- Five, six, seven, eight.
Girls be girls.
- Wait, why girls gotta be girls too?
Hold up, wait a second.
- Yeah, come on.
- Let's hold on, wait a minute.
- [Narrator] We brought two seemingly different groups
of people into our studio
to see if they could unite
in a one-of-a-kind dance challenge.
- [Interviewer] What is your favorite dance move?
- Mine's a Dancehall move.
It's called Nuh Linga. - Ooh.
- And it's like, - 'Ey!
- 'Ey, 'ey, 'ey, yeah. - Yeah.
- Hey, hey.
- Okay, hold on.
If I were to come in here and just spin.
- Yes!
Ooh!
I love that.
- Just do a little wiggle. - Ooh.
'Ey, 'ey. - 'Ey.
- This one.
- Yeah.
- If I'm limber enough, it's the wha-ah.
You know?
It's kinda like uh.
- [Interviewer] Do you know what you're
gonna being doing here today?
- No.
- Not at all.
- Choreographin' something or freestyling,
'cause that's what they usually make us do.
- A little freestyle. - Yeah.
- I hope it's freestyle.
[Interviewer] Today you'll be working together
to choreograph a 60-second dance routine
to a song that I'll be giving you.
- All right. - Okay.
- Okay. - Oh, okay, let's do it.
Okay, okay. - I'm down, excited.
Yeah, let's do it. - We're so excited.
[Interviewer] So, you'll only have 30 minutes
to choreograph and practice before the performance.
- Okay.
- Yes, we're ready.
[Interviewer] Before you start, there's actually gonna be
a few more people added to your team.
- Okay.
- The bigger, the better.
- [Both] Hey.
- How's it goin'? - Hi, I'm Cleo.
- Kyle.
- Hi, B. - Kyle.
- It was a good and bad thing.
I was like, "So, you gave dancers dancers,"
but I realized that they were all like, "Hello,"
and I was like, "Oh, no, they're technical dancers."
- Brandon.
- I'm not that surprised, just 'cause it is kind of
a popular theme to do, ballet and hip hop,
because there is a difference.
There is a line.
It is two different trainings.
- This gonna be either really funny or just plain awkward.
- I was expecting my mom or something.
[Interviewer] All right, team.
This is your song.
- So, swing.
- Oh, it is swing! - I love this.
- I still wish I had a little bit more hip hop in me,
just because when you're at the club
and hip-hop dancers are going down,
you can't just be battement.
- Can I have that track after?
I would like that. - Yeah!
- [Interviewer] Your timer starts in three,
two, one.
- Okay.
- What are we doing? - How to start it?
- Almost something introductory, where it sounds like
there's almost a break in the music,
where you could hit and focus on every one of us.
- Well, it has two beats in the beginning, so we can hold.
- I like that there's two girls,
and the boys can come through the windows.
- And go bump, tee, tee, tee, tee.
- Ooh, okay. - Oh, okay.
- So, tee.
- That'll be on five, six, seven, eight.
We go pop, pee, tee, cee, kee.
- I do not work well with others
when it comes to making choregraphy together,
especially when I don't know them,
because I'm very dry when I talk sometimes.
- There is definitely some leadership roles being taken.
And that's just the kind of,
I've noticed how a lot of hip-hop dancers are,
and I think it why they're such great performers,
is that they're ready to go on a moment's fly,
and they'll just take the reins,
but, hey, we're here too.
- Don't forget we also have ballet dancers.
- Yeah, we've gotta do some ballet stuff too, guys.
- Our main circle.
- I wanted more collaboration,
I wanted to be like, "You know what, challenge me.
"Make me do some kind of turn or something."
- Do you want to do it across the floor?
- Yeah, it's called
- I fake it.
I usually fake it, I go.
- Yeah!
- I feel like a lot of men are discouraged
from doing ballet, contemporary, modern,
because it is considered effeminate,
and so they turned to hip-hop and what not.
Effeminate qualities are not lesser than a man.
