[Brittany groans]
BRITTANY C: She's not impressed.
BRITTANY P: Literally, s**t ****,
do not bother me.
BRITTANY: Just watch the soul leave my body.
CLAY: Which Brittany do you think is the best Brittany?
JESSIE: What's up, everybody!
Welcome back to STEEZY's YouTube channel.
It's your girl Jessie,
and today we have another episode of "3 Choreographers 1 Song."
So by this point, you probably already know
we added three brand new styles to STEEZY Studio.
We have Ballet,
Contemporary,
and Jazz!
And today's episode is SO special
because the dancers we're featuring are all teachers
on STEEZY Studio!
We have Brittany Cavaco, your Intro to Ballet Instructor,
Will Johnston, one of your Contemporary Instructors,
and Brittany Parks, one of your Jazz Instructors.
The three will be dancing to "Levitating" by Dua Lipa featuring DaBaby!
[DaBaby voice] Let's gooo–
Is that how he does it??
[lower voice] Let's goooo.
Let's–
goooo– lower?
Or just like, lip sync me.
[DaBaby] ♪ Let's go ♪
[crew laughing]
CHOREOGRAPHER #1: BRITTANY CAVACO
BRITTANY: Hello, my name is Brittany Cavaco,
I've danced for companies such as English National Ballet
and the Los Angeles Ballet,
and I'm also your Intro to Ballet instructor on STEEZY Studio!
So, I've been dancing ballet for...
over 20 years now.
[frantic inhale]
Getting old..
As a ballet dancer, we don't often dance to pop music.
It was really, really fun,
but definitely hard to find the right movements to go
with the upbeat track of it.
Ballet is all about storytelling,
but it's a little bit harder for modern storytelling.
You can't just be like–
DEATH.
My piece was definitely inspired by "Swan Lake".
I made my costume for this.
You should've seen me with my hot glue gun.
I thought it was really cool because swans are like-
they fly.
So like, levitating-
I thought it was just like–
maybe I got too in my head on this.
One thing I also had to think about was how my pointe shoes would be on concrete.
Jumping on concrete is a dancer's kind of worst nightmare.
Don't worry, it was fine,
but um-
it was really fun and-
I hope you enjoy it!
BRITTANY: I mean.. are you kidding me?
Are you kidding me?
WILL: She made that by the way.
Hey.
Yes!
WILL: So prettyyy!
YES!
[satisfied exhale]
WORK!
Ha! Ha!
Those feet..
Work, let's go!
Yes!! WILL: Yaaaayyy~
BRITTANY: Come on fouette's!
[laughs] Let's go~!
WILL: I can't even do those- on flat.
[moans]
I literally have chills.
I have actual chills.
[gasps]
Oh, she's still going!
Oh, my gosh!
[moan]
[squeal]
[laughing]
Hey, hey!
Those are-
INSANELY hard.
Oh–!
Whoa, cool!
Stop it.
Stop it- right now..
That little cutie patootie on pointe, did y'all see that?
Oh. My. GOSH!
My favorite moment had to have been the fouette's.
♪ I got you, ♪
♪ all night! ♪
I loved that!
I got chills multiple times.
WILL: That's SO far from my physical capability,
I'm just like,
"I wonder what that feels like."
Like what does it FEEL like to EXTEND like that behind your back?
What an experience that must be... [laughs]
BRITTANY P: There is also elegance in just being in a position.
You can stand there and you can just be,
you can be in that Relevé and just be,
and it's effective.
WILL: The sense of musicality she had,
it's so different from how I would approach the song,
and it has this way of kind of extending out accents
and beats that I think is so insanely cool.
BRITTANY: She still hit the technique.
We still saw the ballet.
We still saw the pointe.
WILL: That sort of PASSING of accents through elongation.
BRITTANY: And she was dancing to Dua Lipa, okay?
WILL: Take a risk on your creations
and be bold with your choices-
I think that's an exciting thing.
CHOREOGRAPHER #2: WILL JOHNSTON
WILL: Hi, everybody. My name is Will Johnston.
I am the co-founder/co-director of Entity Contemporary Dance
and I am also a Contemporary Instructor here at STEEZY Studio.
In general, stylistically, my movement can definitely be classified as Contemporary,
but that for me is really like a celebration of a lot of different influences.
I love and appreciate all aspects of every little community I've been a part of
and really try to celebrate that by incorporating that all into one place.
And I think that that's visible
in what I was doing today through the musicality and the use of shape.
First of all, I do an Axel,
[laughs] which, if you know what an Axel is,
it's SUPER studio Jazz-like,
but it's SO effective.
So I was like, "Yeah, I'm gonna do this."
The other elements that I feel like-
really, again, show this idea of celebrating fusion
are the use of isolations and accents,
which really, for the first time,
I was introduced through Hip Hop.
I was just like,
"What is all of this?"
A lot of that kind of comes together to make this piece to Dua Lipa.
BRITTANY P: Ah!
BRITTANY C: Ohh- that eye contact!
Come on!!
Oh, this is delicious!
Hoo!
Yess!
Oh! I love those hips!
