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Victor: Hi, my name is Victor Sho.

LaShonna: And I’m LaShonna Holloway.

Victor: And we both are professional dancers here in the city. Tell us a little bit about yourself.

LaShonna: Well, I am originally from Philadelphia. I moved here to be a performer. I studied at New York University and I’ve been teaching, and performing and traveling as a performer, as a professional dancer, an actress, and model for several years and working with kids all over teaching workshops.

Victor: Cool. I am a choreographer. More so hip-hop, street/jazz dancer, model and actor. And my experience as far dancing back-up for artists like Madonna, Rhianna, Alicia Keys. And doing a lot of on-camera commercials, t.v. spots, and I also teach at Broadway Dance Center.

LaShonna: We’re going to show you some sexy dance moves for the club. If you want to find us, you can check us out, I’m on Facebook. You can find me at LaShonna Holloway. That’s L-A-S-H-O-N-N-A, Holloway, H-O-L-L-O-W-A-Y. I’m the only one with that name on Facebook so you should be able to find me. Anyone else is an impostor.

Victor: All right. And once again, my name is Victor, V-I-C-T-O-R, S-H-O. And you can find me at Victorsho.com. I’m on Instagram as Victor Sho. I’m on Twitter as Victor_Sho and I’m on Facebook.

Both: And now, we’re both going to teach you some sexy dance moves.

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Hi everybody. I’m LaShauna.

And I’m Victor Sho.

And we’re gonna teach you how to do lower body isolations. Lower body isolations involves anything happening below the waist. Today, we’re gonna focus on the hips and isolating the hips.

It’s an old dance called the Tick that I’m gonna focus on because your hips are ticking like the hands of a clock, hitting each corner.

So, we’re gonna start in a wide position with our knees bent. We’re gonna take our hips and push them to the side, to the right side. Nothing else moves but your hips ticking right. Try that again, tick right. One more time, tick right. Nothing else moves above your hips and nothing moves but your hips.

Right? Now, let’s take a tick front, bring it front. Now tick left, and tick back . Again, start right, front, left back. Tick right, front, left. A little faster. Right, front, left back, right, front, a little faster. Right, front left back, right, front, left back, right, front, left back, right, front, left back.

You can tick in one direction. You can stay ticking right, right, right, right, right. You can stay ticking front. Front, front, front, front, isolate to the front. You can stay ticking left. Left, left, left. And you can stay ticking back, which is the booty pop. Ticking back is the booty pop.

Fellas, when you’re doing your tick, you definitely wanna keep your hands afloat right here or you just keep them relaxed right here, but guys, come on, tick too, you know what I’m sayin’? Girls like a guy that can move their waist. Yeah? So, just like Shauna was saying, you can tick from the right, to the front, to the side, to the back.

But if you realize, I’m trying to use my hands so that, you know, there’s a little bit more, you know, swag with it as well. So, you go right, front, left back. Right, front, left back. And you can, like, keep it to the side, like how Shauna says. You can keep it down. Hands up, side, side, side, side, side, side, side. And that’s how guys can tick as well.

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Hi, my name is Victor Sho.

And, I’m LaShauna.

And we are gonna teach you how to do upper body isolations. So, basically, when you’re doing the upper body isolation, you want to understand that your neck is the tool that would pretty much engage the isolation to which part of the body you want to use.

So, if you want to isolate your head, you want to extend your neck towards your right, then your left. Your right, then your left. Yeah? However you want to keep your torso area completely still. And a lot of times people try to put their hands on their chest so that they can feel that their torso is, and your chest area, this whole upper body area right here, is not moving.

So, you want to go right, left, right, left. And if you realize the more you practice this, the more your neck gets loose, the more you’ll be able to move your head from side to side without doing one of these. You don’t want to lead with your chin. You don’t want to that. Want to keep your head completely still and vertical and keep your shoulders completely flat, so none of this, yeah?

So, keep your shoulders completely flat and then isolate your head. And then that same token, you can keep your head still and isolate your actual upper body itself from your chest area. So, you can keep your head still right here, and move your chest to your left, your chest to your right. Your chest to your left, your chest to your right. And you work with it just like that. Cool?

