我們可以回顧到他很多的經典——經典的機械舞舞步、經典的太空漫步,還有經典的捂檔動作,那這個動作到底是什麼意思呢?

邁克爾·傑克遜經典捂襠動作

  首先引用MJ本人在1993年2月10日Oprah訪談中的回答:

Oprah : I have to ask you this, so many mothers in my audience have said, please ask you this question - why do you always grab your crotch?

Michael : (Giggle) Why do I grab my crotch?

Oprah : Yeah, why? We think you've got a thing with your crotch going on there.

Michael : I think it happens subliminally. When you're dancing, you know you are just interpreting the music and the sounds and the accompaniment if there's a driving base, if there's a cello, if there's a string, you become the emotion of what that sound is, so if I'm doing a movement and I go bam and I grab myself it's... it's the music that compels me to do it, it's not saying that I'm dying to grab down there and it's not in a great place you don't think about it, it just happens, sometimes I'll look back at the footage and I go ... and I go did I do that, so I'm a slave to the rhythm, yeah, okay.

奧普拉-溫弗瑞:我必須問這個問題,很多爲人母的觀衆叫我問:爲什麼你總是抓褲襠?

  邁克爾-傑克遜:“爲什麼總是抓褲襠?”

奧普拉-溫弗瑞:爲什麼?大家以爲你那兒有事!(修正:我們發現你挺喜歡做那個抓襠的動作)

邁克爾-傑克遜:我覺得是潛意識作怪,我跳舞的'時候……如果你是個舞者,你會明白你是在音樂的伴奏下來解讀歌曲。有貝斯,就變成貝斯,有大提琴,你要融入其中。所以你會要表達那個聲音所蘊含的情感內涵。所以,我在做舞蹈動作,然後突然我抓褲襠,那不是事先設計的。我並非預先計劃好要抓褲襠,是沒經細想,完全是自然流露的。有時回看片斷我也很驚訝,我會說:“我真的做了那個動作嗎?”。我是節奏的奴隸,是的,就是這樣。

其次說明下,【This Is It】電影裏某位伴舞督導提到了,“抓襠”動作始於俄羅斯芭蕾。原句如下:

00:48:46 I saw you, you were going like this, what is this?

00:48:48 That's Russian. This is Russian.

00:48:50 So Baryshnikov does it like this...

00:48:52 you guys are doing like this. Same thing.

Stacy Walker (Associate Choreographer) 也在示範指導時表示:

00:48:58 I mean we're straight up and down now, right?

00:49:01 I don't think it's anything except hand moving.

  誤會——“抓襠”原是芭蕾動作

《就是這樣》除了展現傑克遜的舞臺風采,也試圖還原曾被妖魔化的他。曾有媒體報道,當年傑克遜演唱會之所以與中國大陸失之交臂,和他在舞臺上那個“抓襠”動作有關聯。而在《就是這樣》中,通過一個芭蕾舞蹈演員的嘴似乎替傑克遜洗脫了“冤屈”,原來那個動作是20世紀初經典芭蕾舞動作,本來是用兩隻手的,但傑克遜因爲一隻手要拿話筒,所以變成一隻手抓。