Madonna's "Truth Or Dare" Changed A Generation Of Gay People; The Director Takes Us Behind The Scenes

[patriziagucci 15]

Dance Legends?

They make A cheap documentary about being Madonna's backup dancers about 25 years ago.

That's what all they got.

 

But you keep calling them as Dance Legends. haha.

Oh yeah, Dogs and Cows are legends too. Because it seem like everything is legends in nowadays. ;)

 

 

And it's really funny to see that you keep bring that "cloud campos."

 

So you make a delusional decision all by yourself that I'm the fan of cloud whatever no one care thing? LMAO

 

"I was the Madonna's backup dancers at 25 years ago and that's all I got in my life" backup dancers and their delusional and desperate A one fan.

Deserve each other.

 

You are truly pathetic, and your disrespect for what they have done is astonishing. People like you truly ruin this fandom.

[groovyguy 63,856]

Can't wait to see the documentary!

[patriziagucci 15]

Can't wait to see the documentary!

 

They are all legends!! What they did with Madonna was truly larger than life and it will live forever.

[Madame Madonna 4,107]

You are truly pathetic, and your disrespect for what they have done is astonishing. People like you truly ruin this fandom.

 

Oh poor delusional thing. you seem really mad and angry. 

 

Calm down!

We are just talking about "Nobody" here. Do not acting like headless chicken.

Relax!

LOL

[patriziagucci 15]

Oh poor delusional thing. you seem really mad and angry. 

 

Calm down!

We are just talking about "Nobody" here. Do not acting like headless chicken.

Relax!

LOL

 

Nobody?? They appeared in the most famous world tour of all time, one of the most famous videos of all time, and as I said, what they've done will live forever. You are just too ignorant to properly grasp it.

[Fighter 28,798]

This whole conversation is ridiculous. If you don't like the same things then just let it go. 

 

I'm sure Madonna would be appalled at fans insulting the talent she has worked with, they probably wouldnt be famous without her, but she wouldn't be where she is without the talent she was lucky to find around her. Respect that. I'm sure she does.

[Madame Madonna 4,107]

Nobody?? They appeared in the most famous world tour of all time, one of the most famous videos of all time, and as I said, what they've done will live forever. You are just too ignorant to properly grasp it.

 

Very well said. So You also knew it. They JUST "APPEARED". That's it. 

I mean I respect them as Back up dancers but legend? LAMO.

Madonna is Legend. BAT is Legend, and They just "appeared". period.

 

[patriziagucci 15]

Very well said. So You also knew it. They JUST "APPEARED". That's it. 

I mean I respect them as Back up dancers but legend? LAMO.

Madonna is Legend. BAT is Legend, and They just "appeared". period.

 

 

lol stay delusional.

[Madame Madonna 4,107]

lol stay delusional.

 

But I'm not you.   

 

It's not my opinion, it's a fact, 

[Lucas B. 812]

For f*cks sake, I didn't knew there was more than 200 hours of footage of TOD, hopefully we'll get it someday.

As for the documentary: can't wait to watch it, will be nice to see what the BAT dancers have to say, how their lives changed during the time they spent on the road with Madonna and what happened after that.

Maybe we'll get more inside looks at the BAT tour, like some footage that wasn't shown on TOD?

[groovyguy 63,856]

[groovyguy 63,856]

[groovyguy 63,856]

Madonna's dancers, Toronto police officer recall how pop star was nearly arrested

http://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/entertainment/madonna-s-dancers-toronto-police-officer-recall-how-pop-star-was-nearly-arrested-1.2915843

TORONTO -- Few people tell Madonna what to do, but Toronto police certainly tried.

 

It all came to a boil nearly 26 years ago -- on May 29, 1990 -- at the third and final Toronto show of the "Blond Ambition World Tour."

 

Friction between the pop singer and local police had captured global headlines and Supt. Frank Bergen remembers it well -- because he was assigned the unenviable task of standing up to the "Material Girl" at the height of her stardom.