And then, when you get advanced and you want to have fun with it, what you can do is you can start doing different things where you can isolate your head first, then your lower body. First, then your lower body, top, lower body. Great, encircle it. And then you’ll bring it right back up.

If you realize, a lot of times what I also use, to kind of like cheat that, is, if my body is going towards my left, my chin is kind of going towards my right. If my body is going towards my right, my chin is kind of going towards my left. In the same token, if my head is going down, my upper body is going up.

And it’s the same thing. If my upper body’s going up, my head is going down. Cool? And that’s how you do upper body isolations.

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Hi, my name is Victor Show, and I’m going to teach you how to dance like Neo.

So Neo is another artist of mine that I think is one of the top. And in terms of dance, I’ve made a combo that’s inspired by his movement, by his style.

Okay, so this kind of choreography is more like street jazz. Has a lot of lines, is a little housey, and it’s just about precision and being clean with it.

All right, cool, so here we go. What you’re going to do right now is, you’re going to do a kick, ball, change. Kick, ball, change. That’s your feet. Kick, step, put your other foot in the back, that’s a kick ball change. Kick ball change. Your hands is going point and slap and you want to look it. So, point, snap, then you’re going to do another kick, ball, change with your leg. Kick, ball, change.

So after you come from this snap right here, you’re going to extend your hands, your right hand on your chest, go here, and snap. You’re going to snap really low, so there’s a little bit of a level change right there.

So once again, you’ve got one and two, three and four, from here, you’re going to turn, five, six, to do a small little house step to the side, with your right bring it in to your left, and then you’re going to take that same step, left and right towards the back. Left, right and your profile toward the audience. Cool? Let’s take it back.

So we’ve got, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one, two. Cool? Now you’re going to do a few more house steps right here. You’re going to kick with your right leg on your heel. Three, four, you’re going to stop on five, you’re still looking this way. So this is three, four, five. There’s a quick stop on five to go snap six and you look towards the audience to go seven, eight.

Once again, so, you’re going to go from your turn, this is five, six, seven, eight, back. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. That’s what it is, all right?

Let’s piece this together one more time, slowly. So we’re going to go point one, snap two, and three, and four, five, six, skate, seven, eight, one, two, three and four, and five, six and seven, eight.

So now we’re going to do this whole combo again slow, and then tempo with the beat, all right? Okay, here we go. So we got one, actually, when you point, you want to make sure you point towards the audience. So you’re going to go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

Okay? Hope you’re ready, because now we’re going to do it with the tempo. I’m going to count you in then it’s up to you to keep up. Five, six, five, six, seven and. And that’s how you dance like Neo.

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Hi everybody. I’m Lashona and today I’m going to teach you how to do the Roger Rabbit. The Roger Rabbit is an old school dance move but it’s still fun to do at any party or any event. Were going to start facing sides so you can see what I’m doing with my legs and with my upper body. My right leg is going to start behind me and I’m going to push my left foot forward and then I do the same thing with my left, push it forward.

My right goes back, I push my left foot forward and as I’m doing this chugging motion my arms go forward, back and forward and my upper body does it arching and contracting. Push and push and push and push. Now I’m going to do it with a singles, single double motion so you can see how it goes. Single, single, double. Single, single, double. Single, single, double. Single, single, double. My arms are pumping. My upper body is contracting and arching and my legs push, push, double push, and push, push, double push. And that is how you do the Roger Rabbit.

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Hi, I’m Leshana [SP], and I’m going to teach you how to dance like Rihanna. As you all know, Rihanna is from the isle of Barbados. So a lot of her moves comes from the islands. They’re very Reggae, and dance hall inspired. The first move that we’re going to do, it’s going to go heel toe. Heel, toe. Heel toe, heel toe, heel toe, heel toe. It’s slow. It’s slow. It’s quick, it’s quick, it’s quick, it’s quick. So that’s just the heel toe motion. Every time we have a heel toe, we’re going to bring the hand in front of us. So we have heel toe. Switch, heel toe. Switch, heel toe, heel toe, heel toe, heel toe. We start with our left arm. Ready? Five. Six. Slowly we have heel toe. Heel toe. Heel toe, heel toe, heel toe, heel toe. We’re going to back it up four times. Clapping one. Back it up two. Slang the hips three. Four in the center. Round. Round. The arms come side.

