"Our own sweat was used during filming"
Dec. 20th, 2025 09:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauradi7dwOne of the much-hyped Netflix movies this week is "10Dance," a based-on-manga rivals to lovers story centered around ballroom dancing. That's not a sport/art form that I like very much. Possibly it's because things have to be so both standardized and to some extent rigid to be scored in competitions that it doesn't look fun to me, and I think dancing should be joyful. But a lot of people do it, so they must find it worthwhile. There have been many interviews and behind the scenes clips as part of the promotion time. The subject line was something one of the leads said. (Ryoma Takeuchi) (Takeuchi is the family name there. I think it should probably be first?). The actors portraying dancers spent a year learning to dance in the standard/Latin ballrooms styles. I don't know what that means - lessons once a week while working on other projects? Way more? During the actual filming time, each of the two male leads had an exercise/warmup regimen (not the same one). I guess the point of it being "our own sweat" was that it wasn't something put on by the makeup people to make it look like they were working hard. They *were* working hard.
One of the behind-the-scenes videos * showed them learning in a room full of other dancers and then being coached during the shooting period. I thought of the "No dames" dance sequence from "Hail Caesar. There is footage of Channing Tatum duplicating the moves of his instructor. start at about 0:26
https://youtu.be/IbIyenSh8fg?si=QsrNsY-opPPDQVLL
I had a brief flash of the grandmother teaching the leads in "Strictly Ballroom" (1992. around the time the leads of 10Dance were born).
https://youtu.be/B4Us9Mq7GIc?si=vKrbiiBrO9ORcOhF
* This is some of filming stuff interspersed with interview footage. I can't find it with English subtitles. It was interesting to me to think about how critical the camera angles must have been - all those extra people and equipment in a room made to look like a luxurious dance studio, which means a lot of mirrors to deal with.
https://youtu.be/FWb_yeUuGu4?si=hupXq0juH9A5hTxk
After watching some of these things I spent a little while goofing with Duolingo Japanese, but then suddenly it wanted me to type the answers. In Korean and Ukrainian I use a word bank but that didn't seem to be an option for Duo Japanese. I'm not interested enough that I would add another alphabet to my phone or learn one of the three ways to spell in Japanese.
One of the behind-the-scenes videos * showed them learning in a room full of other dancers and then being coached during the shooting period. I thought of the "No dames" dance sequence from "Hail Caesar. There is footage of Channing Tatum duplicating the moves of his instructor. start at about 0:26
https://youtu.be/IbIyenSh8fg?si=QsrNsY-opPPDQVLL
I had a brief flash of the grandmother teaching the leads in "Strictly Ballroom" (1992. around the time the leads of 10Dance were born).
https://youtu.be/B4Us9Mq7GIc?si=vKrbiiBrO9ORcOhF
* This is some of filming stuff interspersed with interview footage. I can't find it with English subtitles. It was interesting to me to think about how critical the camera angles must have been - all those extra people and equipment in a room made to look like a luxurious dance studio, which means a lot of mirrors to deal with.
https://youtu.be/FWb_yeUuGu4?si=hupXq0juH9A5hTxk
After watching some of these things I spent a little while goofing with Duolingo Japanese, but then suddenly it wanted me to type the answers. In Korean and Ukrainian I use a word bank but that didn't seem to be an option for Duo Japanese. I'm not interested enough that I would add another alphabet to my phone or learn one of the three ways to spell in Japanese.
