Mike dances with Gaga at the 2009 American Music AwardsLady Gaga has a lot of great dancers, male and female, but there's one of her dancers that really shines like heaven's light. He's a Puerto Rican/German/Black mix named Michael Silas aka Mike who will make you melt like ice cream on a summer day.
The pics I posted in my previous entry about Mike Silas are of a very sexual nature and Mike has an undeniably hot body. One of the great things about Mike is he looks as sexual and hot in clothes as he is without clothes. There's something about seeing his buttery skin tone that makes me think of pecans and caramel, and I can't help but want to eat him up. The pics I posted before are from his days as a go-go dancer in Texas, which I've seen tapes of and not surprisingly he keeps it classy even then by exhibiting some of his fantastic modern dance skills to a reggaeton song. I'm making this post to remind people that Mike is a classically-trained dancer, trained in ballet and jazz to hip-hop and modern dance.
There's one performance where his dancing genius is quite evident on a big stage, the 2009 American Music Awards. Lady Gaga performed her now-influential single "Bad Romance" for the first time on National television. Gaga and her dancers wore the talked-about bone accessories designed by Gary Card. Like Gaga’s other dancers Mike is wearing a Gary Card mask made of sparkly bones that really light up with matching arm bands that extend from his elbows to his wrists. These masks and armbands are the same ones featured in Vogue Homme Japan magazine, modeled by sweaty hard-bodied men with abs of steel, photographed by renowned photographer Steven Klein (who is also set to direct Lady Gaga’s upcoming “Alejandro” video). The matchup of Mike’s graceful, passionate dancing and haute couture is godly.
The choreography for "Bad Romance" was created by in-demand choreographer Laurie Ann Gibson (you remember her, she's the one you saw all over P. Diddy's MTV reality-series Making the Band II where Gibson gave P. Diddy's pop star upstarts the right moves to dance with). Gibson's choreography couldn't fit "Bad Romance" any better. It's like she hears the movement in the song and she brings that movement to life. She materializes it. Of course, Mike Silas jumps all over this epic choreography and infuses his own elegance into it.
There’s a point in the performance during the chorus when Gaga sings those passionate arpeggios of the word “oh” that sound like battle cries, and all of her dancers shuffle their bodies in pace with the music, pawing the air with their simulated monster claws, as if they’re trying to escape some cage. On this part, there’s a high point of the arpeggios which mirror a synth that’s part of the texture of RedOne’s underlying instrumental. As Mike Silas is shuffling, he hits this high point by synrchronizing his body with it, by rising on his tiptoes. It’s beautiful to watch and sometimes it’s easy to miss it because of the presence of Gaga and all the other dancers, but often you notice the best things when you look closely.
During the bridge of copulation on "Bad Romance" Gaga sings "I want your love and I want your revenge/I want your love, I don't wanna be friends" and then proceeds to repeat the same words in the romantice language of French. During this bridge, Mike gets on his back and makes a bridge with his back and gently thrusts the air as if he's having sex, giving himself up to something. The way the stage was lighted showed the silohuette of Mike's body from the side. The cup of his beefy buttocks sheltering the floor of the stage like a moon to the earth. To watch Mike Silas is like watching sex, whether he's moving or not, it's the most organic thing you'll ever see.
I think all of that information above will make anyone fall in love with Mike Silas. He seems humble and I heard he's very easy to talk to, yet as calm and quiet as he seems, I have this feeling he has a wild side especially when a song like Gaga's "Boys, Boys, Boys" comes on. The electric guitars that sing in the background remind that “Boys, Boys, Boys” could easily be a stripper’s anthem, whether you’re a man or woman. It’s the kind of song you want to let loose to and let your inner slut out, that’s assuming your inner slut isn’t already out. I can't wait until Gaga's "Alejandro" video comes out, and I hope Mike has a strong presence in the video. Mike is my Alejandro.
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