Let’s put that all together. Five. Six. Seven with the arms, heel toe. Switch, heel toe. Faster, heel toe, heel toe, let’s back it up. One. Two. Three. Four. Bring the arms up as you wind. A little faster. Five. Six. Seven we have heel toe. Heel toe, heel toe, heel toe, now back it up. One. Two. Three. Four. And wind, and a wind, and a wind, and a wind. And that’s how you dance like Rihanna.

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Hi, I’m LaShonna, and I’m going to teach you how to dance like Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj is not known to be a dancer, but she has signature moves that she does that make her quite the artist that she is. Today I’m going to teach you a couple of moves that she does that can make you dance just like her.

The first move that I’m going to do involves a step touch together. Right, left, left, right. Now, while you’re doing this your arms are just going to shift side, right, right, right, right. This is the groove like Nicki Minaj. You go right, right, right, right with the arms. Although the feet are going right, left, left,right your arms go right,right, right, right.

From here after doing that two times, one, two, you’re going to step back and snap, step back and snap. When you step back you just take your hand behind you like you’re pushing something away. Push and snap, and push and snap. You repeat. Right, right, right, right, step back and snap, step back and snap.

Nicki Minaj is also known for having a wonderful derriere, so we’re going to shake it just like her. You’re going to bend over and shake it, and a shake it, and a shake it, and a shake it. Booty pop, booty pop, and slap. Okay? That last part after we go push and snap, push and snap. Shake it, and a shake it, and a shake it, and a shake it, booty pop, booty pop, around and slap.

Let’s put it all together. Five, six, slowly we have right with the arms, right with the arms. Slap and snap, slap and snap. Again. Right with the arms, right with the arms. Slap and snap, slap and snap. Shake it, and a shake it, and a shake it, and a shake it. Booty pop, booty pop, around, slap.

A little faster. Ready? Five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, slap, snap, slap, snap. One, two, three, four, slap, snap, slap, snap. Booty, booty, booty, booty, pop, pop, around and drop.

And that’s how you dance like Nicki Minaj.

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Hi, my name is Victor Show, and I’m going to show you how to dance like Chris Brown.

Chris Brown is one of my favorite artists. He has tons of crazy, cool moves and this is just a combo I put together that’s inspired by him. Cool?

So, it kinda has some pops, some waves, so be ready for that – and some floor work.

So, you’re gonna go one, two, three, four. So, pop here, one, two, three, four. You’re gonna go one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. So, you’re gonna go, one, so you wanna keep your legs a little straight so you just lower your torso to hit this position to pop right here. One, two, three, four. Five, six, seven, eight. So push this here, one, and two. You’re gonna do a little boogaloo step right here to bring this hip up, this knee up, to place it down right here.

So, once again, you’re gonna go, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. One, and two, three, four. Got that? Moving on. You’re going to go five, six, bring this arm down, seven, eight, seven, eight, one. So, once again, this is five, six, seven, pound up, eight, one. And that’s how you dance like Chris Brown.

So, we’re gonna put this together slowly. So, we got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one. So, now we’re gonna do it slow, and then tempo. Cool? So, we have one, two, three, four, five six, seven, eight. One and two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one. Cool? Here we go. So, to the music. Five, six, five, six, seven. And that’s how you dance like Chris Brown.

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Hi everybody, I’m LaShonna, and I’m going to teach you how to dance like Ciara. Ciara has a lot of amazing dance moves, so I’m going to take a few of them and put them together to teach you how to dance just like her.

I’m going to start this one really, really low. Feet together. Knees apart. I’m going to start with four booty pops. And one, and two, and three, and four. So, facing the side you’ll see that that’s up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down. We do that four times. The next four times we’re going to cross the arms. Cross, open, cross, open. So, four booty pops. One, two, three, four. Cross, open, cross, on the open we will actually jump up here.

Let’s put that together slowly. Here we go. Five, six, seven, eight. Booty pop, booty pop, booty pop, booty pop, cross, open, cross, jump up.

Now you’re going to pretend you’re carrying two big buckets of water. You’re going to booty pop while you bring the buckets to the opposite side. So, we jumped up on eight. You have your buckets. Booty pop. And one, and two, and three, and four. You’re going to bring your foot in, body roll, five, six, seven, snap eight. So, your left foot comes in to stomp with the body roll five, body roll sit, seven, snap eight.