Oh, yes!
Ohh?!
The lines!
Oh- he was like so sensual!
Let's go, Will!
Hey! Hey!
YES! [laughs]
Tension.. okay!
Ah!
Ohhhha!
Ohoho, I LOVE that!
[squeals]
Oh my God!
Oh, yes!
I'm sweating. Did I just dance?
I'm confused.
Oh my gosh!
Dance is SO great!
I love dance!
I really do!
Now I'm gonna cry!
BRITTANY C: I just loved how he was so comfortable
in front of the cameras.
There was such confidence in everything that he did
and it seemed to look so easy.
BRITTANY P: I have the biggest smile on my face.
The SHAPES that he was making,
are you kidding me?
Oh my GOSH..
With the musicality on top of THAT?
BRITTANY C: He does a really beautiful job of FINISHING every movement
and, like, sustaining it-
that beautifully, buttery transitioning into the next.
BRITTANY P: The- ju- buh-
Brittany had musicality,
Will had musicality
and they did two completely different styles.
It blows my mind- dance is incredible!
I love when he did like,
the hips on the beat.
It was hot in that studio, but I was like,
"Whooo- okay, hello~!"
BRITTANY P: First of all, he pulled out an Axel.
I saw that, Will.
I saw that.
Loved that!
There's still a presence.
Don't forget that just 'cause you're doing all this and-
moving all this,
you still have this.
CHOREOGRAPHER #3: BRITTANY PARKS
BRITTANY: Hi! My name is Brittany Parks.
I've danced for Beyoncé
and Megan The Stallion.
And I'm currently a Jazz Instructor on STEEZY Studio.
My general thought process when I was choreographing was
listen to the music.
Let the music tell you what to do.
And so I did!
"Glitter in the sky,"
"Sky," it's right there for you, you know?
Like Dua, yes!
Glitter in the sky!
I let the rhythm move me
into what Jazz moves me to happen
or what Jazz Funk needs to happen.
Dua Lipa's lyrics-
and the way she sings them,
♪ I got you ♪
Like, OOH!
the "youuuu"?
you can't help, but like–
Ah! Stretch OUT to that!
It's right there for you.
I just let the music speak to me.
BRITTANY: "Brittany," what a great name..
WILL: Oh let's go Brittany!
Oh..!
She's just a queen.
Hey.
Come on, Brittany!
Oh! Beautiful..
Her face, I just love her performing– hey! [laughs]
Oh, I love it!
Just watch her- face the whole time!
Wooo!
Her eye contact, ugh!
Yeah..
Hey, hey, hey!
Oh, yes..
Oh, the hips!
Yes!
Yeahhh!
Ha!
[squeals]
That was so good!
Let's go, Brittany!
Just such a good performer!
I'm thinking that I have to work on my performance 1000%.
BRITTANY: She not only like, captivated me right from the beginning,
she also just has such a beautiful presence on camera
and in real life.
WILL: It's not always the best idea to like, force a face on,
that doesn't work.
This, like-
I- [snickers]
like it STILL takes familiarity
with knowing how to express yourself through your face.
BRITTANY: It's a feel-good piece.
When you dance it or when you watch it,
you can't help but smile
and you get a lot of like, serotonin from it.
WILL: That's why it's also so much more of an exciting thing
to watch when it's real,
like that, 'cause it's magic..
and-
BRITTANY: Really key into her emotion throughout it,
her eye contact.
WILL: There's a deliberacy there to her focus.
You don't have to now think,
"Okay, from this time on, like-"
"I'm not losing like- my eyes in the camera."
But know WHEN and where those moments feel right
and commit to it.
BRITTANY: She like, took the time to do like,
a little jump
or even she had this one moment that really stuck with me when her like,
head went to the ceiling,
her chest was like, fully out.
WILL: When I'm able to see something like this that makes me smile,
I'm like, "Oh, I don't smile a lot when I dance."
But today I did.
Yeah, thanks, Brittany!
That was so beautiful.
JESSIE: We hope these dancers showed you
how beautiful these different styles can be.
And if you're inspired by how beautiful Ballet, Contemporary, and Jazz is
and wanna try learning them yourself,
there are Beginner programs on STEEZY Studio,
as well as tons of Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced classes,
if you wanna challenge yourself,
that you can take from these dancers as well as-
DOZENS of other world cl–
wohdlhd–
*world-class Instructors!
That was good, just keep it!
Honestly? [crew laughing in background]
We're all human!
I just got the shot,
it's like-
what more do you want from me?
You know what I'm saying?
Thank you so much as always for tuning into STEEZY's channel
and watching our videos.
Please comment down below if you have a dancer
or a certain style that you wanna see in one of these series.
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We'll see you next week!
TIFFANIE!
BRITTANY C: So we're gonna start with a really luxurious-
balancé to the right,
repeat it to the left,
balancé to the left.
WILL: Be patient,
COMMIT to the slowness of it
and it'll be SUPER hypnotic for the observer and hopefully for you doing it.
BRITTANY P: You wanna try with me?
Let's do it!
Let's go for it!
You got this,
here we go!