Entertaining Children

Seeing everyone nodding their heads, Xiao Yao continued: "I know you are worried that the specific plot will affect your good movements in choreography. In fact, you don't have to worry about this, I have considered it."

"Do you know which of us is good at what moves?" Many people looked at Xiao Yao and muttered in their hearts, but they all held back and didn't say it.

"First of all, there are only two people on stage at the beginning of this dance," Xiao Yao pointed to Zhou Jingyi and said, "Jin, you are the heroine." Then he looked at Paul and said, "You are Paul, right?" Seeing Paul nodding, Xiao Yao continued: "You are the male lead. The opening stage is mainly your pas de deux, mainly dancing lock, to show the status of the two of you as lovers, so the music in this section is also relatively cheerful."

"Then you, you, you..." Xiao Yao ordered eight people in one breath, and then continued: "I know you guys are good at popin, you guys are in charge of playing zombies, the second part is mainly You zombies are dancing in a popin group, that's why the second piece of music is a bit eerie."

"Of course the rest of the people are normal human beings. The dance in this part is more intense. You are the main body, and it is also the time when you each show your talents. This is also the time when you can perform your best tricks. What kind of somersaults, all kinds of floor dances? As for the moves, you can use your housekeeping skills, of course, I have also designed some extra moves for you, I hope you can do them." Xiao Yao looked at the remaining street dancers and said.

"Finally," Xiao Yao turned his gaze back to Zhou Jingyi and Paul, "It's time for you two protagonists again. Here, I designed some modern dance moves for Jin. Jin, you have been learning modern dance systematically. Yes, so there shouldn’t be any problem, right? Paul, you haven’t learned modern dance, but your movements are very simple, basically just a few lifts. You only need to be strong enough to lift Jinto up. There is no technical difficulty .”

"What the hell? We are hip-hop dancers and we are participating in a hip-hop dance competition. Why do we have modern dance moves?" Even Zhou Jingyi asked strangely this time.

"Why not?" Xiao Yao smiled, "It's just adding a few moves, and it won't change the overall style of this hip-hop dance. The hip-hop part of this dance exceeds 80%, and the modern dance moves less than 100% Twenty percent, no one can say that this dance is not hip-hop."

"But mixing hip-hop and modern dance moves will make people feel weird? Anyway, I have never seen or imagined the effect of mixing these two dance moves." Zhou Jingyi was still a little worried. . Paul, tj and other dancers also nodded in agreement.

"Want to see the effect? ​​I have a way." As he said, Xiao Yao took out his mobile phone from his pocket, opened a video and handed it to Zhou Jingyi, "This is a dance that was popular in China two years ago. Hip-hop and The combination of modern dance and ballet, of which hip-hop and preppy styles are roughly equal, you can see the overall effect of this dance.

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After Zhou Jingyi took the phone, other members of the dance team also gathered around Zhou Jingyi curiously and looked at it together.

What Xiao Yao showed Zhou Jingyi was naturally the dance video of "boutit" that he designed for Chenxi Dance Company back then. After the rehearsal was completed, Xiao Yao also saved a video of their dance in his mobile phone.

The sound of electronic drums and keyboards started, followed by the majestic sound of violins. Everyone felt their scalps go numb for a while. Just listening to this soundtrack made everyone feel very shocked.

In the video, the entire dance team is clearly divided into two parts. The boy team basically dances street dance, while the girl team is in charge of ballet and modern dance. The two teams not only have their own individual performances, but also have a group dance time together, and there is no lack of content that they dance each other's dances. Of course, when dancing the opponent's dance, the movement difficulty will naturally be lower.

The two teams and two types of dances are mixed together, but there is no sense of disobedience. Whether it's the muscular boys dancing the national standard, or the slender girls dancing the explosive street dance, while the audience finds it interesting to watch, they will not jump out of the feeling process of this dance in an instant. It just doesn't know the so-called "playing".

"This dance is incredible."

"I didn't expect to dance like this."

"Who made up this dance? Awesome!"

"There is nothing to say about the soundtrack alone. It is both energetic and very atmospheric."

The members of the dance team in front of Xiao Yao may not talk too much about theoretical things, but since they are all dancing, their perception of dance is beyond ordinary people. It is naturally easy to judge whether a dance is excellent of.

"So, do you think there is no problem with this kind of mixed dance?" Xiao Yao looked at the amazed crowd and said, "The dance in the video has no genre restrictions, so it can be divided into street dance and college style dance. Half, we are participating in the hip-hop competition this time. The dance as a whole must be hip-hop. Naturally, we can’t use this split design, but add some modern dance movements to enhance the expressiveness and appeal of the whole dance. Everyone Do you still have a problem?"

"No problem." The specific examples are already in front of your eyes, and everyone has seen and felt the effect, so naturally no one has any objections.

"Wait!" Zhou Jingyi said suddenly, which immediately attracted everyone's attention. Could it be that Zhou Jingyi, who was the most supportive of Xiao Yao at the beginning, still has any objections at this time?

