RICH: Sheesh!
MTJ: Wow.
RICH: He's insane!
DAVID: OoOOH!
DAVID: Ah, I don't even know, dude-
I'm like– I have goosebumps.
[laughs]
CLAY: Welcome back to STEEZY's channel!
It's your boy Clay,
and we have another episode of 'Reverse Choreography!'
This episode's dancer is David Lee,
who you can actually take beginner,
intermediate,
and advanced classes with on STEEZY Studio,
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we have producer, MATHS TIME JOY,
and singer, Rich.
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DAVID: What up y'all, my name is David Lee,
and I'm currently the Artistic Director
for Culture Shock Los Angeles.
And I'm also the Instructional Designer
and an Instructor here at STEEZY.
DAVID: This is on the word "trap,"
on sippin', he goes "sippin'."
DAVID: I would say the hardest part about choreographing to no music
was probably choosing the BPM.
I think there's a large range of movement
that can just be either really quick or really slow.
I just really wanted to groove out
and be a little bit more upbeat.
I was in a really like, uplifting vibey energy,
um- really good head space at the time.
And I feel like a lot of the movement that I was using
actually stemmed from a lot of freestyles.
And then when I got stuck,
I actually hit up some friends for some keywords.
I just asked them to text me some word association,
and I just created movement
off of those words that they sent me.
[ ♪ "Promiscuous" by Nelly Furtado plays ♪ ]
I'm guessing that the vibe or the genre of the music
is gonna be somewhat gravitating towards hip-hop,
BUT, I have a feeling that there's going to be
some sort of like, switch.
I- I'm probably going to be super surprised
to see what kind of music comes out of this.
[metronome ticking]
RICH: He's insane.
MTJ: Yeah...
RICH: It's actually more uptempo than I was expecting.
MTJ: Yeah, for sure.
It's like uh-
it looks like he's-
it's like something funky, you know?
RICH: Yeah, totally.
MTJ: Yeah, he's great.
It's got a bit of a, like-
MJ feel as well.
RICH: Totally!
MTJ: Some of those moves in there.
RICH: I'd be down-
to explore some funk vibes-
with this.
MTJ: Yeah, for sure.
He's great.
RICH: Insane!
I'm Rich,
I live in Brooklyn.
MTJ: I'm MATHS TIME JOY and I'm a producer and artist from London.
It felt like the dance flowed where,
towards the end, it picked up a bit,
and I think that was what I was trying-
trying to hit those points of like,
moving through the emotion of the piece, you know?
RICH: For some reason, I felt like it lent itself to-
maybe like a social setting,
a club or like-
a bunch of people hanging out outside.
So I was kind of inspired to
take the lyrics
in the direction of
a mating call, in a way.
[bird chirping its mating call]
MTJ: The first thing I laid down was actually
the kick.
[bass drum beat]
Just down here.
That was the most important thing to keep me kind of
following the rhythm of what he was doing.
Once I had that,
this chord part here,
[synth chords playing]
Um–
I think it- I- is kind of following the kick.
RICH: And also I noticed you
pitched it down a little bit.
MTJ: There's moments where he's like,
looks like he's kind of going into slow motion,
I think mostly by bringing the pitch down a bit,
it helped to kind of add to that.
It'll be interesting to see what he does after,
obviously with more of a feel for like,
how the track came out, you know.
DAVID: Woohoo!
Wwwoo!
Yee!
[laughs]
Yo...
Yo- what??
Yewwww!
Hey!
Let's go!
Woohoo–!
Yo those dropouts are crazy!
[laughs]
Yo!
What the heck!
That's NOT what I thought I was going to hear,
but it- it's so sick!
The choice of the snare
was so interesting because I feel like it really
replicated the- how I was hitting certain pictures and-
popping out of certain pictures.
I choreographed it so that it would build in certain parts.
They did a great job of just making that happen with
even the vocals, and how subtle-
the vocals were and how soft they were.
That's actually what I felt when I was moving.
Like, I felt very like- lifted and ethereal.
That chill contrast
of just really athletic vibes,
but also matching that-
that fluidity.
Some of my favorite parts of the track were actually
how often they chose to drop out the music,
so that it would really like, fill the movement out in that space.
And there's that one last bit where-
he- he drops out the music,
but he picks it back up when I go double time.
So I think again, their understanding of movement and music and that-
that- that relationship is so awesome and so beautiful.
Yo, big shout out to MATHS TIME JOY and Rich
for creating a super dope track.
I'm really excited to re-choreograph to this
so, let's get it.
RICH: Yeeesss!
RICH: I like that turnaround.
MTJ: Yeah.
RICH: I like how he reacts to the shifting-
um, beat–
MTJ: Yeah it– RICH: like when it becomes more fast-paced.
MTJ: Yeah, for sure, he's way more in the pocket.
RICH: Totally.
MTJ: I like he kept that bit as well.
RICH: Totally!
Sheesh!
MTJ: Wow.
RICH: He's insane!
I also liked his t-shirt!
MTJ: I was going to say that as well. [laughs]
RICH: Key differences I noticed were
how he would paint different lyrics of mine.
When I said "your eyes hypnotize me,"
he covers his eyes
I think in a really fluid way
that paints that lyric really well.
MTJ: I think my favorite moment in the last one,
which is why I'm glad he kept it in this one,
is like towards the end, when he's-
doing this thing where he's stepping backwards,
but he- he's like in half time to start with,
and then goes into double time.
And it was– RICH: Totally.
MTJ: something that I did in the music, so-
and I'm glad he kept that bit in.
RICH: There's often a divide between
what I think a song that I write sounds like,
and what the rest of the public thinks it sounds like.
It helps me understand our sound.
You don't get to do that every day.
MTJ: There's only so many ways they can say
they like it or they don't.
Watching someone like,
EXPRESS it,
is just a whole different thing.
RICH: Definitely want to do more dance collabs in the future!
CLAY: Whoa! That was a BANGER choreography,
but you know what else is a banger?
The fact that you can learn this piece
on STEEZY Studio right now!
That's right.
Just like Bianca Vallar's in our last episode of 'Reverse Choreography,'
you can do the same thing
with this one!
But the only way you can do that-
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for the STEEZY app,
[Clay vocalizing]
Thank you so much for watching!
We'll see you guys next week!
Ptchoo!
Whoo!
DAVID: On "sippin'," he goes "sippin'."
And you want to think about just squeezing everything on that eight.
Yeah.
Um, I would recommend thinking about
counts versus lyrics for that part, yeah.
It'll help you a lot in the process.
So, from here, one again,
we're going to shoot our hands to the right to go,
one, two, three,
four-ah, fiveee- SIX-ah–