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Video: Ben is a Smooth Criminal with the Choreo from MJ
May 17, 2024
In this video of Dance Captain Dance Attack!, Ben gets hit by a smooth criminal as he dances to Christopher Wheeldon's Tony-winning choreography from MJwith the help of Dance Captains Kamille Upshaw and Kali May Grinder. Can you keep up?
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Oh, hello, you beautiful Broadway world
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It's me, your Broadway buddy, Ben Cameron. And I hope that you are stretched, I hope that you are warm
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I hope that you have said a prayer to whatever deed you believe in, because today, on Dance Captain Dance Attack
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we are going more hardcore, more funky, fantastic, more iconic than ever before
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because I'm learning choreography from MJ the musical. If you've not seen the show, you're an idiot
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and what are you been doing with your life? You've got to go see it. The choreography is unbelievable. unbelievable. I am incredibly nervous about this. So hopefully my friends, the dance captains from MJ, can help me out. So please welcome Kelly May Reinder and give me upshot
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Do la da da da da da da da da no No! Hi! Hi
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Okay. You guys just came from rehearsal. You are in knee deep in it and ready. Yes
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I've got my rehearsal skirt on. I'm in the studio. We're about to take this on tour
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Rehearsal skirt. Obviously. Because then when I'm screwing up the feet. When I'm screwing up the feet, you'll just watch this go who. Exactly. Exactly
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Are you ready to do this? I'm ready. Let's go, Jack. Let's have a dance captain
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Dance Attack! Yeah, we're going to start. We're going to start. Nice light first position
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I like the light first. Yeah, we're not going to break the hips. We just put in a nice light
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Well, I already have. That's the truth. We're going to take our arms right over left
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Yes, we're going to click one and. So head and arm. One, and from here we're going to tilt
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Same thing. Just no head. Two, and. Yeah. Okay. I like it
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So six, a seven, eight. We go. One and two, and. From here, we're going to take two fingers through
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We point and plieie and we come straight up. Yes. One more time
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six, a seven, eight, we go. You've been hit by, boom, boom
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Great, my favorite part here, we're going to click the heels with the booty back, and then we're going to push forward
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on the toes. Yes. So that's the lower half. Lower half is click and push back to the heels, push forward on the toes
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Oh, yeah. How very Wizard of Oz of Us. It going to be nice and quick Okay that your arm with point point you going to click down Kak Mm We going to fist it We going to open the legs
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Boom and point cross. Open. Oh gosh. And close. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah
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That's all I was open. From the top, nice and slow. Uh-huh. Six. A seven, eight
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We go. You've been. Hit. Bye. Got. Got. You've been. Five. Okay
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So this part was really good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we go here
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We go down to the playa. We come up in the straight left. We click. Exactly
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We click. Kak-Kha. Yeah. And then we pull. Yep. Open. Open. And then close everything
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Yeah. And then just to finish this out. It's like a nice head roll to the left
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Smooth criminal. From here. I'm going to step with the right. One
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We're going to roll the shoulders folder, four, two. Yes. So six, a seven, eight, we go a one, a two
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From here, tap the right toe to the right, and head also goes to the right
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Tap it back. Three and, that's three hand. Three and, hold four
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From here, my favorite part, dance in my magazine pose. No? No, oh, no
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The answer is yes. The answer is yes. That actually makes me feel... Everland of seen that pose
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That makes me feel a little bit like... Frankly, it makes me feel like Peter Rivera
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So that's how I remember that. I love it. Cheetah. Yeah. What you want to think is you want to think that knees are parallel body, lower half parallel
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to the left. Exactly. And upper body is in this nice twist. I'm not using a picture of this moment
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Yeah. What? Okay. Great. So I roll my head. Seven, eight to step right
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One. Go two. Three. And hold four. Go five. from here twist and yeah and think about on that yep on that high left diagonal yeah
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yeah yeah okay five and then you're gonna hold five and focus front for this guy right
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cheetah twist twist the cheetah on the face beam from above yeah yeah it's Michael's
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love shining down exactly oh I felt it here we go from the same spot a six a seven a a we go oh one a two a three and four go five and hold six From here we pause leave the upper body and you just pass eight seven and eight one
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And does that kind of press out? Yes. Oh, it pops. Yeah, it does
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Yeah, sure does. So we went a five, and we hold six
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six to go seven and eight one. Yeah, from here
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Eighth one. So you go one to go two and three and four
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Yes. Great, and that's both like spayed. Yes, both like spayed. Nice lunge, yep
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From here, Your hands are going to flip and five and then come into your chest and six
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At the same time, your lower half is going. And five and six
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For a moment there, I dare to hope that it was just the upper body. So you'll flip and five and then you'll bring it into yourself and six
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Yeah. So you go to backwards. Yeah, flat and flat. To flip and five and six. Yeah
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Just to finish us. Here we go. Twist to palm to palm
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Seven. We're going to dip our shoulders to make a little bit
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Yeah. Seven, and that's and hold eight. Seven. And? Mm-hmm. Okay. Seven and
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Hold eight. Go one. Ooh. Yeah. And you want to think about the head leading
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Okay. Okay. Okay. We keep the space in between our heads so that we don't get here, but we stay nice and elongated
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at the same time the toe is coming around. Oh, gosh. Nails
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Yeah. Great. Let us keep moving. Yes, let us. We're almost there
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I believe you. We're almost there. Is I believe you? I do believe you
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I do believe in MJ. Okay. Yep. So we got from seven, eight, and
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And one. We step, and two. And two. Nice and military down
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And two. And three And Oh Like a nice like oh wow Yeah Yeah Okay So you went seven seven and holds eight one and two
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and three and four. This is going to be a little travel so let's take a step back. Okay
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Yeah, and three and four and so it's right hand, fingers tips coming into the head
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left toes pointing out Yeah, invert. And five and six and seven
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Oh, yeah. This is the end. This is literally the end. You ready? And
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I love it. Eight to go one. One. Nails it. Yes
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Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Okay, let's talk about dance captain. Let's do it for a second
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Should we be at the bar? Should we like, oh, feel. So co-dance captain yeah it's a little bit nice co-dance good captain I feel like is a thing that's happening more and more often in Broadway shows. Yes good and I'm
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Mm-hmm you're in charge. Yeah but not just like it's like it's inspiring people that's what's the most exciting about this and letting them inspire us too which is really cool. Yeah and that's how you inspire people and they work that much harder for you. Yeah
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like you were saying. Exactly. Which is exactly what I'm going to do right now. Come on
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Come up. That's the dance, got to dance cap the dance tech
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Learn along with us, film yourself in your local grocery store, in your home, in the street
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in front of your green screen, we know you have one, and show us, tag us DCDA
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Thank you very much. Go see you, and Jay! It's so awesome! And Annie, are you okay? Maybe
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We'll find out. You have to get a ticket to find out
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