 

As the story went, police told Madonna's management they'd received complaints from audience members at the previous evening's show over her simulated masturbation while singing "Like a Virgin."

 

Officers said if she didn't scrap her crotch-grabbing antics at the SkyDome, now known as the Rogers Centre, they'd be forced to arrest her on obscenity charges.

 

Bergen, a 29-year-old Toronto constable at the time, was grappling with his own perspective on the situation.

 

He says the obscenity kerfuffle was led by a police detective and Crown attorney who took a strong position that Madonna's show shouldn't go on.

 

"What I was struggling with was how do you go to the microphone and tell everyone the show is cancelled," Bergen says.

"My role and my position was we were not going to shut the show down."

 

The confrontation was immortalized in "Madonna: Truth or Dare," the singer's 1991 documentary. Looking back, he says the film didn't exactly capture the full story.

 

"We were portrayed as being real knobs, if you will," he says.

"I don't think we were."

 

Some of Madonna's dancers still fondly remember the backstage drama.

 

"Oh, we wanted to get arrested, we really did," says Kevin Stea, who was part of the tour.

 

"That may have been the most powerful moment I ever felt with Madonna. As a team we were all together."

 

Cancelling the show was an option -- but one that Madonna didn't want to entertain.

 

The tour had already been generating controversy for its racy themes. Toronto concertgoers were handed a $1-off coupon for condoms as they entered the stadium.

 

Madonna also took a scripted moment in the show to encourage her male dancers to practice safe sex, in a nod to the HIV/AIDS epidemic that was near its peak.

 

Both moments placed extra scrutiny on the show and led some critics to accuse the singer of encouraging young fans to partake in casual sex.

 

A scene in "Truth or Dare" depicts Madonna gathered with her dancers and backup singers before the show for a prayer.

 

"Dear Lord, this is our last night in Toronto -- the fascist state of Toronto," she said.

 

She then marched past Bergen and his colleagues, hand-in-hand with her singers singing "Holiday," as he and his fellow officers watched the documentary cameras capture it all.

 

The concert began and Madonna took advantage of the opportunity to tease Toronto police.

 

"Do you think that I'm a bad girl?" she asked the crowd to cheers. "Do you think that I deserve to be arrested? I hope so."

 

When "Like a Virgin" began, Madonna started the performance as she always did, curled up on a red velvet bed.

 

Jose Gutierez, one of the dancers in the number, will never forget gazing into the abyss of the audience.

 

"From the stage you could see their (police) badges at all the exit signs around the arena," he recalls.

"All you saw was shimmers."

 

Madonna writhed and groped herself with the help of the dancers as her 1984 single reached its climax.

 

Then she moved on to her next hit.

 

When the show wrapped, Madonna's entourage approached police to ensure they weren't going to cart the singer away.

 

The officers assured them there were no problems.

 

"I think they just wanted free tickets," jokes Gutierez with a hint of disappointment.

 

"I was into seeing what the jail system in Toronto looked liked with Madonna. I mean, how bad could it be?"

 

Madonna's dancers recall touring with the pop singer in the upcoming documentary "Strike a Pose," which recently screened at Toronto's Hot Docs film festival.

 

Bergen says he respects concerns over obscenity but concedes it would've been difficult to satisfy a "loose interpretation of the Criminal Code."

 

It took a year before the officer would hear about his cinematic debut in "Truth or Dare."

 

One afternoon, his teenage neighbour excitedly shouted across the backyard that he'd spotted him on the big screen.

 

Bergen admits his musical tastes didn't sway towards Madonna, so the sheer magnitude of her celebrity was lost on him at the time.

 

And while he never spoke to Madonna himself, he ponders how the situation would've played out had officers arrested her that night.

 

"I don't think we ever got to the (point), nor would we have, where we walked up onto the stage -- and onto her bed -- and handcuffed her," he says.

 

"Then we would've been part of a different history."

[groovyguy 63,856]

[groovyguy 63,856]

Interesting!