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re: Tanz Belgium has a title

Posted by:
Vin 07:08 pm UTC 11/25/08
In reply to: re: Tanz Belgium has a title - Smeghead 06:59 pm UTC 11/25/08

Good possibility.

I must confess, in my reckoning of the title, "Dance of the Vampires," or "Tanz der Vampire," I've always thought of "dance" as a verb, as in the act of dancing, as opposed to the noun, meaning the event. Although I realize there is a ball, or dance, in the show.

Have I been misconstruing all this time?

> In English a Dance is another term for a Ball as well...
> perhaps Dance onlys means the Verb and not the Noun and
> they felt the title should refer to the event...
>
> > Is there just no Belgian word for "dance?" Or is it just
> > extremely unwieldy?
> >
> > > According to casting call/audition information which I
> > > just looked up, the Belgian version of Tanz will be called
> > > 'Bal der Vampieren.' Which translates to 'Ball of the
> > > Vampires.'
> > >
> > > Personally, I don't like the way it sounds, but at least
> > > they didn't go with 'vampiers' as plural of 'vampier'.


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