Let’s put it all together. Drop it low. Booty pop real slow. One, two, three, four, cross, open, cross, come up. You have your water, and drop it, bring it in, snap on the last count.

One more time from the top. Five, six, seven, we have booty pop, three, four, cross, open, cross, come up. Bring the water to the other side, step, step and snap.

And there you have it. That’s how you dance like Ciara.

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Victor Sho: Hi! My name is Victor Sho.

LaShonna Holloway: And I’m LaShonna.

Victor: And today we are going to show you how to dance like Kelly Rowland and her dancers. Basically, Shonna’s going to show you what Kelly Rowland did in her video, in a feminine way. I am going to show what her dancers, who are primarily male dancers, did in the Motivation video. If you’ve seen that, then you know exactly what we are about to do. Alright, here we go. So basically, you want to have a nice straddle. You want to lean back. Girls can girlify it or whatever. They can stare, chin up, whatever. You can leave that to her.

Stand right here, lean back, and you are just going to rock your hips side to side. If you realize, I am not only rocking my hip like this, I am kind of like stepping on my right. To give a little bit of a circular motion. Yeah, So, rock the hips with the step to the right to get that circular motion. Yep. And just to add something to it, we are gonna snap this way, snap this way, snap this way, and now we are done. So snap to you right, left, front. We are going to do this on the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight count. Those are the counts for your snaps, Okay? So let’s put this all into a combination. Yeah? Five, six, seven eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Cool? A little slower.

One…two…three…four…five…six…seven…eight. And that is how you dance like Kelly Rowland.

LaShonna: And her dancers!

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LaShonna Halloway: Hi everybody, I’m LaShonna.

Victor Sho: And I’m Victor Sho.

LaShonna: And we’re going to teach you how to dance like LMFAO. There’s a really famous dance called party rocking, and that’s what we’re going to do right now.

So it involves lifting up one leg, your right leg, and you’re going to put it down and split the feet. Left leg comes up, split the feet. Again. Up with the feet. Up split the feet. Up split the feet. Up split the feet. Now we’re going to face the side just so you can see what that looks like on the side angle for clarity. Right up with the feet. Left with the feet, right, left, right, good.

Now, whenever your foot hits the ground in front of you, your body’s going to rock back. That’s the rocking part. The party rocking part. So up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up down, up, down, up down. So let’s do it all together facing front.

Victor: Yes.

LaShonna: Ready? Slow.

Victor: Five. Slow?

LaShonna: Yeah. Five, six, seven, eight. One, two. One, two.

Victor: Three, Four.

LaShonna: One, count form one. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight. Awesome. And this dance, that’s just the feet. You can play with your arms however you want. You can put them out in front of you, you can cross your shoulders. You can put them down to your side. It’s all however you want to do it, okay. Ready for party rocking in a circle.

Victor: Yeah, let’s do it.

LaShonna: Ready? Five, six, seven, eight.

And that’s how you dance like LMFAO.

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Victor: Hi, my name is Victor Cho and I’m going to teach you how to dance like Usher. If you’ve ever watched the Oh My God video, you kind of got a heads up on what this is about.

So basically what you’re going to do is, your feet is going to go right, left behind the back of your right, then left, right behind that. Right, left in the back, right, I mean left, right in the back. And as always going up, down. Up, down. Your arms are going, you’re going extend the right with your left on the chest, and do it twice.

And then, you’re going to extend the right again, and do it down. So actually you extend the right, to the right three times. One, two, three, four. One, two, three, four. So, three to the right, four for now. Alright so when you put the two together it looks like this. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.

So now we’re going to put it together to the beat. Five, six, seven, eight. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. And if you want to add something to it, you can snap in the direction you’re going. Here we go. And that’s done. And that’s how you dance like Usher.

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Hi, my name is Vick the Show…

And I’m LaShawna.

And today we’re going to teach you an exotic style of dance. This exotic dance that we’re going to teach you is…from West Africa. It’s called azonto, yeah? So, it’s a simple, groovy step, where we’re going to stay grounded in it. K? And basically, you want to have your legs going like this motion, right here. And in that, you’ll find pockets where you can thrust, and do that.

