- Seven, eight, (knuckles cracking)
one, two,
three, four, (feet stomping)
five, six.
Perfect.
- No. - Almost.
- Hello YouTube,
welcome to my channel.
I wanna start first off by saying,
I have a very special guest here,
who can introduce herself.
But first and foremost,
we have been tested,
we are negative,
we have been quarantined since then.
And now...
- Covid tested by the way. (chuckling)
- Oh yeah right, of course. (Galen chuckling)
- So my name is Galen Hooks.
I am a dancer and choreographer.
I am very excited just to be here.
I have been working in the industry since I was seven
and I teach in the new Galen Hooks Method now.
So I do like lots and lots
of classes for all levels of dancers,
from beginners to pros
and special people like Brie.
(Brie chuckling) So, I'm gonna be teaching her
a routine today.
And what I love to do,
is do routines that are a little bit like
Special Customized to people.
So, not only will we be doing a dance routine,
but this will be really based on
like bringing out your active chops,
and having it kind of customized for camera.
(Brie chuckling)
If you are a Scott Copeland fan,
this is a treat for you.
We're gonna do,
Black Sheep. (kids cheering)
So if you feel like learning this routine at home,
it will be a really fun one,
that anybody can do
and we'd love to see your renditions as well,
so this is not only Brie learning a routine,
but all of you can have something fun to do too.
- Okay, cool.
With that said,
I'm assuming we're just saying, stretch.
just stretch your ligaments.
(Galen chuckling)
Yeah like we did.
- Yeah, make sure you warm up.
(Galen chuckling)
(gentle music)
So on the low you're gonna go hello
and then you're gonna roll down,
again, yeah.
Seven, eight, one,
hello again,
you're a pro already.
- It's just one hand move. (chuckling)
♪ Friend of a friend ♪
♪ I knew you when ♪
(Galen humming)
- Oh, I knew you.
- Yep.
- [Both] I knew you
(Galen humming)
- Up, pull.
- Yeah.
- One, two, three, four, (knuckles cracking)
five, six, seven, eight.
You're gonna tap
one, two, three, four, except for the waiting for later.
So you're just kind of like,
tap as if you're waiting.
One, two, actually three of those.
One, two, three prep.
(Galen humming)
then go down to the floor.
And then you're gonna go on your knees,
and we have the (Brie humming)
and your hands are just gonna like crawl up,
on each of those little parts, yeah.
Since we're down here,
I'm going to show you the next part.
So it goes,
(Galen humming)
So that you're gonna go up over your head
and like slowly go,
slowly go on all fours really pretty.
So that you're gonna go (imitating song)
Drop!
♪ Hello again, friend of a friend, I knew you when ♪
♪ Our common goal was waiting for the world to end ♪
♪ Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend ♪
♪ You crack the whip ♪ - Okay, so you go.
Your left hand is gonna go to your leg.
You crack the whip (hand smacking)
on "whip" (indistinct),
crack the whip (imitating song) on shape shift.
So we're like. - Ooh.
- We're tee, the second instance is supposed to be
intentionally couched by like aggressive.
- Self (indistinct) - Yeah, anytime you're sexy
it's to tee up the next thing.
Then you're just gonna shift your knees underneath yourself
and go right around the circle.
Yeah like when you rock (indistinct)
So think of like,
yeah, exactly. Cool.
So yeah.
- [Both] (chuckling)
- So like timing is
♪ You crack the whip, shape-shift ♪
and push two, three, four.
You're just gonna rock out.
Rock, rock,
dance and rock. (steps thudding)
And we're off the floor.
- Okay, all right.
- You must step forward
now it gets like,
kind of straight forward choreography.
You step one, two.
- One, two.
- Do two stomps.
Stomp, stomp. (feet stomping)
Yeah.
(imitating music) - Six, (humming)
- Yeah.
- Boom, boom.
- Yeah.
So, (feet stomping)
- Right, three stomps.
- Oh no.
One, two, three. (feet stomping)
- Yes. - One, two.
- Arm, bow, yes. (Brie humming)
(Galen shrieking)
- No, no.
- Huh, close.
Yes.
- [Both] (chuckling)
(Galen exclaiming)
♪ Every single day you ♪
- She can be taught, folks!
