- You are?
- Mariah.
- Mariah, I'm David, nice to meet you.
- I try not to scream, but, they look scary.
- [Woman] We brought two seemingly different
groups of people into our studio
to see if they could unite in a
one-of-a-kind dance challenge.
What is your favorite dance move?
- My favorite dance move is
the bow and arrow.
- I like to just kind of get loose.
Kinda gotta feel it.
- So you have to catch your leg
and then you have to stand on one foot.
I've been practicing but I cannot do it.
- A mix of hip-hop and modern dance.
- I like doing the...
- I have no skills whatsoever.
I'm just gonna be jammin'.
- [Woman] Are you ready for me to
tell you what you're gonna do?
- Yes.
- [Woman] Today you'll be choreographing
a 60 second dance routine...
To a song that I'll be giving you.
- Okay.
- [Woman] What do you think?
You'll only have 30 minutes
to choreograph and practice it
before your final performance.
- Oh, really?
I thought someone was coaching us.
- It's in us.
- Oh, shoot...
- [Woman] Well actually, we are going to add
a few more people to your team.
- Oh wow.
- Hi.
- [David] Twinkle toes.
- Hi, teammates.
- I definitely pictured adults.
It threw me off track
when I saw the little kids come out.
- The adults look like pirates,
because they're wearing pirate hats.
- You are?
- Mariah.
- Mariah, I'm David, nice to meet you.
- I try not to scream, but, they look scary.
- Preston.
- Preston, Preston, Mariah.
Nice to meet you.
- [Woman] All right team, this is your song.
- Definitely not what I had in mind.
- Woohoo!
- [Woman] Your 30 minutes begins in
3...
2...
1.
- Uh-oh. Okay.
What do you want?
- What do you guys think?
- Would you guys dance to this music?
- Is that how we're gonna start?
Okay.
- I got another dance.
- Oh, we needed another dance.
What you got?
Oh, I could do that one.
Oh, I seen that one before.
Their moves were completely different
from what I had in mind.
I have a daughter also, she's 11 years old.
So it just brings me back to when she was little
and she used to like dancing.
- I could show you how to do my poem
and then we could do it in the song!
- A poem?
- From my school.
And then we stomp our feet, then we say la-la-la,
and then we do the cha-cha-cha.
- We could save that for the next one.
- The process for coming up with the dance
was experimental but very collaborative.
- You can do whatever you want.
Like, you could do ballet.
You could do jazz.
You could do hip-hop.
- 18 minutes.
- Aw...
Thank you!
- I was scared of the two scary mans
but I wasn't scared of the lady.
I kept hugging her because I liked her.
- Hi.
When energies got a little all over the place,
the timer was very present.
- Those 30 minutes were fun,
'cause they were like a race.
- Every move didn't always start
to the left, go to the right,
back to the left kind of thing.
Which, yeah, we could have done.
But, time was counting down and
we had to get our routine.
Okay, we gotta go faster.
- I bet any y'all can do the splits.
- Well, we can't to do the split-- Well, you might.
- We only have eight more minutes.
- I'm a bit confused with the ending there.
So, maybe we could try that again?
- Just watch me.
- Oh, I am watching you.
- I thought they were doing really good for adults.
- Can you guys think of something at the end?
- I think the ending we can all
do whatever we want and just be silly.
- Sure! Like...
- [David] I agree with her.
- I mean like, Jessica, you can see,
y'know, very, very skilled.
Especially her spins.
- I'm so sweaty.
Two more minutes.
- And they were running around, but,
they were having fun and I was
just going with the flow.
- We only have one more minute.
- One more minute!?
- Now it's time to really dial it in,
because we're outta time.
- [Mariah] I need a break, I'm sweaty.
- I personally needed more time.
Hopefully it all looks good and cute and all that.
- My main thing was,
what dance move should I do at the end?
With this music that was playin'
it was kinda hard to master that finale.
- Before the big performance I felt really nervous.
- We did it!
- I think it was really good.
- We didn't get that far with our choreography,
but we made do.
- I mean, today was completely out of my element.
You know, I figured we're too hardcore to dance,
but we did it today.
- I feel good because I like being silly and wild.
- I feel like I made some friends today.
- The biggest thing about today,
and working with kids,
that most people are scared to death of,
there's nothing to be afraid of.
You just go with it and have fun with them
and listen to them.
You also realize kids have
really great ideas at times.
They can think outside the box,
where many of us can't.
- I...
Am going...
To do...
The splits.
Shouldn't force myself.
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