But the thrusting, trust me, it will come with the movement entirely. So the next thing I’m going to teach you, aside from the leg movement, is your hands. Your hands simply, you want to go here, here, here, here. Here, here, here, here. Now you can do it two ways. You can have your hands straight, you can have your hands a little bit more free and open. It’s totally up to you. Cool?

So we are going to lean to the left, open our legs, bring our legs in. Lean to the right, bring our legs in. Bring them to the left, in, then left again. And then we’re going to do the same thing over here. Right, in, left, in, right, in, right.

And that’s pretty much a basic understanding of how to do azonto-style dance. Yeah? So, me and LaShawna, is going to do a demonstration for you. K?

5, 6, 7, go, and a ah, ah, ah, ah. And a ah, ah, and a ah, ah. And then once you get into the groove of it, you can do your own style. Yeah?

And that is azonto-style dance. Yeah?

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Victor Sho: Hi everybody, my name is Victor Sho.

LaShonna: And I’m LaShonna.

Victor: And this is the segment where we call exotic dancing. But the exotic dance step we’re going to do today is a more West African style. A lot of Nigerian and Ghanans people do it, but it’s also known worldwide. People in Europe, here in the U.S., and back home do it. It’s called Etighi. Yeah? That’s E-T-I-G-H-I. And it’s a simple step. We’re going to get started doing it.

So basically, you want to keep your legs straight. Yep. And you want to bend down a little bit, but more at the torso. And you’re just using your hips, you’re just using your hips to lift up your leg right here and drop it down. You use your other hip to lift your leg up and drop it down. Lift it up. Drop it down. You want to really isolate the hip and keep your leg straight, and drop it down. Isolate the hip, keep your leg straight, and drop it down. So it’s almost like you’re walking peg leg, with style. Okay? And you want to swing your arms here, and here. Twice on both legs. Pop. Pop. Pop. Pop.

You can turn around with it. Pop. Do it a little faster. And up. And up. And up. And up. Yeah. And now, if you’re a girl, when you’re doing it you want to get a little low when you do it. Because when your get your, when your torso’s a little lower it’s more focused on your booty. And when you focus on your booty the guys do this. Hopefully, you don’t get a creepy guy doing that. But, at the end of the day this is what you want to do if you’re a female. And that’s etighi.

So we’re going to do it to the beat, facing, then turning. Cool? Let’s go five, six, five, six, seven, right leg. And up. And up. Turn, and we turn, turn, turn. And up. You can walk forward with it. Going back with it.

And that’s etighi style dancing, an exotic dance.

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LaShonna: Hi, everybody. I’m LaShonna.

Victor: And I’m Victor Sho.

LaShonna: And today we’re going to teach you how to dance in a group.

Victor: Cool. So when you dance in a group you’re definitely want to keep the energy up. You definitely want to show your personality. You definitely want to do simple moves that everybody can see and catch on. So eye contact is important, too. Smiling is contagious.

Here we go!

LaShonna: In a group you just want to do something repetitive so people follow you. You’re the leader of the group and they follow that move that you’re doing.

In this case Victor started this move and I followed him.

Victor: And now LaShonna can do something that she wants to change up.

LaShonna: First we’re going to go wave, wave-

Both: Wave, wave, wave, wave, wave, wave.

LaShonna: Your turn.

Victor: Hop it up.

Both: Hop it up. Hop it up. Hop it up. Hop it up.

LaShonna: Hop it up.

Victor: Your turn.

LaShonna: Hop it up. Take it back. No. No. No.

Both: No. No. No. No. No.

Both: Take it back. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Victor: Bring it back.

Both: No. No. No. No. No.

Victor: Bring it up.

Both: Take it back. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

LaShonna: And that’s how you dance in a group.

Victor: And that is how you do it. Dancing in a group.

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Victor: Hi, my name is Victor Cho

Lyshanna: And I’m Lyshanna.

Victor: and together we are going to teach you how to

Lyshanna: Box step.

Victor: Box step. Alright, so we’re going to start with your right foot stepping forward and crossing over. Then your left leg coming back, and your right leg come back. Then your left leg stepping over and crossing over, and it’s the same thing again. Right, back, right, back, left cross, right cross. Back, back, back, left cross, right cross. Back, back, left cross, right cross. Cool.

