Freddie Mercury: the musician's famous dance moves
To this day, Freddie Mercury is an inspiration for many contemporary musicians. He created mine style, incorporating art, rock and glam attributes into his stage image, impressing listeners with his Uncommonness and exoticism.
Freddie's talent did not only extend to music: he also tried his hand at dance art. This article will discuss how Mercury found expression of his ideas not only in Queen, but also in setting dance numbers for music videos by taking part in them.
How Freddy Learned to Dance
Like any performer on stage, it was important for Freddie every time to surprise his audience. In many interviews the musician has mentioned that making shows is his job, and he always tries to engage the audience into the process. "The King of the Stage" always liked to do what he wanted to do, and frivolity and charisma helped him bring people together.
An important milestone in Freddie's work was dancing. The musician had a soft spot for this art since his student days, and at the time, he admitted, he knew nothing about it, but he was impressed. Every time he saw ballet dancers on TV, the Queen frontman could not take his eyes off them, and in the future his passion for choreography will help him in creating music videos for the band.
The vocalist has had a passion for the arts since childhood: in his youth, he was a member of a school rock band, and after graduation he entered the art academy and graduated from it, having mastered the profession designer and illustrator. The musician's artistic skills will also be useful for his work at Queen, as will his interest in the high art of opera and ballet.
Love of ballet
Mercury emphasized his admiration for dancers in many interviews: the musician admired ballet mastersHe was a great man, noting for himself the great Baryshnikov and Nureyev. In the era of Queen's deviation to glam, Freddie added little things to his image that made him even more more outrageousThe costumes were the same as the ones used in famous ballet productions: tight tights for performances, pointe shoes in which the musician could appear at the rehearsal, costumes similar to the attire of characters from famous ballet productions.
In 1979, Freddie, who had firmly established ballet and opera for himself, agreed to perform with Royal Ballet at the concert. To do this, the musician worked tirelessly on a par with the ballet dancers; at the performance, Freddie had to perform live songs for the concert. Despite the discomfort and unaccustomedness of hard training, the musician tried to perform the dance so as not to let the whole troupe down. And he did succeeded: At the concert, he performed so well that the audience gave him a standing ovation.
More than once more Mercury will turn to the Royal Company for help. Ballet dancers appear in the clip "I Want To Break Free"In which the choreographed dance, starring Freddie, is almost entirely an adaptation of the ballet "Afternoon Recreation of a Faun. The musician is happy to repeated The image of Nijinsky, reincarnated in a tight suit of a faun and played this role perfectly.
In the mid-1980s, Freddie turned to ballet again for the music video for the song "Made in Heaven". The singer helped the dancers move away from classical roles not only in the staging of all the movements, but also in the suits: The bright clothes became another of the musician's chips, as in them he again combined the epatage and love of ballet.
The dance moves for which Mercury was dubbed the king of the stage
Expression Freddie Mercury left no one indifferent. The energy with which he went on stage and worked with the audience, his famous The movements made him a true "king of the stage.
Many musicians move around the stage with a microphone or stand, or sometimes holding an instrument while singing and playing along with the band. Freddy's onstage moves have become a vigorous onstage thing with unusual accessory: a half-disassembled microphone stand. The musician did various things with it, not only moving quickly around the stage, but also playing along with Brian May on it like an imaginary guitar, grabbing it and moving spectacularly with it to the beat of the songs.
Freddy's famous pose becomes another crowning number: holding the microphone with the stand, he moves his leg to the beat of the music. His plasticity, noted by all fans as a great virtue of the singer, helped Mercury to actively move around the stage and, stopping, not to lose the attention of the audience.
The musician's move, which became a meme many years after it appeared, was first performed by Mercury at a concert in Great Britain in 1986 as part of the "Magic Tour.". His famous hand raised high above his head, his head down and his hand with the microphone stand became best known movement in rock music. On the Internet, many years after that, there appeared meme with this movement, denoting a sense of victory over something.
The 1985 Live Aid concert was also remembered by many for the singer's distinctive movements. As always, Freddie managed to capture The famous chant was his calling card, and he was the most famous of the many thousands of people in the stadium. "Ay-Oh!". While interacting with the audience, Queen's vocalist energetically, like a conductor, used his hand to control the hall. This movement also made him a real "king of the stage.".
As a result, the legendary "rock 'n' roll showman"
Freddy earned his title of legend while he was still alive, and it is completely justified. After Live Aid in the mid-'80s, everyone was once again convinced of the undeniable the talent of the singer and the ability to own the public.
Creation showThe frontman has remained with him until the end of his career: the clips invariably show the idea of the musician and his diligence, and in live performances, the hotness and liveliness of his movements. All the people close to Mercury noted in him the qualities of a classy showman, which never The musician did not subside even when he met his colleagues. Elton John, who took part in the concert with Queen, said that Freddie was charismatic not only on stage. He could walk into Elton's dressing room and make funny talk about the singer's new hat, and there was a famous Freddie - The epathetic rock musician, whose talent remains with fans and listeners to this day.
