(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Victoria: Isaac is like... my teddy bear.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Myles: That dude is sick at dancing.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Lamar: He's very motivated and determined.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Let's hear it for Isaac Lupien!
(crowd cheers)
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Isaac: This tour was a very, very great experience.
Not only for dancing, but for bonding and growing as people.
- Isaac: Are we good? Is everyone okay? - Victoria: Yeah, we're good.
- Jordan: Isaac is a goofball.
(over-the-top sneezing sound effect)
- Jordan: Him and I connect when we do certain accents or take on different characters and stuff like that.
- Isaac (terrible Scottish accent): It's a great picture.
- I cut half my face off, but...
(accent:) it's, it's great.
- Trevor: Isaac's like a potato chip.
Always chillin', just like how a chip would be, you know what I mean?
Also he looks like a potato chip. (laughs)
- Briar: Trevor and Isaac just kill me, they make me laugh all the time.
(audible taps of tap shoes)
- Hey guys! Right now, I'm about to, uh, choreograph to one of the season 4 songs.
For those of you that would like to do your own choreo, you can kinda see
my process on how I get through my rough spots.
(♪ "The Hard Way" ♪)
Usually, I like to relate the song to either things that I'm feeling, or things that I've gone through,
and kinda try and build from there.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
This song is called "The Hard Way", and when I was growing up,
I was always made to do things the hard way,
and I never understood it, but eventually it brought me up to who I am now,
so I'm gonna kind of relate it to that.
- Trevor: You just choreographing right now?
- Kinda, I'm just finishing the ending. You wanna see it?
- Yeah.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Isaac: What I love about doing choreo with other people is
it's like an exchange of energy.
And really cool things come out of it.
- Trevor: Then, then take it in.
Yeah, beast!
- Lamar: Ah, there we go! There it is. - Trevor: There it is. Yeah.
- Trevor: Beast! - Lamar: Oh, beast!
- That'll work. - All: Yeah.
- Trevor: Alright, lit. - Isaac: Cool, thanks guys.
- Trevor: Snap it. - Lamar: Cool... Yeah!
- Yeah, I think... I think that's the... that's the ending right there.
So yeah, I guess I'll run it one more time.
- ♪ 'Cause there's a reason we belong ♪
♪ Like it was reaching out ♪
♪ And destiny was calling ♪
♪ But there's no sympathy when you're wrong ♪
♪ I've gone and figured out (Oh, oh, oh, oh) ♪
♪ I figured out the hard way ♪
(♪ ♪ ♪)
♪ (Oh, la la la la la la la la, yeah) ♪
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Cool!
So, that's kinda the base of what the choreo will look like.
Uh, that took me about 20 minutes...
to do... eight counts of eight, approximately.
I'm gonna keep working at it, keep making it better,
and hopefully it'll, uh, all come together in the end.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Isaac: So, we got to Porto, in Portugal,
and went to this dance studio.
We met our teacher, his name is Jacques.
- Isaac: Jacques, nice to meet you.
Hi, Isaac. Nice to meet you.
- Oh, Jacques.
What a sweetie-peetie.
- I wanted to explore a new type of dance
'cause I love all art forms of dance.
You know, I was trained in ballet, tap, jazz, gymnastics, hip-hop.
You know, basically, everything you would see on a show like So You Think You Can Dance,
I would do, except for the Latin.
- Jordan: I had so much fun, I loved doing any Latin dancing or anything like that.
So, I was so excited to learn from somebody actually in Portugal.
- He started by just teaching us some, you know, easy steps to begin with, to kinda get into it.
- Jacques: One, two, sha-sha-sha.
One, two, sha-sha-sha.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- And then, um, he started to switch it up a bit, teach us kinda some formation changing stuff.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
(Jordan, Trevor & Isaac excited)
- Trevor: Let's go, Jordy!
(Jordan laughs, Isaac woos)
- Jordan: Nailed it.
- Isaac: Yeah, he, he was all about, like, just having fun with it, and,
it was more for yourself than performing for an audience.
'Cause you could kind of just groove and, and feel good
doing what you do, and it's not about other people, it's about
your love for dance, and,
and sharing your love with your partner, or
with the group that you're with.
- Jacques: Many schools, academies, uh, creating some stress,
uh, when the students begin to dance.
We don't want stress.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Isaac: Hey! - (Trevor laughs)
- Woo!
Ha!
- Jacques: Pivot, sha-sha-sha.
Pivot, sha-sha-sha.
- Trevor: It was cool to actually learn some cha-cha from my homie Jacques,
who's all about love, and he's just like yes, like feel the movement.
- (Jordan howling, boys approving) - Jordan: Yeah!
- Trevor: I was getting into it, with the one, two, sha-sha-sha.
One, two, sha-sha-sha. (laughs)
- Both: Can you teach us something? - Jordan: Together? - Isaac: Like, partner work? Like, together?
- Jacques: Ah, yes. - Jordan: Yeah? Is that okay?
- We got to do a bit of partnering, which was a lot of fun,
I did a bit of partnering with Jordan.
- There it is, there it is.
- Isaac: Uh, and then...
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Isaac: Oh! Jordy!
... Okay.
Jacques stole my partner.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
... I'm kinda sad.
(♪ ♪ ♪)
- Jordan: Not really sure who I liked more...
Sorry, I.
- Jordan: Wait, can you guys dance together?
- Trevor: Yeah! - Jordan: Come on! Come on! - Isaac: Yeah!
- Isaac: Yeah!
(Jordan, Trevor & Isaac wooing and making noises of encouragement)
- Isaac: Jacques and his partner were incredible.
Jacques has been teaching and dancing for
I don't know how many years, but
he is incredible.
(applause and cheers)
- Isaac: Probably one of the main things that I'll take away from Jacques' class,
and this is something I've always loved,
is just sharing your energy and sharing dance.
You know, to see someone who still believes in that concept,
I think, um, that kinda sat with me, and I'll keep that forever.
- Trevor: We were awful. - Jordan: Yeah, we were awful.
(everyone agreeing)
(Trevor laughs)
- Jordan: I was so lost at one point. - Trevor: It's always like that, every time I do like a Latin thing, it's like... so different.
- Isaac: It's so diff-- yeah.
- Trevor: We know exactly what's coming next, always, but it's just like... - Isaac: Even... yeah.
- Jordan: Jacques is a really good partner, by the way guys.
- Isaac: Is he? - Trevor: See, I didn't get a chance to partner Jacques.
- Isaac: Neither did I. - Trevor: I'm kind of upset.
- Jordan: I know. I was upset for you guys. - Isaac: I thought we were gonna be able to do that, but I guess not.
- Trevor: I think-- Jacques!
- Isaac: Jacques's busy.
- Jordan: I know, I know. - Isaac: Come on. Hey!
- This is the thing with dance.
No matter where you go, in the world,
you're always gonna have a different experience.
Everyone has their own way of teaching, everyone has their own way of moving,
or expressing things to you.
So you're always gonna have a different experience.
The thing that will always stay the same
is... dance.
The fact that you're always having a different experience
makes it sort of the same experience every time.
So it's this kinda balance of everything's different but will always be the same.
(♪ ♪ ♪)