Lyshanna: If I go out to a party, if I just do that I don’t think I’ll look cool enough.

Victor: You’re right. So we’re going to show you how to stylize this. Just a little bit. Have a little bit more fun, yeah? Cool. So you want to get your arms loose, you know what I’m saying? You want to get a little lower, get lower. You’re going to start it off, warm it up, and here we go and a bada, ha. You might want to show some variations, leaning up and then leaning down. There we go and up, and down, and up, and down, and up, and down and up, and down. And that’s how you do the box step.

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– LaSawna: Hi everybody, I’m LaShawna.

– Victor: And I’m Victor Show.

– LaShawna: And today, we’re going to show you how to do a two-step. When you’re in social settings, and there’s music playing, and you want to get started dancing, all you have to do, is two-step. You go right to left, left to right, right to left, and left to right. Right to left. And that is our two-step.

– Victor: Yeah, so, now if you really want to do this two-step and have the party going crazy, off just one two-step? What you want to do is have a little more fun with it, get a little more updated with it, yeah? So you’re going to go here, here, here, here. Here, here, here, here. So you’re…oh, I’m sorry LaShawna, you can come back now.

– LaShawna: Can you teach me?

– Victor: Yes, yes. Just playing around with her. Alright, so basically want to get down low low, you know what I’m saying? Rock to the side right here, five, six, seven, and one… And that’s a little but more of an updated two-step.

– LaShawna: That’s the two-step.

(?) is cool too, you know, I love her.

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Victor: Hi, my name is Victor Sho.

LaShonna: And I’m LaShonna.

Victor: And we are going to teach you some old school hip hop moves. So, now these are some moves that if you are going to some eighties party, you can bust out on the floor, or even if you’re at any party, like if you’re at a club, or a wedding reception, or at a friends party, a friends house party. You can just bust these old school moves when you hear some old school music. All right, so for the first step we’re going to do we are going to put all the weight on our left leg, we’re going to hike up our right leg, and then at the same time we’re going to push forward our left elbow. Okay? And you’re going to do it, one, two. And then you’re going to do the same thing, but the opposite. So, you’re going to put all of your weight on your right leg, lift up your left leg, and then push forward your right elbow, three, four. So, you’re going to do double, double, double, double, single, single and double, double. That’s how we’re going to do it. On the beat, here we go. Five, six, five, six, seven, go, single, double, single, single. Yeah.

LaShonna: Awesome. The next step that we’re going to do is an old school move called The Kid in Play. You can do it by yourself, but it’s much better with a partner. So, Victor and I are going to show you The Kid in Play. All right, we’re going to face the side, stepping first with our left foot, kick each other with the right, step back, do it again, step forward, and then we step back. This time, one, two, grab, three. Let’s just do that much. Ready? Five, six, left foot step, left kick right, and then we step back, left kick right, and then we step back, left, one, two, grab, three. We’re going to hop around four times. One, two, three, four, and that’s The Kid in Play.

Victor: Are we going to do it together?

LaShonna: Sure.

Victor: Okay. Five, six, five, six, seven . . . Clap, one, two, three, four. All right, and that’s The Kid in Play. So, the next move is going to be?

LaShonna: The Humpty Dance.

Victor: Oh! The Humpty Dance. All right. So, this one is super simple. All you’re going to do is wave your hands. Your right hand is going this was. Your left hand goes this way. Your right hand goes this way. Your left hand goes this way, and you see, naturally your body is leaning there, right? So, all you have to do now is just bounce. So, you just bounce right here. This is The Humpty Dump Bounce. All right? So, what you want to do now is apply that same motion with your hands with this bounce. Five, six, seven, and one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, and that’s how you Humpty Hump. Yeah, old school Humpty Hump.

LaShonna: From the top?

Victor: Yeah.

Lashawna: Let’s put all three together . . .

Victor: Yeah.

LaShonna: . . . and pretend that we’re at an old school party. All right?

Victor: Yeah.

LaShonna: Here we go. Five, six, seven, eight.

Victor: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, one . . . and that’s how you do all three dances, right there.

