CIERRA: How you feel?
FRANTICK: I feel..
I don't know what I feel..
CLAY: Hey guys, it's Clay!
Welcome back to STEEZY's YouTube channel.
Just like in our video "Hip Hop vs. Ballet Dancers,"
we're gonna be having two dancers of two different dance backgrounds
learn each other's styles.
Our guests for this episode are Boogie Frantick,
a Popper,
and Cierra Crowley,
a Contemporary dancer.
Let's get started!
FRANTICK: Yo what up!
This is Ricardo "Boogie Frantick" Rodriguez Jr.
Representing the Mighty Zulu Kingz,
Funny Bones Crew,
and of course,
the STEEZY Squad.
I've been dancing for about-
36 years now.
Freestyle dancing–
POPPING..
Popping now going on 30 years.
CIERRA: Hi! My name is Cierra Crowley.
I have danced for artists like Banks,
Miguel,
and Carly Rae Jepsen.
I have been dancing since I was about five,
but mostly doing Contemporary dance for the past like- 12ish years.
CIERRA: Our left hand is gonna swoop around..
FRANTICK: Oh s**t..
CIERRA: Yeah!
FRANTICK: Swoooo-
CIERRA: Nice!
FRANTICK: Ta! CIERRA: Yeah,
and if we really think like this foot-
GOOON- is leading us, it's gonna help.
FRANTICK: Okay cool.
That's a whole different momentum right there..
CIERRA: Qwoosh!
FRANTICK: It's so INTERNAL..
CIERRA: Like very last thing- our hand's gonna kinda grab us around..
and pull us.
FRANTICK: Hah..
CIERRA: Yeah!
[laughs] FRANTICK: I can't even grab-
my elbow..
[laughs]
[laughing]
[Cierra laughs] DEVIN: Danngggggg..
FRANTICK: I look like the Terminator trying to f***in'–
[Frantick laughs] CIERRA: Noo! Not at all..!
FRANTICK: My limberness man, wow..
that was tested
one-hundred percent.
When you're in this-
really awkward position bent backwards and trying to USE-
your momentum to like-
pull yourself up..
Y'know I'm not used to SPINNING-
in a tight rotation, I'm used to just-
being able to spin very slow and-
and controlled.
But hers I just felt like-
was more centered,
y'know, and mine's-
just a little bit wider.
DEVIN: How did you feel he did?
CIERRA: Oh he killed it!
He killed my piece! Yeah, he–
smashed it!
Things LIKE something like this..
he would execute with such clarity and-
there were times where I would look at him and I'd be like,
"Oh I need to-"
"I need to clean that UP"
because he is PRECISE, you know?
I think that's what's really exciting about Contemporary is that
it can look so different on each person and still be so-
like for lack of better words,
correct, so just-
trusting yourself and then trusting that-
what you are..
showing is-
JUST as valid as the person next to you.
FRANTICK: First, a freestyle so you can kind of get an understanding of what's happening.
I'm gonna go first,
one-two-three-four,
you follow, five-six-seven-eight.
..two, three, four..
five, six, seven, eight..
CIERRA: Ah-! Oo, oo, oo, ooOOOOO! FRANTICK: Take- yeah-yeah-yeahyeahyeah!
Think of like..
putting yourself in-
very linear motions,
so everything that you do that is-
really sharp and clean..
that's how you wanna hold it.
TA, boom, boom..
Ha, ha.. boom, boom..
Ha–
Boom. That's it.
Right?
I'm gonna MAKE you wave, you're just gonna follow through.. CIERRA: Yeah.
Whoa!
FRANTICK: See that?
CIERRA: Hold it..
[Frantick laughs]
CIERRA: HOLD it..
AUGHH- okay wait-wait-
I'm ready, I'm ready.
One, two, three, four..
five, six, seven, eight.. CIERRA: Oooh!
FRANTICK: Right?
So you can play..
with ideas like that.
And I'll help you with it,
so when you get your little solo moment-
CIERRA: Aughhoaow! FRANTICK: you can..
basically just play along.
CIERRA: I think the main challenges that I had to overcome were..
finding patience
because the beat was so CONSISTENT,
it felt easy to..
either start to rush or get ahead of myself.
There are certain things where, if I had thought of it as doing
more of a Contemporary-style THING,
I would've executed more clearly.
FRANTICK: Well it was a freestyle piece, y'know?
Like we came up with it together.
I felt.. honored-
y'know? I was like, "Man, this is really dope"
cause she REALLY wanted to pick it up,
and that was our similarity..
when it comes to perfectionists, it's like,
"I wanna perfect this movement.."
"and get it tight and get it right."
Well I hope-
y'know, we showed you..
diversity.
Really being openness to pick up something new, right.
I'm- I'm here to prove, you know,
we can-
we can open up, we can adapt..
We can really, you know- SHARE
with one another and share styles and share ideas.
It's about yourself and-
you know, being proud of who you are and still-
open and willing to have fun in life.
Y'know? So enjoy it.
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Boong!
Ding the bell!
Ding!
[laughs]