Video: Ben is a Smooth Criminal with the Choreo from MJ

Oh, hello, you beautiful Broadway world

It's me, your Broadway buddy, Ben Cameron. And I hope that you are stretched, I hope that you are warm

I hope that you have said a prayer to whatever deed you believe in, because today, on Dance Captain Dance Attack

we are going more hardcore, more funky, fantastic, more iconic than ever before

because I'm learning choreography from MJ the musical. If you've not seen the show, you're an idiot

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

Do la da da da da da da da da no No! Hi! Hi

Okay. You guys just came from rehearsal. You are in knee deep in it and ready. Yes

I've got my rehearsal skirt on. I'm in the studio. We're about to take this on tour

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

Are you ready to do this? I'm ready. Let's go, Jack. Let's have a dance captain

Dance Attack! Yeah, we're going to start. We're going to start. Nice light first position

I like the light first. Yeah, we're not going to break the hips. We just put in a nice light

Well, I already have. That's the truth. We're going to take our arms right over left

Yes, we're going to click one and. So head and arm. One, and from here we're going to tilt

Same thing. Just no head. Two, and. Yeah. Okay. I like it

So six, a seven, eight. We go. One and two, and. From here, we're going to take two fingers through

We point and plieie and we come straight up. Yes. One more time

six, a seven, eight, we go. You've been hit by, boom, boom

Great, my favorite part here, we're going to click the heels with the booty back, and then we're going to push forward

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

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

Boom and point cross. Open. Oh gosh. And close. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah

That's all I was open. From the top, nice and slow. Uh-huh. Six. A seven, eight

We go. You've been. Hit. Bye. Got. Got. You've been. Five. Okay

So this part was really good. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So we go here

We go down to the playa. We come up in the straight left. We click. Exactly

We click. Kak-Kha. Yeah. And then we pull. Yep. Open. Open. And then close everything

Yeah. And then just to finish this out. It's like a nice head roll to the left

Smooth criminal. From here. I'm going to step with the right. One

We're going to roll the shoulders folder, four, two. Yes. So six, a seven, eight, we go a one, a two

From here, tap the right toe to the right, and head also goes to the right

Tap it back. Three and, that's three hand. Three and, hold four

From here, my favorite part, dance in my magazine pose. No? No, oh, no

The answer is yes. The answer is yes. That actually makes me feel... Everland of seen that pose

That makes me feel a little bit like... Frankly, it makes me feel like Peter Rivera

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

to the left. Exactly. And upper body is in this nice twist. I'm not using a picture of this moment

Yeah. What? Okay. Great. So I roll my head. Seven, eight to step right

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

yeah yeah okay five and then you're gonna hold five and focus front for this guy right

cheetah twist twist the cheetah on the face beam from above yeah yeah it's Michael's

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

And does that kind of press out? Yes. Oh, it pops. Yeah, it does

Yeah, sure does. So we went a five, and we hold six

six to go seven and eight one. Yeah, from here

Eighth one. So you go one to go two and three and four

Yes. Great, and that's both like spayed. Yes, both like spayed. Nice lunge, yep

From here, Your hands are going to flip and five and then come into your chest and six

At the same time, your lower half is going. And five and six

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

Yeah. So you go to backwards. Yeah, flat and flat. To flip and five and six. Yeah

Just to finish us. Here we go. Twist to palm to palm

Seven. We're going to dip our shoulders to make a little bit

Yeah. Seven, and that's and hold eight. Seven. And? Mm-hmm. Okay. Seven and

Hold eight. Go one. Ooh. Yeah. And you want to think about the head leading

Okay. Okay. Okay. We keep the space in between our heads so that we don't get here, but we stay nice and elongated

at the same time the toe is coming around. Oh, gosh. Nails

Yeah. Great. Let us keep moving. Yes, let us. We're almost there

I believe you. We're almost there. Is I believe you? I do believe you

I do believe in MJ. Okay. Yep. So we got from seven, eight, and

And one. We step, and two. And two. Nice and military down

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

and three and four. This is going to be a little travel so let's take a step back. Okay

Yeah, and three and four and so it's right hand, fingers tips coming into the head

left toes pointing out Yeah, invert. And five and six and seven

Oh, yeah. This is the end. This is literally the end. You ready? And

I love it. Eight to go one. One. Nails it. Yes

Yeah. Yeah, that's it. Okay, let's talk about dance captain. Let's do it for a second

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

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

like you were saying. Exactly. Which is exactly what I'm going to do right now. Come on

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