#idk im just imagining something that feeds my historical research itch lmao i'm pretty transparent

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just for fun, how would you stage taemin's waiting for? since he didn't perform it, i've seen many ppl here giving their takes, i want to know yours^^

oh HO what a question!!! hmmmmmmm

i think what i'd want to do with waiting for is to play up the dream elements that are in the lyrics. there' a lot of talk of appearing/disappearing trying to keep hold of something intangible etc, and so i'd either want to do something like what they did in film : kai for hello stranger, with the laser projector and smoke, OR in a more elabourate idea for actual performance, i'd want to build a whole bedroom setup and use pepper's ghost to create an illusion where he would actually be dancing with a 'ghost' (actually a projection of another dancer offstage. here's a demo of a group imitating the effect at the first theatre it was performed in in 1862, it's a very old style of optical illustion that uses a glass + light setup that can be done totally live and with no digital! the stage setup is pretty elabourate and although you can do it with much more sophisticated technology now (it's the same technique that was used to create 'hologram' tupac) so in theory one could do it at large venue like taemin's concerts normally are at, but actually what i would want to do is do a full staging of both parts of ngda like they were a play or an opera, and in a european style theatre with a smaller audience where you could actually do the whole technique the traditional way. one of the things that taemin really likes doing with his concerts is investing in new and unusual stage tech, and personally i think it would be a really interesting artistic challenge for him to use only OLD stage tech and to be constricted by the physical limitations of it. we've come to associate him with big arena shows and big spectacle in the last year and change before he left, and i want to pare all of that down and give him a chance to really flex both his performance and also how high concept his work really is.

#kpop questions #taemin meta #a thing i've always kind of wanted to do is to stage both albums like they were a show and negotiate how you would work them all together #with all the existing choreo etc etc #personally i'm not sure he would ever do something like this bc i dont think scale is usually a part of his artistic metric in this way #since he's been so big for so long #but i think there's something potentially really interesting in removing his particular narrative out of that large scale context #bc you could make some really interesting parallels to sarah bernhardt #and ALSO it would give more ability to facilitate the use of traditional kr performance techniques #that don't always fit with kpop styles of performing #idk im just imagining something that feeds my historical research itch lmao i'm pretty transparent #spiritually it's kind of the same idea as jonghyun's the agit shows if you know what i mean #anyways. great question thank you 10/10 #text #answers