Entertaining Children

  Chapter 197 Borrowing Skills

The opening duet designed by Xiao Yao for Zhou Jingyi and Paul was born out of the two dances "MakeItWork" and "IGotYou" in the previous American version of "Magic World", which removed the inverted backfold that was difficult for girls in the original dance. The body is still and other floor movements, but the more novel, interesting and simple movements are retained.

  For two people, these movements are not very difficult. Among them, the more conventional movements that two people do at the same time need to be neat, and the movements made by the two people must be consistent. It is not difficult to find out the rhythm of the music and one's own movements when practicing with music.

  Two of the unconventional hip-hop movements, one is that Zhou Jingyi's body leans back from the knee joint after she is close to Paul. Paul needs to reach out to the back of Zhou Jingyi's neck to catch her when Zhou Jingyi's upper body is parallel to the ground. In the other place, Paul slipped and knelt away from Zhou Jingyi and got up and fell backwards. Zhou Jingyi also needed to rush to Paul's back before Paul fell to the ground and reach out to catch him at the back of his head. This kind of action that requires the support of the other party is to be done well, and you must have enough confidence and trust in each other, believing that the other party can catch yourself before you fall. This requires the two to practice the tacit understanding and proficiency of cooperation. .

  In addition, Zhou Jingyi will learn a finger dance with Xiao Yao. In the original "IGotYou", there was a female dancer standing behind the male dancer, putting out two hands from the male dancer's armpit, and guiding the male dancer's expression through the fingers of the two hands. However, in this version edited by Xiao Yao, the hero and the heroine are not sad, so naturally they don't need their fingers to guide their expressions. However, Xiao Yao thought this action was very interesting, so he simply asked the heroine to stand behind the hero and put his hands out to do a finger dance.

  After watching Xiao Yao’s explanation, instruction and demonstration of the opening duet dance moves by Xiao Yao, they already admired Xiao Yao from the bottom of their hearts. It seems to be a movement that is not very complicated or difficult, but with Xiao Yao's choreography and fantastic ideas, they suddenly have a refreshing feeling, and I sighed that street dance can still be choreographed like this. It doesn’t have to be a scene full of power and intense, this kind of freshness between lovers can also be expressed by street dance.

  After alone instructing Zhou Jingyi and Paul's first part of the opening duet dance, Xiao Yao asked them to practice alone, and walked to the rest of the group of dancers.

Xiao Yao did not directly explain the movements of the group dance, but asked everyone to introduce themselves: "The last time I came, Jin had introduced me, and everyone knew my name was Yang. But at that time I only knew TJ and Paul’s names. So in addition to TJ, I want you to introduce yourself first. I don’t want to call you "buddies" when rehearsing later. I'm afraid you won’t be able to tell who I’m talking about."

   "How come?" Zhou Jingyi and Paul practiced their pas de deux on their own. The rest of the group was led by the black youth TJ. He said with some confusion: "Just now you clicked on eight people in one breath, and they are the eight of our Popin jumping best. I guess Jin has introduced the whole team to you privately these days. Otherwise, how can you pick people so accurately. Didn't she tell you the names of the members when she introduced you to our team members?"

  "Jin introduced me to the team members? How can Jin introduce me to me when you are not present?" Xiao Yao also asked a little strangely.

  "Because Kim is responsible for our team's registration for the National Street Dance Competition, all of our members have a resume with her. Didn't she introduce us to the photo on the resume?" TJ said.

"Oh, it turned out to be like this," Xiao Yao suddenly shook his head and said, "No, I have been busy choreographing and scoring these days. I haven't gone to the supermarket to work, and I haven't seen Jin at all. I saw you last time. When I arrived, I was still here."

   "Then how do you know that eight of them in our team are best at popin?" TJ puzzled.

   "I saw it when I visited your rehearsal last time." Xiao Yao said. "Although I don't know their names, I remember the characteristics of each of them."

  "You remembered all of us after watching it for half an hour last time?" TJ said in disbelief.

   "I have a better memory, and this is also one of my talents." Xiao Yao smiled.

   "Well," the black youth was defeated, "I really don't know what kind of guy Jin brought us."

   "What do you mean?" Xiao Yao was taken aback.

"Nothing," the black young man shook his head, "In that case, let's start with my introduction. My name is Terrence Jackson. Everyone calls me TJ. If you like this simple initial designation, you can. Call me Terry."

   "No problem, I just call you TJ like everyone else. I like this name." Xiao Yao smiled.

After TJ took the lead, the rest of the team members also introduced their names to Xiao Yao one by one. Xiao Yao knew and remembered the names of these dozens of people. It is convenient to call them when explaining the actions later. too much.

  Zhou Jingyi and Paul are the core of the whole dance. Xiao Yao also spends the most thought on the dance movements of the two. In comparison, there are no unexpected and novel movements in the later part of the group dance.

