Entertaining Children

The opening pas de deux designed by Xiao Yao for Zhou Jingyi and Paul was born out of the two dances "makeitwork" and "igotyou" in the American version of "Dancing in the World" in the previous life. Standing still and other floor movements, while keeping the relatively new, interesting and relatively simple movements.

For both of them, these movements are not very difficult. Among them, those movements that are relatively routine and performed by two people at the same time need to be neat, and the movements performed by the two must be consistent. It is not difficult to find the rhythm of the music and your own movements when practicing with music.

There are two unconventional hip-hop movements. One is that Zhou Jingyi leans back from the knee joint after Zhou Jingyi gets close to Paul. Paul needs to reach out to the back of Zhou Jingyi's neck to catch her when Zhou Jingyi's upper body is parallel to the ground. The other is that Paul slipped and knelt away from Zhou Jingyi and then fell back halfway. Zhou Jingyi also needed to get behind Paul before Paul fell to the ground, and reached out to catch him at the back of the head. This kind of action that needs the support of the other party needs to be done well, and you have to have enough confidence and trust in each other, and believe that the other party can catch you before you fall. This requires the tacit understanding and proficiency of the two people to practice cooperation. .

In addition, Zhou Jingyi also needs to learn a finger dance from Xiao Yao. In the original "igotyou", there is a section in which the female dancer stands behind the male dancer, with two hands pierced from the male dancer's armpit, and guides the expression of the male dancer through the fingers of the two hands. But in Xiao Yao's current version, the male and female protagonists are not sad, so naturally they don't need fingers to guide their expressions. But Xiao Yao found this action very interesting, so he simply asked the heroine to stand behind the hero, and put on her hands to do a finger dance.

After watching Xiao Yao's explanation, guidance and demonstration of the opening duet movements of the two, the team members began to admire Xiao Yao from the bottom of their hearts. It seems that the movements are not very complicated or difficult, but under Xiao Yao's choreography and whimsical conception, they immediately had a refreshing feeling, and secretly sighed that hip-hop dance can still be choreographed like this. It doesn't have to be a powerful and intense scene, this kind of freshness between lovers can also be expressed by hip-hop.

After guiding Zhou Jingyi and Paul's opening pas de deux in the first part alone, Xiao Yao asked them to practice alone while he walked up to the rest of the group dancers.

Xiao Yao did not directly explain the movements of the group dance, but asked everyone to introduce themselves first: "When I came last time, Jin had already introduced me, and everyone knew that my name was Yang. But at that time, I only knew tj and The names of the two of Paul. So besides TJ, I want you to introduce yourself first, I don’t want to call you guys “guys” in rehearsal later, I’m afraid you won’t be able to tell who I’m talking about.”

"How come?" Zhou Jingyi and Paul were practicing their pas de deux on the side, and the rest of the group was headed by the black youth TJ. He said with some doubts: "Just now you ordered eight people in one breath, and they are the eight best popin dancers here. I guess Jin has introduced the entire team to you in private these days,

Otherwise, how could you pick people so accurately. Didn't she tell you the names of our team members when she introduced you to them? "

"Jin introduce the team members to me? How can Jin introduce me when you are not present?" Xiao Yao also asked a little strangely.

"Because Jin is in charge of our team's registration for the National Hip-Hop Competition, so all our members have a resume with her. Didn't she introduce us to you with the photo on the resume?" TJ said.

"Oh, so that's how it is," Xiao Yao suddenly shook his head and said, "No, I've been busy with choreography and music for the past few days. I haven't gone to work in the supermarket, and I haven't seen Jin at all. I saw Jin last time. When it comes to Jin, it’s still here.”

"Then how do you know that the eight of them in our team are best at popin?" TJ puzzled.

"I saw it when I came to see your rehearsal last time." Xiao Yao said. "Although I don't know their names, I remember the characteristics of each of them."

"You only watched it for half an hour last time, and you remembered all of us?" TJ asked in disbelief.

"I have a better memory, which is also one of my talents." Xiao Yao smiled.

"Okay," said the black youth with a defeated look, "I don't know what kind of guy Kim brought us."

"What do you mean?" Xiao Yao was stunned.

"It's nothing," the black young man shook his head and said, "In that case, let's start with my introduction. My name is Terrence Jackson, and everyone calls me tj. If you like this simple initial, you can also Call me Terry."

"No problem, I'll just call you tj like everyone else, I like this name." Xiao Yao laughed.

After tj took the lead, the rest of the team members also stepped forward one by one and briefly introduced their names to Xiao Yao. Xiao Yao knew and remembered the names of these dozen people, and it was convenient to call them when explaining the movements later. too much.

Zhou Jingyi and Paul are the core of the whole dance, and Xiao Yao puts the most thought into their dance moves. In comparison, there are no unexpected new moves in the subsequent group dance.

