Please welcome 10-year-old hip-hop dancer Alyson Stoner.
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I'm still trying.
Congratulations on the video, best video of the year.
Yes.
That was very exciting.
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I'll bet it was.
Yes, it was.
It was.
And so they brought you up on stage,
and you were with Missy and all of her glam crew.
Yeah.
The director actually helped me up.
And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm actually onstage,
actually with Missy Elliott.
I know.
He was holding like Emmanuel Lewis or something.
You were being held up like a little puppet.
I was waiting for you to start talking.
Fall.
Yeah, or fall, yeah.
But that must've been exciting to be there.
Oh, yeah.
And so you met Justin Timberlake.
I did.
Wasn't that exciting?
Yes.
He actually leaned over, and he told me-- he goes, one day,
Alyson--
or he didn't say my name.
But--
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Go ahead, embellish.
That's good.
Embellish the story.
He said my name.
He said, one day, Alyson, one day
that's going to be you up there.
And I was like, oh, I hope.
I can't wait to get up there.
And then just an hour later he was right.
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He's psychic, I'll tell you.
So teach me whatever you can, because I'm always
trying to get hip.
Oh, OK.
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So to get hip--
Yes.
--you will need to wear one of these.
Oh.
All righty then.
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Just like mine.
Come on.
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That works for you.
It's A-OK.
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I don't know.
I don't have a mirror.
Just, let's go.
OK.
So the first move I'm teaching you is the Harlem Shake.
Right.
And you shake your shoulders.
And then you pull up.
Pull up.
I just did.
Do it again?
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Yeah.
And then shake again.
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Don't laugh at me when you're teaching.
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I'm feeling hip already.
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Go ahead.
So you're shaking, and then you pull up.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
And then to get real hip--
Uh-huh.
[LAUGHS] Don't mock me.
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Yeah?
You dust it off.
Oh, I know how to dust it off.
Dust it off, yeah, So add that.
Yeah.
And then dust it off.
Oh, OK.
Did I dust it too soon?
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Well--
And you just keep your legs completely
still while you're on the dance floor like that?
Well, you can go like that, but hip hop
is fun because you have your own style to it.
Right.
So OK, then let me just try to see your style.
Go ahead and do what you do.
Well, like another step I'll show you is--
OK.
OK?
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Yeah.
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But another step--
We're trying to be patient and understanding today.
I know I'm old, but go.
OK.
So in the video, I do the little dance that
was choreographed by High Hat.
High Hat, sure.
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Old buds, right?
Don't forget to smile.
Well, I never see anybody smile.
And they're all angry.
Well, if you--
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If you mess up, they don't really pay attention
to all of the body movements.
They pay attention to your face.
All right.
So you can go, hi--
All right.
So take your two hands, arms, and you press forward.
Yeah, that's the move I like that you do.
OK, and then the legs go like the twist.
And when you're going like that, it goes out or in?
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You're doing great.
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Well, thank you.
So you're going the same direction.
So when you go in with your legs,
your arm goes in like that.
And then you do three, and then you pull forward.
Uh-huh.
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Forward, then switch legs.
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Pull forward, and then switch legs.
And do it again.
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Come on!
Other arm.
Other way.
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Yes.
Now pull forward.
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I feel like I'm the Karate Kid right now.
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All right, let's have some music.
Let's put this together.
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Harlem Shake.
(SINGING) [INAUDIBLE].
Yeah, and then the six step.
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Get with me now, six step.
(SINGING) [INAUDIBLE] flip it, reverse it.
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To the rhythm!
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Ah!
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Now you hold my legs up now.
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