The movements Xiao Yao designed in the group dance part are basically the movements they would have originally. Many of the difficult movements of a single person are originally the most proud of the person’s skills, which can be regarded as tailor-made for them. . Basically, they don't need to learn new moves. The main task is to practice well in line with the rhythm of the music and maintain the consistency and integrity of the team's overall performance.

  In the third part of the battle between zombies and normal people, the scene is more intense, and the unique skills of several people are arranged to be shown separately in this part. But most of these outstanding talents are players who play normal people. In comparison, those who jump Popin feel that they are not so brilliant.

  After Xiao Yao explained all the movements of the second and third part of the group dance, some popin players approached Xiao Yao and put forward this point.

"Although I only watched some separate individual moves, I think this dance is good enough. But I also have a question," a thin boy named Rick said to Xiao Yao, "I feel the second part Compared with the first and third parts, is it too common?"

"If you only look at the action, it is indeed the case." Xiao Yao smiled and nodded, "but the second part is not the action, or if you only look at the action, you can't see the main point of the second part. The highlight of the second part needs some other things to cooperate."

   "Other things cooperate?" Rick asked immediately, "What is it?"

  "It will be kept confidential for now, and it will be announced during the next rehearsal. I will bring the things at that time. You will know when you look at it." Xiao Yao sold it.

   "Hey, why keep it confidential. Young, you can't do that!" Rick called immediately.

   "Why?" Xiao Yao smiled, "Paul said, you all listen to my choreography, so I can do that."

   "You..." Rick glared at Xiao Yao, but didn't know what to say to the rogue choreographer.

"Okay," Xiao Yao patted Rick on the shoulder and comforted, "I know that you are the leader of this group of zombies. Will give you a surprise."

  After speaking, Xiao Yao left him, found Zhou Jingyi and Paul again, and began to explain to them the movement of the fourth part of the dance.

   "The emotional conflict in this part is very intense, with many intimate actions," Xiao Yao first introduced to the two of them, "I hope you two will not be too shy and twitchy."

  As soon as Xiao Yao said this, Zhou Jingyi was a little embarrassed immediately. Paul asked very interestedly: "How close is it?"

  "In addition to the intimate physical contact of some lifting movements, there are also separate kissing movements!" Xiao Yao laughed.

   "What!" Zhou Jingyi and Paul both shouted at the same time.

  The two people screamed loudly in unison, and even the other team members who were practicing the group dance were also startled and came over curiously.

   "What's wrong?" TJ asked the two of them, "Is there any problem?"

   "Young said that we have kissing in our dance." Paul said to TJ, not knowing what expression to put on his face.

"What?" TJ also screamed, then looked at Xiao Yao: "Yang, I thought Jin was your girlfriend. I didn't expect that the dance you choreographed would make her kiss others in the public. You really generous!"

   "What?" Xiao Yao was surprised this time. "Me and Kim are just good friends, she is not my girlfriend."

   "So you made up her dance of kissing others in public?" TJ continued to ask.

   "No, this is a plot need, and it has nothing to do with whether she is my girlfriend or not." Xiao Yao quickly explained.

   "Can you get rid of the kissing action?" Zhou Jingyi looked at Xiao Yao and suddenly said.

   "Huh? It's not appropriate to remove it." Xiao Yao shook his head. Seeing some changes in Zhou Jingyi's face, Xiao Yao hurriedly continued: "But I know some borrowing techniques that can make the audience look like you are kissing, but in fact your lips are not touching at all. This technique is the United States. It doesn’t seem to be used much here, but Huaxia’s movies and TV series, especially in the series, are often used. I know several methods. If you need it, I can teach you."

   "Of course it needs." Zhou Jingyi nodded immediately.

   "I thought it would be a good thing that our choreography knows a lot," Paul smiled bitterly at TJ next to him, "but I hate why Yang knows so much now."

   "Paul!" Zhou Jingyi glared at Paul dissatisfiedly.

   "Just kidding!" Paul quickly raised his hands and explained.

"I'm very interested in the borrowing technique that Yang said. Since Yang said he wants to teach you, it is better to teach it now. Let's see what this technique is like." TJ said, I don't know if he is really interested or not. In order to relieve Paul's embarrassment.

   "Okay," Xiao Yao nodded, "I always have to teach sooner or later anyway. You, including Paul, all stand on my right."

  The dancers immediately stood to one side obediently and looked at Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi with interest.

   Xiao Yao stood still facing Zhou Jingyi. Seeing Zhou Jingyi's nervous look, Xiao Yao smiled, and then very domineering and steadily hugged Zhou Jingyi's left shoulder. The two faces quickly got close. When the distance between them was only a few centimeters, Xiao Yao Leaning forward with Zhou Jingyi in his arms, cleverly blocked the sight of all the dancers on the side.

   "Wow!" From the position of the dancers, the two clearly kissed each other. Although Xiao Yao said it was false, they couldn't help but clamor.

   "Young! What is he doing?" Even Dean, who was far away, exclaimed.

  (End of this chapter)