Is there a practical difference between dancing to Beatles songs and dancing to classical music?
There is a difference, but it’s the same difference if I was dancing to Mozart vs. Chopin. I don’t think it’s as much a difference between the idioms as the fact that they’re different artists. With the Beatles, we all know this music and know what it’s saying. Jung would say our collective unconsciousness responds to it. Trey tasks us to dance to our own personal reaction to, say, “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” not to the common consensus that just says, “I love that song!” When not touring, the Trey McIntyre Project is based out of Boise, Idaho. Do you all like being out of the mainstream? Very much. There’s nothing good about the mainstream of dancing. It’s like high school — why are you trying to do what everyone else is doing? Trey loves to work in a vacuum. He’d work on an island if he could. When we launched as a company, we did a 25-city world tour and then asked, “Where should we be based?” Boise won based on its amazing ability to be more than what it is. People are very excited to hav