LaShonna: Old school.

Victor: Old school moves.

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Hi everybody, I’m LaShonna. And today I will teach you how to dance like Beyoncé.

Beyoncé has a lot of wonderful moves that she does that are so empowering for women. I’ve put together a little bit that I enjoy doing myself. You can repeat this routine over and over again because it goes from side to side and it’s really easy to do. You can do it at home.

We’re going to start with our right foot taking two steps this way. One, two, the third step your right arm leads you out as if you’re stroking a bunch of beautiful flowers on the side. So two steps. One, to the third one your lay out, then you’re going to do four fast run to the side. One, two, three, four. Four faces front. So again we walk, one, two, graze the flowers, three four. One, two, three, front, four.

From here, we’re going to take our head to the side, around, shoulder shoulder, around, shoulder shoulder. So our head just dips down and side with the shoulder shoulder. Down and side, shoulder shoulder. Let’s just put that much together. Ready? Two walks, one, two. Graze the flowers. Run, run, run, run, run, face front. Head and shoulders, head and shoulders.

The last step to this, you’re going to push to the left side, one, two, three, snap off and you start again. Walk, two, graze the flowers, run, run, run, run, run, face front. Head, shoulders, head, shoulders, push, push, push, snap. Walk, two, graze the flowers. Run and run and run, face front, head shoulders, head shoulders, push, push, push and snap.

With that little routine, you will definitely be dancing like Beyoncé

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Hi, everybody. My name is LaShonna and today I will teach you how to dance like Shakira. Shakira is an amazing performer who uses a lot of belly dancing in her movement. So today I’m going to teach you a routine that’s inspired by Shakira as well as belly dancing. Okay?

We’re going to start with our right leg a little bit ahead of us so that we’re evenly distributed amongst our feet. Left arm in the air, right arm behind you. In this position we lift our hips up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, four times. Then we do the same thing but a little bit faster. So we go up, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, then faster, faster, faster, faster.

From here we’re going to take our arm out to the side and our left arm out. Our arms are out and the only thing that moves here is our waist and hips isolating four times. Push right, one. Push left, two. Push right, three. Push left, four.

Let’s put that together so far. One arm up, the other arm down. Here we go. One, two, three, four. Faster, faster, faster, faster. Arm, arm, isolate the hips four times. We’re going to back to facing side with a little booty shimmy. Four. Four counts of that. Once again, that’s shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy.

Then we do chest and hands. Chest, chest, hands, hands, hands. So that’s chest, chest, hands, hands, hands. Again, chest, chest, hands, hands, hands. Let’s put the whole thing together so we can dance like Shakira. One arm up, the other arm down. Slow, one, two, three, four. Faster shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy, shimmy. Arm, arm, isolate the hips side to side. Booty scoot. Chest, chest, hands.

Let’s do it one more time a little faster. Six, seven, eight. Faster. Arm, arm. Booty scoot. Chest, chest. Awesome job. And now you know how to dance like Shakira.

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Hi everybody. I’m Lashonna and today I’m going to teach you how to dance in heels. Now the secret to dancing in heels is to know how to stand in heels or knowing how to walk in heels.

So we’re going to start with those basics today. You have to make sure that when you’re in a pair of heels your weight is forward and not back because when your weight’s on the heel it makes you become a little unstable so you want to stay up, up, up nice and tall on your tippy toes. The key word tippy toe is why they call walking in heels tipping or pumping in your pumps. So the first thing to do to dance in heels is to tip, pump, walk in your heels. Let’s try that. Weight forward on your tippy toes stepping forward, one, two, three, four, okay? Let’s just try those four steps. Coming forward, one, two, three, four.

Once you take those four steps forward you’re going to go one, two, three, four, step out, step out. We’re trying to make sure that our weight is evenly distributed so that we’re balanced on the tips of our toes. Let’s try those four steps in to step out and out. Ready, here we go. Tipping forward, one, two, three, four, out, out. Let’s see how balanced we are by rocking side to side. Once we rock side to side we’re going to just go dip down and up, down and up. Shifting our weight to our back foot and then even, back and even, taking it back and back.

