{"id":2297,"date":"2016-10-17T03:24:08","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=2297"},"modified":"2016-10-17T03:24:08","modified_gmt":"2016-10-17T10:24:08","slug":"dancers-take-a-bow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/10\/17\/dancers-take-a-bow\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancers Take a Bow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Also at the <em>MiFo Festival <\/em>was <strong><em>Strike a Pose<\/em><\/strong>, the documentary about <strong>Madonna<\/strong>&#8216;s dancers from the <strong><em>Truth or Dare<\/em><\/strong> film (and the <strong><em>Blond Ambition<\/em><\/strong> tour).\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine how different the world was 25 years ago.\u00a0 And how Madonna really took it all on with not only her best musical material, but also with a show that had all the bells, whistles, singers and dancers to push her agenda.\u00a0 The dancers (except for <strong>Gabriel<\/strong>, who died of AIDS in 1995) reunited for this documentary about that time, their experiences, and the aftermath.\u00a0 Madonna, who several of the dancers sued, is no longer a part of any of their lives.\u00a0 It&#8217;s clear that <em>Truth or Dare<\/em> captured these guys at their artistic (and physical) peak.\u00a0 And in a way, it ruined them for whatever life would later offer.\u00a0 They tried, they lived in hope, they still hope, but nothing will come close to that time of their lives.\u00a0 It was lovely to see how much personal growth they&#8217;ve gone through.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a normalcy missing from their lives, but they toured the world with Madonna &#8211; that&#8217;s the trade-off.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a curious doc that could have (and should have) been so much better.\u00a0 Blame it on the Dutch &#8211; it was funded in part by <em>Dutch Public TV<\/em>.\u00a0 I know it&#8217;s a small country, but couldn&#8217;t they find some good mikes?\u00a0 The person I understood the most was <strong>Jose<\/strong>&#8216;s mom &#8211; and she was speaking Spanish!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also at the MiFo Festival was Strike a Pose, the documentary about Madonna&#8216;s dancers from the Truth or Dare film (and the Blond Ambition tour).\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine how different the world was 25 years ago.\u00a0 And how Madonna really took it all on with not only her best musical material, but also with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2297"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2298,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2297\/revisions\/2298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}