The movements designed by Xiao Yao in the group dance part are basically the movements they would have known, and many of the difficult movements of a single individual were originally the most proud skills of that person, which can be regarded as tailor-made for them. . Basically, they don't need to learn new moves. The main task is to practice the coordination with the rhythm of the music and maintain the consistency and integrity of the team's overall performance.

In the third part, the battle between zombies and normal people is quite intense, and the special skills of several people are also arranged to be displayed separately in this part. But most of these outstanding skills are those players who play normal people. In comparison, those players who dance popin don't feel so brilliant.

After Xiao Yao explained all the movements of the second and third parts of the group dance, some members of the popin team approached Xiao Yao and raised this point.

"Although I only watched some separate movements, I think this dance is good enough. But I also have a question," a thin boy named Rick said to Xiao Yao, "I feel that the second part Compared with the first and third parts, isn't it a little too ordinary."

"If you only look at the action, it is indeed the case." Xiao Yao nodded with a smile, "But the second part is not the action, or if you only look at the action, you can't see the point of the second part. The point of view of the second part also needs some other things to cooperate."

"Cooperate with other things?" Rick asked immediately, "What is it?"

"It will be kept secret for the time being, and it will be revealed at the next rehearsal. I will bring the things at that time, and you will know after reading it." Xiao Yao said with a trick.

"Hey, why are you keeping it a secret? Jan, you can't do this!" Rick shouted immediately.

"Why?" Xiao Yao smiled, "Paul said, you all listen to me as a choreographer, so I can do it."

"You..." Rick stared at Xiao Yao, but didn't know what to say to the rogue choreographer.

"Okay," Xiao Yao patted Rick on the shoulder and comforted, "I know you are the leader of this group of zombies, you just need to practice your movements well, don't worry about being outstanding, when the time comes I will There will be a surprise for you."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yao left him, found Zhou Jingyi and Paul again, and began to explain to them the movements of the fourth part of the dance.

"The emotional conflict in this part is very intense, and there are many intimate actions," Xiao Yao first introduced to the two, "I hope the two of you will not be too shy and twitchy."

As soon as Xiao Yao said this, Zhou Jingyi immediately felt a little embarrassed. Paul asked with great interest, "How intimate?"

"In addition to the very intimate physical contact in some lifting movements, there are also separate kissing movements!" Xiao Yao laughed.

"What!" Zhou Jingyi and Paul shouted at the same time.

The exclamation of the two in unison was so loud that even the other team members who were practicing group dance moves were startled and came over curiously.

"What's wrong?" TJ asked the two of them, "Is there any problem?"

"Jan said there was kissing in our dance." Paul said to TJ, not knowing what expression to put on his face.

"What?" TJ also exclaimed, then looked at Xiao Yao and said, "Yang, I thought Jin was your girlfriend, but I didn't expect that the dance you choreographed would make her kiss others in public. Generous!"

"What?" This time it was Xiao Yao's turn to be surprised. "Kim and I are just good friends, she's not my girlfriend."

"So you choreographed her kissing in public?" TJ continued.

"No, this is required by the plot, and has nothing to do with whether she is my girlfriend or not." Xiao Yao quickly explained.

"Can you remove the kissing action?" Zhou Jingyi looked at Xiao Yao and asked suddenly.

"Ah? It's not appropriate to remove it." Xiao Yao shook his head. Seeing Zhou Jingyi's complexion change, Xiao Yao hurriedly continued: "But I know some borrowing techniques, which can make the audience look like you are kissing, but in fact your lips are not touching at all. This technique is American. It doesn't seem to be used much here, but it is often used in Huaxia's film and television, especially in drama series, I know several methods, if you need, I can teach you."

"Of course." Zhou Jingyi nodded immediately.

"I thought it was a good thing that our choreographer knew a lot," Paul said with a wry smile to TJ beside him, "but now I hate why Jan knows so much."

"Paul!" Zhou Jingyi glared at Paul dissatisfied.

"Just kidding!" Paul quickly raised his hands and explained.

"I'm very interested in the borrowing technique that Yang said. Since Yang said that he wants to teach you, why don't we teach it now, and let's see what this kind of technique is like." TJ said, not sure if he was really interested or To ease Paul's embarrassment.

"Okay," Xiao Yao nodded, "Anyway, sooner or later it will be taught. You, including Paul, all stand by my right hand."

The dancers immediately stood aside obediently, looking at Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi with great interest.

Xiao Yao stood still facing Zhou Jingyi. Seeing Zhou Jingyi's nervous expression, Xiao Yao smiled, and then stepped forward aggressively and firmly hugged Zhou Jingyi's left shoulder. Their faces quickly approached. When the distance between the two was only a few centimeters, Xiao Yao Holding Zhou Jingyi in his arms, he quickly leaned forward, skillfully blocking the sight of all the dancers on the side.

"Wow!" From the position of the dancers, the two clearly kissed together. Although Xiao Yao said it was false, they still couldn't help but make noise.

"Jan! What is he doing?" Even Dean, who was far away, exclaimed. (To be continued.)