So let’s start again. We tip, one, two, three, four, step out, step out, rock and rock, down and up, down and up, take it back, let’s start again. Tip, tip, tip, tip, step out, step out, rock, rock, down and up, down and up, take it back and take it back. Let’s try it with some music a little bit up tempo, ready? Five, six, let’s tip. Tip, One, rock, down and up, down and up, let’s start again. Here we go, tip, step, step, rock, down and up, down and up, take it back and take it back. And now you know how to dance in heels.

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Hey everybody, I’m LaShonna.

And I’m Victor Sho.

And today, we’re going to learn the butterfly. The butterfly is an old-school reggae dance. It’s done primarily with the legs, so we’re going to just focus on the legs today, and then Victor and I are going to show you a partnered-version of the butterfly, the double-butterfly, so to speak.

The double-butterfly.

So, we’re going to start with our legs. You have to start with your knees bent, on your tippy-toes, is the best way to start. Knees in, knees out, think of yourself doing the Thighmaster exercise. Knees in, knees out, knees in, knees out. Now, how do we get to the butterfly? We add our pelvis. When your knees come in, your pelvis pushes your knees apart, and your pelvis goes back. Knees in, push the knees apart. Knees in, pelvis pushes the knees apart, and push, and open, and push, and open. Now you can add your arms, for a scooping motion, to add onto the butterfly.

So, let’s do a single-leg, single-leg, double-leg butterfly. We’re going to start with the right. Right leg, left leg, now both go two times. Right leg again. Right leg, left leg, both legs. Make sure you’re pushing, push! Push! Both legs. One more time. Right, left, push. Good. So now Victor and I are going to show you how you can partner up into a butterfly with your friends. So I’m going to do a low butterfly, Victor’s going to be high. We’re going to go single, single, double. Ready, Victor?

Yes.

5, 6, 7, you have single, single, and double. One more time. Single, single, and double. Awesome. And that is the butterfly.

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Victor: Hi, my name is Victor Sho.

LaShonna: And I’m LaShonna.

Victor: And we are going to show you how to lean back. Very simple dance. What you wanna do is cross your arms like this, and then you’re gonna be leaning back from this way, center, and this way, center, this way, center, this way. Now, the only thing you gotta add now is just the rock, okay? See, you rock right, rock left, rock right, rock left, rock right, rock left, rock right, rock left. And that’s pretty much it. So, you’re gonna add the rock with the lean back, and there’s your dance. And it goes like this. You ready?

Lashonna: Ready.

Victor: Five. Six. Seven. And one, two, three, four, lean back, lean back, lean back. And that’s how you lean back.

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LaShonna: Hi everybody. I’m LaShonna.

Victor: And I’m Victor Sho.

LaShonna: And today we’re going to teach you how to do the cupid shuffle. The cupid shuffle is a popular party line dance known worldwide. So we’ll teach you the basic one if you don’t know it, and if you already know how to do the cupid shuffle we’ll give you some little flavor to add to it so you can be the best cupid shuffler out there.

Victor: That’s right.

LaShonna: First steps, four moves to the right. So we just take a step one, two, three, four steps to the left. One, two, three, four. Now four is the magic number because now you have four kicks. Kick right, kick left, kick right, kick left. Most important part of it all is the walk it out. You walk it out and you’re switching to the other side to start all over again. This dance repeats front, side, back, side. Front, side, back, and side until you’ve cupid shuffled your little heart away. Okay?

So, one more time we start to the right. Right, two, three, now to the left. Left, two, four kicks here. One, kick, three, kick. And walk it out to switch to the other side. So now we’re going to do it four times. The first time will be a basic cupid shuffle and the next three times we’re going to add some spice to it. Okay? Ready?

Victor: Yeah, let’s do it.

LaShonna: Five, six, seven, eight. Right, two, three. To the left, two, three, kick it out. One, two, three, walk it out.

Victor: One, two, three, four.

LaShonna: To the right. Right, left.

Victor: One, two, three, four.

LaShonna: Now we kick. We’re going to walk it out really low this time. Get low. Walk it out low. Add this here. Now arms up. Arms up to the left. We’re going to look back. Look back. Hey! Now walk it out. Last time here we go. To the right, push. Let’s push these arms. And push. Now kick it out. Kick, kick, kick. And then we walk it out. Great job you guys. That is the cupid shuffle.