Welcome back to STEEZY's YouTube channel or if it's your first time here, welcome!
It's your boy ClayDohBoon and your girl Jessie Ma and
we're here for the first episode of three freestylers and one song. That's
right, in the past we had choreographers prepare pieces to the same song but in
this new series we're gonna have our friends freestyle or improvise on the
spot. The song that we're using is a banger called never count on me by
haywyre. Let's get into it! Dancer number 1:
Branlee Querubin. Whatsup yall? I'm Branlee. I'm originally from the Bay Area
I'm currently reppin Orange County. I danced with Kaba Modern and most recently, Hall
of Fame. I pulled from like popping, house, locking and a little bit like New Jack Swing.
I think it's really important to learn the foundations of all of these because
funk styles, street styles, fundamental styles like that they don't teach you
just moves they teach you building blocks to create your own expression for
this one I think I found myself trying to do more popping or like feeling more
like it was a poppin groove I think the biggest thing for me is trying to decide
which layer to move on balancing that and trying not to like
look like you're all over the place
They already hear it
No
I love his isolation
I can't even say anything he's so good!
He hit the piano though!!
Dang that's what I wanted to do!
Oh man okay. I'm like ahhh the whole time. I love that you could see the music flow
through his body and that's something that I wish I could do and I know that
that's like influence of his style. I can tell that he's had some training and
popping and then that's had a big influence on the way he moves everybody
learns has learned different things and has experienced different things and
those experiences heavily influence to the way you move he embodied the music
for sure and that's what blew me away the first time and then that those piano
keys at the end that's not a cool man. I'm like sweating hold on wait look
I'm a big supporter of like understanding your foundation and where things come
from but I love it when people can take something and then make it their own you
know what I mean. Dancer number two: Kristin Santiago
Hi I'm Kristin Santiago I am from Durban Maryland but I rep DC
and I am currently with Culture Shock LA. I love freestyle I've freestyled ever
since I was little my parents pretty much just told me to do moves for a
Filipino parties and then I just started dancing! I love poetry I love free
writing I love storytelling so I think I pull
from that. I think that the number one thing is to let your body and your mind
and your heart connect because if you overthink it and it just doesn't seem
as authentic. It's your voice when you don't have to say a word! This song
blew me out of the water like I there's so much stuff to play with!
I gave myself a high five.
The whacking styles nice
Come on Kristin!
Nice, dope! Just with Kristin, she just has like this presence she like
commands the attention and she wants you in that moment as she's doing her like
moves she's also thinking about like the
groove she's thinking about how her upper body looks versus her lower body
because she does this thing where she's up here even her own focus is like up
here and then she's like doing this here so she's very aware of all the things
she's doing. I thought she took her time I think she
didn't rush through it necessarily she had some good like pauses and some good
moments and I think when you're rushing you're just trying to like hit
everything in the music and you're it's you can tell that it's forced
you know she found her pocket in the music yeah. I also like how she hit like
a little bit of like hip-hop like heavy groove within that like whack within her
like whack cuz you don't see that often it's like whacking is very pose pose like
very like sharp and like it moves through at least where you see a lot of
whacking. It's so good. Dancer number three: Precise. What's up y'all my name is
precise from Los Angeles representing versastyle Dance Company and Sou Botics Krew
I've been training in freestyle dance for a very long time I've received
training in house and hip hop and popping and locking and many other dance
forms. Freestyle is something that I'm doing every day I don't necessarily come
up with stuff its just things just come out. I think I was challenged by the song
because there was a lot of different sounds in the music. I think you can
pick and choose what you want to accent in the music you know change it up when
you want to change it up
Wow
Wow he's floating!
Come on Precise!
Yooo that patience!
yeah again
Yes you better get at that piano too! Dang they got that piano yes yo he's so confident bro
That shouldn't be allowed like everything is so clean and it's
crisp like when he hit that like leg move on the violin part like that's so
hard to do but he made it so easy legwork up to the hips the chest
everything like flowed through their body he's got a strong very very strong
foundation and just like the simple things he's got such a nice wave style
there's a very clear pathway this this thing right here like that like he came
out of that like just from like a full body wave away from the camera and did it
in this shoulder pocket and that's crazy that only comes with just a super strong
foundation. This is my first time actually meeting him and then speaking
to him and knowing like his background his knowledge and stuff like it's so
it's so raw like it's amazing and I just love the work he puts in and I love what
he he creates of his body and just like letting the music ride just like the
idea of his concepts they're all very clear like he hit this like whole thing
use that to direct your attention and go to like a foot wave like that was crazy
Thank you all for tuning in again and make sure that you subscribe to STEEZY
if you want to see more awesome dance videos and let us know in the comments
below if you like this new freestyle series and if so who you want to see in
the next episode PS special thanks to Haywyre for this song
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