If I were a judge on Australian Idol or So You Think You Can Dance, I'd have trouble with auditions from sincere yet awful performers. It's hard to be tactful when you've been shown something that's undoubtedly terrible but represents someone's best and most serious effort. This is their dream and goal, and maybe it's not happening for them today, but how do you say that without humiliating them?
Mokalus of Borg
PS - Perhaps I'd start by asking if they've had any lessons.
PPS - If not, tactfully suggest that's the start point to fulfilling their dreams.
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What if they said they'd been studying the genre for six years?
Then I'd probably just have to tell them, without qualifying the statement, that they're not what we're looking for today.
I'd like to role play this with you one day, just to see how you coped when I cried and said "But this is my dream! Please, please tell me what I need to do to be better. I'll die if I don't make it".
I'd take that challenge.
And then when you thought you had it in the bag, I would just say 'It's because I'm fat isn't it?'
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