The world of modern dance is distinguished by a large number of new faces, trends and trends, and to stand out in the general plan is becoming an increasingly difficult task. But there are those who have the courage to violate generally accepted rules. Janis Marshall, a French dancer and choreographer, is one of those who can be looked at with a wide variety of emotions - surprise, admiration, irritation, envy. But one thing is certain - it is impossible to look at him indifferently.
Biography
Janis Marshall was born on November 11, 1989 in Grasse, France. He started dancing at the age of 15. The young man has won several awards in the field of modern dance. He participated in the musical Les Dix Commandements, and in 2014 became the finalist of Britain's Got Talent show, which brought him worldwide fame. At the moment, Janis collaborates with a large number of television programs and dance shows as a choreographer, gives master classes around the world.
Style
The main dance style of Janis is defined as Street jazz, sometimes his style of performance is described as “waking”, but the dancer himself is against any strict framework and restrictions. A distinctive feature of the direction he teaches is the dance of men in high heels. Previously, this was typical only for members of the sensational Ukrainian group Kazaky, who starred in the video for Madonna.
Janis became a professional dancer at the age of 16, a year after the start of classes. At 20, he ends up in New York, where he is faced with the rapidly expanding direction of street jazz, into which hip-hop elements are interwoven. The young dancer was subdued by this style. Subsequently, he "took" him with him to Paris, where he began to actively promote among young people. Janis Marshall himself defines his style as "street jazz, lyrical jazz and cabaret heels." In his dance there are also elements of locking and funk.
Popularity
After the ending of Britain's Got Talent show, Marshall became recognizable, but this did not bring him the fame that he now possesses. The main source of growth in its popularity has become the Internet. After the artist began to upload videos of his choreography to famous pop songs on Youtube and Facebook, the attention to his person increased tenfold.
His Youtube channel has nearly 1 million subscribers, and this number is growing every day. The dancer himself says that most of the work he gets is thanks to watching his videos on the Internet. It is worth noting that this is a very good marketing move.
One of the best moments in the artist’s life came when Beyoncé herself shared on Facebook the video of his statement on the song Partition. In a short time, it gained nearly 900 thousand views. Janis describes his impressions as "New Year, Christmas and Birthday at the same time." The video of this production itself was shot in Ukraine, where Yanis at that time worked as a choreographer of the show “Everybody Dance”.
Creative and teaching activities
Janis Marshall is quite in demand in the modern dance arena. The geography of his performances covers almost the whole world. He attended workshops in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, China, Russia, the USA and England, and this list continues to grow.
Janis Marshall, whose biography for fans has been counting since 2014, has already managed to do a great job in popularizing his individual style. As a teacher, he was involved in the French version of Dancing with the Stars - “Dancing with the Stars”, and also collaborated as a choreographer with the Ukrainian show “Everybody Dance”, an analogue of the British So You Think You Can Dance. The originality of the artist only attracts to him new proposals for cooperation.
Execution specifics
The first thing that catches your eye when watching a Janis video is high heels. This primordially feminine attribute is one of the tricks of the dancer. Another feature is a very feminine manner of performance combined with provocative sexuality splashing across the screen. Jānis Marshal speaks most often not alone, but as part of a trio - two of his students, Arno and Mehdi, make up his company. The choreographer prefers to stage his productions to the music of famous pop divas - Beyoncé, Britney Spears, Ariana Grande, Ciara and others.
In the manner of performance, on the one hand, rough male features and manners are clearly visible - muscular muscles, sharp movements, brutality and audacity, and on the other, high stilettos, gentle female gestures, coquetry and flirting, which sophisticated ladies are capable of.
Inspiration
Who inspires the super-popular dancer and choreographer? To whom does he owe his bright personality? To these questions, Janis himself answers that he draws sources of inspiration from the music and images of the same pop artists, to whose songs he then makes his own productions. This is Madonna, Beyonce, Britney Spears, Prince, Janet Jackson. Favorite choreographer singers are Barbara Streisand and Kylie Minogue.
Janis brings dance inspiration to artists such as Jonte, Brian Friedman and Bobby Newberry. The first on this list is an American singer, musician and dancer, who has long been trying on the image of an androgynous man in his videos.
Jonte is an open-minded gay whose reincarnations leave no doubt about his orientation. Brian Friedman is an American dancer and choreographer who also has non-traditional sexual orientation. What is striking is the fact that it’s gay who are more inspired in the work of Janis. Is this an accident?
And what about the personal front?
So we came to the most delicate question that anyone who sees this dancer for the first time asks himself. Janis Marshall - blue or not? Or is it all just a game of public, shocking and daring French challenge to a multimillion audience around the world?
A lot of gossip and rumors revolve around his name. He is charming, attracts the views of men and women, causes an unreal range of emotions, after his two-minute speech, the audience explodes with shouts and applause. For the current popularity, he should thank not only his outstanding talent, but also the powerful charisma that nature has endowed him with.
Janis Marshall is gay? He does not make secrets from his preferences. After the surprise that the world has already experienced thanks to him, the nuances of his personal life can not be displayed. But Janis Marshall, whose orientation partially determines the characteristic features of his style, does not hide in his interviews that he prefers men. “I'm proud of who I am, and I'm definitely happy to be gay,” the choreographer says in an interview.
Perfect look
Despite its immense popularity, Janis is often alone. He shares his feelings and preferences with the press about this and jokingly suggests that his “prince on a white horse” may have hit a bus. In an interview with The Gaily Grind on July 25, 2013, Janis Marshall, whose personal life was always vividly interested in journalists and the public, told what kind of person he would like to see next to him. “It should be a simple guy, cute, funny, moderately sarcastic, someone who will not be a dancer, choreographer or singer.” Oddly enough, the artist would not want to connect his life with a person as popular as he is.
How many girl hearts have been broken since the interview in 2013, one can only guess. But creativity remains, and it is worthy of love outside the framework and conventions.
Life position
Find what you really love and do it - this is how Janis Marshall sees life. Fans, fans, reposts, subscribers, worldwide fame - all this is not the essence of existence. The main thing for him in life is to be fully realized as a creative person and to be at peace with himself. Well, judging by the successes, all this Janis quite succeeds.