Video: Ben Feels the Beat of NYC with Choreo from HELL'S KITCHEN
Jan 30, 2025
In this video, Ben breaks down Camille A Brown's Tony-nominated choreography for Broadway's Hell's Kitchen with the help of dance captains Raechelle Manalo, William Roberson, and Nico DeJesus.
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Hello, you big beautiful Broadway world. It's me, your Broadway buddy, Ben Cameron, back again with a long, awaited episode of Dance Captain Dance Attack
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It's been a while since we've been dancing and befooting with you, so I'm super excited to have you here with us
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Today we are saying one thing and one thing only, and that is, let's hear it for New York
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Because at long last, after much pleading and begging and stomping of my big gay feet, we get to dance with the dance captain
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from one of my favorite musicals of all time, Hell's Kitchen. And if you haven't seen it, get a ticket if you can
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It is absolutely magical. But what's really crazy and exciting about today's episode
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never been done before, well I'll show you. Let's welcome our dance captains, Rachel Ma
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But wait, there's more. Welcome Willie Robertson! But wait, there's more. There's more in our first triple threat three-peat dance captain extravaganza
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Welcome back to the show, Nico the Hensu! Nico's here! What an entrance
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All right, I'm excited. It's a triple fret three-peat today. Friend, are you ready? This is where we holding up
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Let's have a dance captain dance attack! We are learning the last big dance phrase from the show
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It's in some entire state of mind. It is a celebration. It is euphoric
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It is cathartic. The first lyric is, she'd be spiked out, and we're going to explode on count one, and it goes, whew
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We have a big jump explosion on count one. She'd be spiked out
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We twist the knees and we break the elbows. Nice we have a split of the legs we go a circle with the hands and the legs would open Three who Yeah yes Sheepy spiked out she be trippo referee and then we have this release this drop and we go
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foo, whew, too, foo. Yes. We have a few hypo jumps and we're gonna go left, left, right, left
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So it's a up. Yes. Oh, I remember right, yes. I'm gonna look so stupid here we go
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Great, all right for this up, we're gonna have two accents to the right
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Oh yes, nice. The next line goes, tell about, tell from her attitude that she's most definitely from
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So we're gonna take it out of pointer fingers and we're gonna jump out and do a pointed gesture
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We're gonna split the legs, the left leg's gonna go front, Nice
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So we're gonna go, A, A, A. Tell the one, out of the two, hey
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Oh, four, yes, Tell us, Tup, Taw, T. We're gonna open the legs
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and then we're gonna shift. The arms are gonna go, one, two, three, one, two, three
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One, two, three. Nice, the legs are gonna go, right, five, right
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to the left. One, two, three, arms and down. Yes. Yes. Oh, there's a split
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Ba, ba, ba, ba. Okay, one, two, three, one, two, three. Excellent
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Shall we keep that way? I think so, yeah. Right, we just went. T題, ta, t, ta, t, bha
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We have a head accent to the right and to the left. Up, down, up, down, up, down
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Yes, sweet. Nice, so the rhythm goes, B. B, b, b, b, b, b, b, b
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One, two, one, two, three. Up down, up, down. Hey! That's where we lose the glasses
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Up, down, up down. Huh. Yeah. Yes sir Excellent Thank you Go A A eh eh Tell her about her attitude that she most definitely from from from Yep
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The next lyric is, Statue of Liberty, home of the world trade
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Great, so we have, like, hu, huh, we have two ticks. Tata, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta. Yeah
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World Trade. Home of the world trade. And you're underclap. Underclap. Alright, this next step is you have one round like this
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and the other hand is dropping the stint rope. Okay. And we have down and we're right right first and we go
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damn, down. So there, look, there. So are you going to make it
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One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. I'm laughing because I love it
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I don't know what I can do it, but I love. Just do that. two, three, four. Yeah
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I do, go, yeah! We have a cross turn to that. Thank God
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The easy thing we can do it. Yeah! We're gonna face it this way
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so it's not full of the turn. It's like a three-quarters, so we can double arms out. Foo! Foo! Yes
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So we have world trade, and a one, and a one, cross, go! Yeah
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Punch and that right Tybo Yeah Punch and up Baseball bat Punch and baseball bat Yes
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You better get the timing too, yes. Yes. All right, here we go
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State that. You can put the right knee. That. That. Hey. Hey
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You could swat up the arms however you like. Okay. Five. Six, hey
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Say, hey. Hey! Oh! New your step, new step. That's the way the rhythm goes
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New step. New step. New step. New step. New step. The arms are going
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New back and the back. Back and right, left, right. Right, left, right
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And then back and down. Back and back. And bring it up
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And bring it up. And then button. Bottom. And the button? Yes. continue. Yes. Yes. Yes
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She is hyped down. She could trip a referee. Hey, Yeah, Tell by attitude that she won't step in it from
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Statue of Liberty home of the world trade. Hey, hey, yeah. Mom in the queen
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Yon, she's from the empire state. That's, that's, that's, that. New York, New York
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New York. Oh my gosh, we did
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Let's hear it. Not one from New York. We're finishing incredible dance captains
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Nika, William, Rachel, thanks to Art, New York Studios. It's fabulous here
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And now it's your turn, my friends, to show your inner New Yorker
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from the choreography field all of the plus. Post on your socialist. hashtag DCBA, how the fish of broadband roll, and the bed does Broadway
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Be good to your dance captains, be good to each other. Ready, and... One, two, three
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