They're not less strong.
- We'll just do it from the top to keep it in our minds?
- I think we should move on.
I felt like we needed to go faster.
I just felt like we spent so much time on small things.
Three, four. - Double, double, double,
double, double, double, yeah.
What time is it?
We don't have time to practice.
- Right, right, left, left.
Boys go back, girls go front. - Yes.
- It goes five, six, seven, eight.
Girls be girls.
- Wait, why girls gotta be girls, too?
Hold up, wait a second.
Let's hold on, wait a minute.
- Do whatever you want. - Wait a minute.
- Front line, do what you gotta do,
back line, do what you gotta do.
- In a lot of the dance world,
you're divided by men and women.
I identify as a gender non-conforming transfeminine dancer.
I do identify with some aspects of femininity,
while gender is this big bubble that I don't fully fit in,
and so sometimes I can dip in,
and sometimes I can dip out of what
a traditional binary man, woman looks like,
and which is why non-conforming feels really good for me.
- Six. - Oh, yeah, let's do that.
- Yes, okay, cool.
- We have 11 minutes. - 11 minutes.
I'm tired.
Even though there was a time limit,
I didn't want to rush anything,
because once we start rushing, we start freakin' out.
- I feel like it takes longer for professional dancers
to come up with stuff than normal people.
Dancers just like to make every count matter.
So, wait, okay, what?
- This person's sayin' this thing,
and this person sayin' that thing.
It was kind of a little bit all over the place.
I'm like, "All right, well, I'm just gonna follow along."
- Freakin', freakin' three minutes.
- The time, the time, oh, I hate a time limit.
There's a minute left.
Okay, wait, actually, hold on.
- [Cleo] I was like, "Oh, my God, we have a minute left.
"I don't even know when the end of the dance is."
- And five, step, six, seven, eight.
Okay.
[Interviewer] You guys, you are out of time!
- Five more minutes?
No?
[Interviewer] Go get ready for your final performance.
- Woo!
- Before the final performance, I was like,
"So, we're gonna run it a few times?
"Oh, we're not gonna run it.
" Here we go."
- I was like, "Am I gonna look good?"
It was so stupid.
It's not even about that.
It's just about having fun,
and about community, and togetherness.
♪ Hit it ♪
♪ That's what I'm talkin' 'bout ♪
♪ Wait ♪
♪ Okay, now ♪
♪ From the beginning ♪
♪ Hit it, boys ♪
♪ All you men with suits and ties ♪
♪ Just sittin' in the crowd, smokin' big cigars ♪
♪ I hope you're ready for what's comin' now ♪
♪ I'm the one, I'm the lady that'll bring ya down ♪
♪ Duh, duh, do, do, duh, do, do ♪
♪ Duh, duh, do, do, do, do ♪
♪ Duh, duh, do, do, duh, do, do ♪
♪ Duh, do, do, do, do ♪
♪ Okay now, from the beginning ♪
♪ Duh, duh, do, do, duh, do, do ♪
♪ Duh, do, do, do, do, do ♪
♪ Duh, duh, do, do, duh, do, do ♪
♪ There's a joint on the corner ♪
♪ Where the big boys play ♪
- I didn't expect this to be what it was.
Everyone was having fun, the energy was right.
We were all clicking.
- Even though, at first, I got a little nervous,
I was able to mellow out
and felt that we were all really on top of it
and supportive of each other.
- I have a very love-hate relationship
with ballet, to be honest.
Being here today was really special for me,
because I could remember why I love it,
and that it's not about being perfect.
It's about all of us coming together.
- I wanna just do this on my own.
Just be like, "Bring three friends,
"and we're just gonna do
"a whole 60-second thing to choreograph."
I think that's a really cool way
to just appreciate people's differences and celebrate them.
- I feel like dance just unites everyone,
no matter what you're language or background is,
and it's just beautiful to see,
and it's incredible to feel it.
- Hi, everyone.
I'm Kenzie, and I'm the creator of 60 Second Dance.
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