Zhou Jingyi looked at Xiao Yao and said, "One is street dance plus ballet, modern dance, national standard and other academic style, and the other is street dance plus modern dance moves. There are also male and female protagonists, and they are pas de deux with prominent male and female protagonists, and there are The group dance of the whole team. This is a dance of a Huaxia dance team, and you are from Huaxia. The most important thing is that this video is obviously a rehearsal video in the rehearsal room, not a video of a stage performance. So, the dance in this video Choreographer and score, also you?"

"Wow!" Hearing Zhou Jingyi's comparison and the reasons listed, everyone thought that this was really the case, and looked at Xiao Yao with wide eyes in surprise.

"Yeah, I helped them compose this two years ago, and I also made the soundtrack." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, "I told you that I was also a member of the dance team in Huaxia, and the dance team in the video It’s the dance team I joined in Huaxia. After I helped them choreograph this dance two years ago, they invited me to join their team. I only started to learn to dance with them at that time.”

"That is to say, when you made up this dance, you didn't know how to dance at all?" TJ continued to confirm.

"Yes, I didn't know how to dance before. But my mother used to be a professional dancer before she became an actress, and I also have a certain understanding of dance. I have seen a lot of dances and have a lot of ideas." Xiao Yao said.

"At that time, the captain of the girl's side of the dance team was my friend. I originally followed her to the dance team to watch their rehearsal. Later, I found out that they were a dance team, but they were divided into two separate parts. Hip-hop dance, ballet, modern dance, and national standard dances. It seems that the two sides have nothing to do with each other. It makes me feel like they are two teams. At that time, I thought why not combine their two parts. How about doing a dance together? Then there was this dance, and I was invited by them to join their dance team."

"I'll go, this fucking genius is a choreographer who can make music." TJ exclaimed exaggeratedly.

"If you had shown us this video three days ago, we would have invited you to join us and help us with the choreography and soundtrack. How could there be such an agreement that everyone will vote after watching the work three days later?" Paul also laughed As he said, his face clearly had the expression of picking up a treasure.

"It seems so," Xiao Yao scratched his head, "Why didn't I think of it at the time. This is indeed a very simple solution."

Since I have choreographed works before, I just show them to them. It's a pity that Xiao Yao didn't think of such a simple method at the time.

"Anyway," Xiao Yao put down the hand scratching his head, and continued, "The result is still the same. I didn't waste my time doing useless things. Even if you agreed to join me at that time, I didn't have one on hand at that time. The dance can be given to you at that time. I still have to spend about three days to get the current dance."

"In that case, let's not waste time." Paul stood up and said, "Guys, do you have no objection to Jan joining us as our choreographer and soundtrack composer?"

"No!" Everyone shook their heads.

"Okay, then let's start rehearsing." Paul clapped his hands and made everyone stand up, then turned to look at Xiao Yao and said, "Choreography, how to proceed later, how everyone should practice, we will listen now Yours."

"Okay, first of all, let's start with the movements of you and Jin, and let the others practice freely first." Xiao Yao said.

Zhou Jingyi and Paul stood in front of Xiao Yao, looking forward to how Xiao Yao would guide them. Although the others heard Xiao Yao talk about free practice, they didn't walk away obediently. They just stood up a little and looked at the three of them curiously. They also wanted to see how Xiao Yao, the new choreographer, treated the team members. The two key members of the team are guiding.

Xiao Yao didn't care too much about the onlookers of the team members, and began to explain the movements to Zhou Jingyi and Paul with gestures. He had choreographed Cheng Xi and Chen Chen in the Chenxi Dance Troupe before, and with some experience, he still followed the method at that time. Explain first, and demonstrate if it doesn’t work. Let them understand the designed movements first, and then train the coordination with the rhythm of the music and the emotional interaction between the two.

In any case, after two years of practice, Xiao Yao, who has a certain basic dance skills, made the dance demonstration movements much easier than when he was guiding Cheng Xi and Chen Chen, and it was also much more standard and smooth. Back then, he relied on his physical foundation from martial arts practice to force himself through each movement.

Of course, the process of directing the decomposed movements is not as entertaining as that of the overall dance. Although the members of the dance team watched Xiao Yao's process of guiding Zhou Jingyi and Paul with great interest, the audience of other band members watched with a little bit of admiration. Sorry to come.

Samien, who had a cold look, still leaned on the pillar and watched quietly, while Dean, George, and Mike simply went to the side to watch Xiao Yao while chatting in a low voice.

"I didn't expect Yang to be able to choreograph. It was two years ago that he was able to choreograph that kind of dance. How old was he at that time? Maybe he was less than sixteen? It's unimaginable." George sighed softly. When Zhou Jingyi watched the dance video with Xiao Yao's mobile phone, a few of them also leaned over to watch it.

"Yeah, Xueba, martial arts, playing band, choreographing and dancing, what else do you think he can't do?" Dean also shook his head and sighed, "I thought the Huaxia exchange student who lived in my house was just a school student. The usual nerd, but I didn't expect to be such a monster, you say, is this my luck or misfortune?"

"Come on, don't get cheap and act good." Mike and George looked at Dean contemptuously, and George said, "Aren't you already composing and writing songs with Yang Xue? You just found a treasure. I What I regret most now is why I didn’t let my parents go to school to apply for a host family for exchange students.” (To be continued.)