- You know I (indistinct) that time.
Five, six, seven.
(hands smacking)
(Galen humming)
Five, six, (steps thudding)
On count seven,
you're gonna stop to the front.
Seven,
unless you're trying to go
(hands clapping)
Then you're gonna go,
so you're gonna like do
a strong shimmy with your right shoulder forward first.
(imitating music)
From there, you do two squats.
You're gonna go,
squat, up, squat, up.
- How?
- Yes, seven, eight.
(knuckles cracking) (feet stepping)
You just step cross behind, step cross behind.
(Galen humming)
Perfect!
You got five, six,
seven, eight, (knuckles cracking)
turn to the back,
one, two. (step thudding)
You're gonna (indistinct)
(Galen giggling) One, two
You're just gonna go kind of like,
go down your body.
Swaying backwards, yeah. - Okay
- One, two,
this is three, four, (knuckles cracking)
five, six on the
(imitating music)
Just (imitating music)
- Nice (indistinct)
- Yeah!
Look at those eyes working beautiful.
♪ Come back to me ♪
♪ You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again ♪
♪ Send you my love on a wire ♪
♪ Lift you up, every time, everyone, ♪
♪ Ooh, pulls away, ooh ♪
♪ From you ♪
- Wow.
(Galen clapping)
(indistinct)
- Right.
- Yeah.
- Remember we've been thinking about the note
and living the note.
- [Gelan] Yes, totally!
- I need to live the note.
- One thing that,
although this is like just for fun,
but I'm gonna have to do this like,
I've been thinking
but it's something that for a lot of people,
it's kind of like,
a dance note that can be applied to life,
which is to take your time.
(Gelan chuckling) - Yeah.
- So you have a tendency to do a lot of people do,
which is you're just barely ahead of the music.
And you take your time,
meaning like you're just barely behind the beat,
everything will kind of slow down
and it'll feel like the song becomes half the speed.
So that's something just like in general,
sometimes when I tell that to people they go,
"Oh, I could probably do that just in life in general."
- Okay.
Really good idea.
Galen's gonna film me now. (chuckling)
(Brie shrieking)
Okay, hope this isn't embarrassing.
♪ Hello again, friend of a friend, I knew you when ♪
♪ Our common goal was waiting for the world to end ♪
♪ Now that the truth is just a rule that you can bend ♪
♪ You crack the whip, shape-shift and trick the past again ♪
♪ Send you my love on the wire ♪
♪ Lift you up, every time, everyone, ♪
♪ Ooh, pulls away, ooh ♪
♪ From you ♪
- Oh!
Yeah!
- She survived!
- I survived!
It feels so good!
I'm totally back to my body.
And it feels good.
I'm not like something goes in (indistinct)
to be like, sensual.
- [Both] (chuckling)
- And it's actually - You need to be.
- It's actually reminding me
of when I was filming Scott Pilgrim,
the director, Edgar Wright
would call me, "Spaghetti arms"
cause actually I got light,
(Galen laughing) arm,
and I feel like I'm less annoyed
that my arms look like spaghetti because it's homage.
- Oh, this one's for you. - This one's for you, Edgar.
I wanted to just talk a little bit about where movement
and dance has been of importance to you
and maybe like sort of a guiding principle
or force in your life.
- I have been working as a dancer since I was a child.
So movement in general for me,
has become a way to understand people as a teacher.
It's a way for me to create environments
where we can all kind of feel like we're on
the same level.
- I noticed such a shift when I'm not in my body
and usually it's pretty quickly correlated.
When my mind starts to tip,
it usually means that I'm on alignment some way.
And so even, just doing a little bit of something
that gets me back into myself,
is like a really quick reset. (knuckles cracking)
Let's make a little bit of space.
Whether that's just sitting
and watching us do this,
or do you wanna join us,
I appreciate it.
And after this is all done
and you can follow along with the choreography.
I do hope that you might explore
maybe doing the video of it,
tagging us so that we can see as well.
We have what may appear to be,
like a little viral dance party.
- Yeah.
- Thank you.
Thank you guys for getting tuned in.
Can't wait to see your dance moves.
(Brie smooching)
Hope you're safe in your body.
- Bye Bye! - Bye!
(gentle music)