KAI: And pu-da-da boom-
that was NOT medium, that was speed.
Slow down.
That's throwing me off.
PU-DA-DA
WOOOO!
[Jesse yells frustratingly]
JESSIE: I'm back..!
or should I say..
WE'RE back!
It's your girl Jessie and your baby Miso
and welcome back to STEEZY's YouTube channel!
Just like we did with Hip Hop vs. Ballet
and Popping vs. Contemporary,
you're gonna see dancers with movements based in two different styles,
Lite Feet and House,
learn each other's choreography.
Our guests for this episode are:
Lite Feet dancers Kai Lin and Jackie "C Lock,"
as well as House dancers Jesse Smith and G'bari Gilliam.
And if you like what you see in today's episode,
be sure to hit that subscribe button-
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Let's get started!
Hey guys, my name is Kai,
aka "Kai Dragon."
I'm a part of a crew called Brotherhood,
Lite Feet specifically, I've been doing for about 15 years.
C LOCK: Hi, my name is Jackie,
aka "C Lock,"
I've been dancing Lite Feet for like 2 years.
JESSE: Hi, my name is Jesse!
I dance with G'bari here on our crew, Synthesoul-
I've been doing House dance for about 4 or 5 years.
G'BARI: And what's up everybody! My name is G'bari,
aka "GQ,"
I'm also a member of Synthesoul
and I'm also a member of Versa Style Dance Company
and I've been doing House dance for about 9 to 10 years now.
G'BARI: The Jack is the groove of House dance.
We're gonna start by working on that.
Let's go- hey!
HEY!
Hey! KAI: We're doin' it!
G'BARI: Seven, eight- go ONE–!
..two, three, four,
five, six and seven,
eight- and-a!
G'BARI: We really wanna make sure we got that up-and-down feeling going.
House also uses a lot of the hips,
so we wanna sink into the hips just a little bit.
Yeeeeeeeeeeah.
KAI: Take it arounddd townnn! [laughing]
G'BARI: -eight, and-a one AND two AND three..
JESSE: Party party party..
Party party party..
House is a..
club..
dance..
G'BARI: House house, house house..
It's a feeling feeling feeling feeling..
KAI: Chill~!
JESSE: Chill chill chill..
G'BARI: Only thing that- you really need to remember is just
breathe through it.
Breathe through it- relax your body.
Allow your body to move-
so just kinda like go with the flow..
KAI: Aye.. [claps]
Aye.. there it is!
[Kai cheering & laughing]
G'BARI: And there we have it folks.
JESSE: House!
C LOCK: You're just flowing everywhere bro..
Yeah I don't know what I'm doing..
KAI: Doing House has a lot to do with
how loose and how groovy somebody can feel.
C LOCK: It's not as structured,
you don't really know what comes next.
KAI: It's really important to like-
be as authentic and honest when you move.
The more I'm Jacking, the more I BREATHE,
the more natural I feel.
C LOCK: Letting it loose,
and not think about like-
if I'm gonna mess up or not.
JESSE: Bomb.
They did bomb.
G'BARI: Kai was like sitting into the pocket of it really nicely, he was-
JESSE: He was just so-
SUAVE..
He was like..
G'BARI: Some tips for me would be to continue sitting into that pocket
and feeling that suave groove.
JESSE: I would say that the dance comes first.
It's choreography,
but it COMES from the club.
G'BARI: People were literally just moving,
all the technique came later.
Gotta make sure you're grooving it out!
Put that groove in there!
JESSE: Right!
G'BARI: ..that Jack!
JESSE: Right!
G'BARI: Jack yo body..
JESSE: MOVE yo body.. [G'bari laughs]
House!
BOTH: Dance dance dance dance dance..
KAI: Now we're gonna do something called a Tic Tac Toe-
this is like to build up the hype,
and let people know the Lock-In is coming.
One and two AND..
Five..
six..
C LOCK: Oh like this way?
KAI: Yeahh like he like-
That's steezy..
JESSIE & G'BARI: STEEZY..
G'BARI: Yeah? [Kai laughs]
KAI: Most people do like a combover..
KAI: Easy, right? JESSE: Oh my GOODNESS..
KAI: If you guys like-
being House dancers or just like good dancers period,
like- you just..
catch it.
Lite Feet is not a solo dance.
Like when you're with other people,
it's getting everybody like- hype and like, dancing with everybody.
KAI: BA BA, AH AH, BU-KA-DA, BOOM!
[Jesse yells]
[indistinct chatter]
KAI: One more time, AH..
BA-BA-BA–
JESSE: Lite Feet, I feel, is so-
like you have to PUNCTUATE things..
and I.. ummm..
did not.
G'BARI: The rhythm and the placement of weight was so different from House,
that I was kinda like,
trying to.. make it make sense to my body.
JESSE: Everything is so like-
Doing House is always like-
G'BARI: I think the hardest section for me was definitely the Tic Tac Toe section..
the right, the left..
the left, the right..
You could see me just like-
the SHOCK in my eyes that I actually finished it.
JESSE: The hardest part for ME was the Bad One.
G'BARI: It was a bad one.
JESSE: It was a BAD one..
G'BARI: If I did it again, I would SHOW my confidence-
JESSE: You're not just chilling,
You're SHOWIN' UP to this Lite Feet choreo right now.
Having people around me who are also in that same energy,
like GOT me to that energy.
KAI: I feel like the House dancers..
killed it.
C LOCK: I think it was too easy for them.
Yeah..
yeah.
I think that's about it.
KAI: To see them like, laugh and like- also just, y'know, have fun with it-
it.. brings them closer to-
Lite Feet.
C LOCK: I really like how they were like-
very loose..
when they were doing the Bad One..
or like even the Rev Up..
It was lit.
Yeah..
KAI: It was LIT..
[C Lock laughs]
KAI: Some of the tips I would give to anyone learning Lite Feet is
really just about- personalizing the movement.
Also research the music and like-
the root of like- where Lite Feet comes from,
that full package is what's gonna help you-
learn Lite Feet and understand like- the language.
JESSIE: Thank you so much for watching
and thank you to these talented dancers for being a part of today's video!
You can find them on social media- here!
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We'll see you next week!
-AND..
WOW, it's been a long time since I did this..