How does Hyoyeon keep from being blinded by her own hair?

[koganbot]

How does Hyoyeon keep from being blinded by her own hair? I'm not much of a song-and-dance man, so I never realized what an issue this must be for long-haired performers and their choreographers and hairstylists, especially when the dances don't allow for a lot of improvised hand movements.

h/t arbitrary_greay, as usual.

(Also note hat mishap at 0:22.)

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Although it's not quite the same topic, I want to say that I myself have seen, live and in person, Iggy falling off the stage (though it was a different Iggy).

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To adore Hyoyeon and her hair forever

[koganbot]

Discovered this "Hyohyunnies Vow" originating at the Girls Generation Tunisia tumblr:

“As a Hyohyunnie, 
I promise to proclaim Hyoyeon as the only Dancing Queen that ever lived,
 to adore Hyoyeon and her hair forever, 
to dance like it's the end of the world even though my legs hurt, 
to love my passion like Hyoyeon loves dancing,
 and to never regret that Hyoyeon came to my life and made it the best…”

h/t kittychow99

[arbitrary-greay.livejournal.com]

In the SMTown version, you can see Hyo doing some hairography hair-flips that get it out of the way temporarily.

There are a few approaches to the problem:
1) Choreography that doesn't get so wild that hair starts falling in the way
2) Choreography loose enough that hand movements can be improvised. This seems to be the main route, as dancers at a high enough level can always go off of the swagger of the rest of their body to spare a hand. (Especially since choreo will tend to get modified anyways for one hand to hold a microphone)
3) Style hair to hold it back.

Hah, that Hyohunnies vow makes me amused, considering one of the staples of the snsd_ffa corner was lamenting over Hyo's hair choices since her notorious fringe in 2010.

Note how carefully Boa dances and poses to keep her hair out of the way, and how it's styled to make things easier, despite still being relatively let down and free.

[koganbot]

Had missed the fringe and the brouhaha. Google just sent me here:

Hyoyeon's fringe bangs, a fashion statement or a fashion TERRORIST statement?