I just finished watching a bit of the performance of Good Guys Always Wear White on the MTV Movie Awards from 1993. Well they sound good...but Jon looks lost...either not into it or just not sure what to do as far as stage moves go. Watching Shepherds Bush I noticed he also seemed a bit lost during Celluloid Heroes when he wasn't singing. Might as well have been a roadie on stage just kinda rocking back and forth.

Anyway....those are just two recent example I've run into..but I'm starting to believe that all of Jon's stage moves are actually taught to him....every little move, rather than just something he comes up with on his own. I'm guessing a professional choreographer is brought into it. It's not like his stage moves are complicated and ground breaking..but it does seem he's lost if it's something fairly impromptu. I don't expect him to come up with something right off the bat..but he looked kinda silly to me just swaying there while Ray Davies sang. He'd have been better off just holding on to his mike stand staying where he was.

Does anyone have any factual knowledge about this topic? Think of the songs that have certain choreography over the years:

In and Out of Love (the crouched down walk, most of you probably never saw this unless you saw them on the 7,800 or Slippery Tours)
You Give Love a Bad Name (evolved version of the above)
Wild in the Streets (Richie and Alec side by side at the beginning, Jon behind them facing Tico just flailing about)
Hey God (tambourine time)
Keep the Faith (Shakers)
Blood On Blood (just go to the official site Videos section if you didn't see the Jersey Syndicate tour)

The above are examples where I could easily accept and understand being under the direction of a choreographer. However, is every thrust of the mike stand during It's My Life something that was directed to by a choreographer? Something as small as the way Jon grabs the mike off the stand in Born to Be My Baby (right after "our love, our lives" in first verse) was thought up by someone else? If it wasn't for a choreography directing his every move...would all we ever have is Jon swaying aimlessly back and forth like a drunk doing karoke?

I don't think it would negate him has a performer if indeed his every move was taught to him...since he does have to pull it off himself anyway in the end. But I've always wondered who came up with what. I've seen shows where he seems so locked in with the music that he is simply channelling it through his stage moves on the spot. Others, its like "they didn't prepare me for this."