Rihanna's Super Bowl Final Halftime Show 2023
Choreographer: Parris Goebe
Maybe this blog is starting in the wrong place, at Rihanna's Super Bowl Final Halftime Show 2023, although I have to say that mainstream doesn't scare me. I actually enjoy its lack of pretension, which doesn't intend to take us beyond what we see. No metaphors.
I use this performance to point out the power of dance and its ability to make us all equal, in the best sense of the word. The choreography is quite simple and does not try to show too much technical skills. It is executed in perfect and almost permanent synchronicity. All the dancers wear identical costumes, and only in a couple of shots are we able to distinguish female from male dancers. Towards the end, a mass of performers take over the stadium, as if to ask us: “When the f*** are you going to join us?”
Dance is not an art form reserved for those trained and specialised. Much otherwise, belongs to all of us. It belongs to the street dancers who improvise in the middle of the local square and teach others their latest moves, and to the seniors who get together to dance to the songs they used to dance to when they were young. And, as see, it also belongs to pregnant women.
If there is a body, there is dancing. The goal is just to have fun. That is, there’s no goal at all.
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