i promised myself no matter what happens don't give up
oh my god oh my god oh my god
with styles it really is now or never
every week i get to feature someone new and incredible on this channel but rarely have i ever met anyone as inspiring
as stiles dykes his life story absolutely blows my mind but i want you to think about one thing while
you're watching this video how many times could he have given up and he didn't and in 24 hours
he could change his future
everything i've done in dance has been leading up to this moment
I am on stage at yagp the olympics of ballet the biggest dance companies in the world choose their dancers
at ygp finals and in 24 hours how styles performs on this stage will determine if he can fulfill his
dreams so stick around to the end of this video to see what happens
if i don't score in the finals
that basically brings me back to like square one this could like make or like break my future
styles is inside this dance studio finishing up his rehearsal with his partner emma and i
want to change his life today and i could do that if i can help get him a hundred
thousand followers on instagram i'm going to see if i can make it happen let's go
emma styles one big question you want to be instant famous sure do you want to be instant
famous yeah let's do it come on come on we're gonna go do a photo shoot right now let's go
first photo starbucks there is a starbucks right there let's go i want you to seriously hinge drink
a cup of coffee okay these guys are incredible ballet dancers
can i take a photo of him doing
a hinge and drinking a cup of empty coffee oh yeah awesome i can do a pretty sick hint so watch yeah
that's not bad right yeah okay ready and go i'm gonna post some of these photos on my instagram
and then give styles the rest to post on his
have a great day all right thank you oh keep going okay
look everybody wait you have to follow styles on instagram and here's why if you want to have a big
career as a dancer the companies they look at your numbers if we can get him to 100 000 followers
i almost guarantee he will get in the company let's do that for him follow him on instagram
when i was younger i'd always get bullied because i like to do what kids would say
girl things cartwheels and i like to do the splits and like make up dances a lot of boys didn't like
hang out with me because i was weird they would just say a bunch of like mean things to me so
that also plays into why i didn't really have any friends
about when i was 11 i started dance
and it basically like changed my life
we only have about three hours before i could start to
get as many viral photos as we can so we gotta hurry come on
me being 11 i kind of started late
so i had to like work twice as hard from the moment i was like in the studio taking
class i knew that this is where i was meant to be this is what i meant to do in my life
i started going every day taking ballet and like every other class they offered
when i was 17 i graduated from that studio in high school and then i had to stop dancing for a while
when you're like 18 you graduate and you move on to do other things i just was kind of lost
you could say for a while when i was around the age of 14 my mom got diagnosed with a brain tumor
which like caused her to lose her sight she has always supported me and she just saw how much
i loved to dance and saw how happy it made me i had to get a job and like try and like help out
as best i could working close to 30 hours going to school trying to focus on getting good grades
while also trying to take care of your mom and trying to excel and dance because that's what i
want to do for a career if you think about it it's just like whoa at that time i didn't know if like
i was gonna lose my mom if she was gonna still be alive that was a really scary time we haven't
really spoken in a while just because we got into an argument and that makes me kind of sad because
my mom is like the only person in my family that really has supported me and really just
been there through at all the classes the conventions everything
if she watches this video
is there anything you want to tell her
uh mom i'm sorry and i really and i really love you
my dad actually wasn't around at all really it kind of makes me feel crappy because like the
kids at school had dads and when we would have to like dads bring your kid to school day i couldn't
go with my dad and i didn't have anyone to go with but i think it made me very independent
and it made me want to do better for myself and maybe someday when i have a family i know what
not to do my mom would always tell me you don't need him you're strong enough on your own and
part of the reason why i dance today is because it makes me feel almost invincible and like i
can do anything i want it's just something that i rely on just to make me feel safe and strong and
that i am enough
there's a train we need to get a photo of the train
that police officer just looked at me three times now i'm not doing anything officially wrong
yet can you do a leap where you leap and you cross your legs and you're like
levitating like you're waiting wait i'll tell you when go oh my gosh
wow okay
good yes move on that was wild wow that was good
here's the cold hard fact two people up
for a job in the dance world one of them has a lot of followers that person is probably going
to get the job so please right now follow styles let's get them to a hundred thousand okay do it
i'm gonna keep jogging until you do it take a break go please hurry follow him follow him
i'm tired i'm old i can't keep doing this go get your phone thank you let's go on with this
challenge excuse me i'm so sorry to ask you this i would love to take a photo of a dancer
holding a flag and i saw your flag would you mind if this doesn't say america what does hit
this light hit this like hear your light spot yes this is the sun flap the thing go go yes one more
oh my god oh my god oh my god okay okay okay
that's one of my favorite shots ever subscribe hit that bell
i knew that i was gay from the time i've been like five it's just a feeling that you have when
you just know you know i remember being on the phone with one of my friends and i was like hey
i want to tell my mom i'm gay but i'm like really really scared because that's like a
really big deal and i just said mom i don't like girls and i was like mom i'm gay and she was like
i know i knew from the time you were like little and i was like really i can like breathe again i
don't have to like pretend to be someone i'm not as i got older i realized like there's
nothing to be ashamed of it's just who you are
he's a big brother to everyone in the studio
everyone at our school really looks up to him and i believe that since he started with us
a couple years ago he's really risen everyone to a different level he's so positive so motivated
such a sweet kid and he's like really an incredible person he's just like the one
of the best friends i could ever ask for like he couldn't be any better he's just so kind and
thoughtful and he's such a hard worker and he deserves everything that he is getting
yeah i think we got that shot that was good okay yeah we're having fun right now but
tomorrow is the big day that's when sales has to qualify for finals make his dreams come true
wait till the end let's see if that happens right now let's keep shooting
sunset on the beach oh my god oh my god i might have a cool reflection go
i mean i don't understand how a human being can do that
every week we give away a prize to a subscriber this week we just ran into aubry on the beach she
is a subscriber she gets to spin for her own prize are you ready she gets a photo shoot oh my god
subscribe hit that bell next week it could be you
i want to be right over here on the hard sand go
okay it's a big day tomorrow we did our part here yeah you got this
everything i've done in dance has been leading up to this moment if i make it to like the finals
that is like one step closer to my dream of being in like a ballet company this
could like make or like break my future making finals for ygp is such a huge accomplishment
as a dancer there's so many scholarship opportunities and job opportunities for styles
if he makes finals this could like make his entire career
he basically had to give up his
whole life for this but he does it because he really genuinely wants it and he works for it
every day with styles it really is now or never i want to be someone that people remember
and a person that people can look up to i promised myself no matter what happens don't give up
i did the best i could i think my performance went well
but now it's up to the judges and we'll find out the results in four days
and the winners are third place mariah porter from youth america ballet
company second place maya schlosser first place amber scots
we have one more award in the senior age division which goes to a dancer that has both
excel and classical particularly this dancer is styles and dice from oda's dance field
to anyone who's afraid to go for their dreams my advice to you is
do it do whatever you have to do to make it happen
once you like take little steps to get closer to where you want to be you feel unstoppable