Random Judge Stuff

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Anonymous said...
Hi it's Nony!

Here's some stuff bogarted from twop.com. This is about the judges.

So this weekend I went to a convention with Brian, Shane, Mia and Wade, and it was absolutly amazinggg. The room was packed and it was pretty hard to move, but it was so fun.

Shane was probably the easiest, which surprised me. He's the best at really breaking things down and going over things count by count, and making sure we had the combo's. in the last combo we did, he put in one of his hand switch flip things, and that was crazy hard. He was very high energy and kept us laughing the whole time. He made fun of us not being able to booty pop. He's really short, though! It was really cute.

Brian's classes were so hard.His first class was our last class of day one, and it was a "jazz contempory hiphop". Yeah. It was to a Danity Kane song, and it was crazy fast and very stylized. The one today was more straight jazz, and was also really fast, but it was a little bit eaiser, but had more technique (leaps, turns) in it. Brian doesn't go over stuff, like, at all. You either get it or you don't. But his stuff was really fun to do. He also has a new dance shoe coming out, that he mentioned every chance he could get.

Mia's class was crazy. First off, we had like, 300 people in our room, and it was impossible to do anything fullout. It was also the last class of the day, so we were all dead. But her combo was so hard, but it was amazing. She was really cool and was very into us being "human" and all our movement not being choreographed and just letting us be free. It was a really good way to end the weekend.

Now, Wade. He comes into the class, tells us hey, walks over to the stereo, turns it on, and RAMALAMA BANG BANG comes on. Thats right. We got to learn the zombie dance. (!!!!!) The whole room was like OMGSQUEE! It was a little bit different, since we didnt have partners/stair cases, but it was easily the best dance we learned. It wasn't as hard as I thought it would be either, but getting his style is rediculously hard. He was really good at giving us directions for what he wanted, and let us have fun with the dance. He taught the intermediate room (I was in advance) part of SexyBack.

They also had a showcase where studios could bring some of their dances. They picked two dances to be shown at the end and one ended up being choreorgraphed by Melody (season 1). Brian and Mia (who were annoucing the picks) where shocked when they told them who had done it. Brian was like "From our SHOW?!" and Mia was like "No way, LegMelody?!" and did a little pitch motion with her legs. It was an awesome dance though. It was to some techno song called Satisfaction and it was very stylized and really inventive.

Anyways, sorry this is like, 1000 pages long, and that none of it makes sense. I'm pretty much brain dead after this weekend. But to end things, heres a video from the end, where they all freestyled. It was pretty awesome. In order from L-R it's Shane, Brian, Mia, Wade and Chris Judd, who also taught.

ETA: Emo Hair Ben was an assistant! He is amazing. I feel bad people didn't get to see more of him on the show. There was another guy assistant who Mia said was the dancer who comes closest to matching what she sees in her head when she choreographs, and he got really excited and blushed. He was stunning to watch.

Ok. NOW I'm done.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvRmKdoXpic

3:21 PM, November 20, 2006


By the way (Hint hint, wink wink, nudge nudge) I put a story I wrote in a blog on my MySpace (Though you won't be able to see it unless you're already my friend on there):

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