WEBVTT - Strategically Out of Place (DWTS: The Next Pro 103) 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.280 Well bow, we are back. 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:22.520 We are ready to recap episode three of the inaugural 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:27.560 season of Dancing with the Stars. The next pro already 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:28.360 three episodes in. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:29.640 It is getting spicy. 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:32.680 It is like getting spicy. They did not hold back 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.559 this episode. Speaking of spice, one of us made some 0:00:37.800 --> 0:00:41.280 headlines from their takes last week, and don't I don't 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.120 love pointing out which one of us it was, but 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.479 I will say it was not the one of us 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:47.040 that came in. 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:48.720 Eighth place last season. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:52.159 So what are you feeling when you wake up and 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.639 see Valschmerkovsky headlines? 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.440 I got nervous, do you? I mean? I mean, yeah, listen, 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:00.920 I don't. I don't want to hurt a people's feelings. 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:01.320 Yep. 0:01:01.800 --> 0:01:05.320 So whether those are the feelings of the person I'm discussing, 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:08.640 or the family of the people, or the people that 0:01:08.880 --> 0:01:12.240 love the person I'm discussing, you know, it's not I mean, 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.240 it's hard to say it's not personal because I'm literally 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:17.760 speaking about the person. But this is just my reflection. 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.319 You don't got to take it either. I'm not like 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:22.560 banging my chest saying that this is the truth. This 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:27.080 is what I see and in my from where I'm 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.920 standing there's you know, my perspective and what kind of 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.480 value I would want to give this person. Yes, you know, 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.960 I'm not here to knock anybody down. So when I 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.640 see it, I'm conflicted because I want to end I'm like, 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:42.680 I didn't want to ruffle those feathers. But on the 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.480 other end, I'm mom. You know, I'm happy people are listening, 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:49.480 tuning in and are excited to you know, broad in 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:53.520 their ballroom dance perspective, dancing to the star's perspective. 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.800 Well, I love that you stand on your business because 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.800 you know what is for the show, and you're not 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:05.440 saying anything that isn't something you would say to their face. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.959 No, I would say, yeah, you would say it to 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.600 their face. Totally, totally. I mean, and if you can't, 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.320 you know, that's a very cowardly way of going about 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:17.320 sharing your thoughts about someone. All the thoughts that I 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:19.919 share publicly or thoughts that I would share privately to 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:24.200 that person. Now, certain private thoughts should stay private, but 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.960 this isn't one of those cases. This is a show 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:30.160 that's broadcast, it's millions of people right now, and this 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.239 is someone that's trying to win the position and the 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:39.519 opportunity to work alongside myself and other pros. Yeah. So yeah, 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:41.000 free game, baby. 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:41.239 That's right. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.520 Also, anybody who listened to our show and then looks 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.160 at the headlines also knows they are also a lot 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:48.720 of clickbait. 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:54.000 No, totally, totally, and and that's the frustration. Yeah, and 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:58.960 I appreciate that for the most part, people took the 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:02.240 time to understand in the broader context and my delivery. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.120 I just think it's important. You know, it's yes, of course, 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:09.720 it's what you say that's important. But how you say, 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:12.480 at what time you say, the effort that you put 0:03:12.520 --> 0:03:14.920 into thoughtfully say it, I think also matters. 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:15.520 Yes. 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.600 Dancing with the Stars the next Pro Season one, episode three, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.440 we open with a recap of episode two. For those 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:27.120 keeping score at home, Benji was eliminated, Robert our host 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.200 and judges Surely and Mark ballast enter and Robert gets 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.640 a wellness check from the contestants. Everyone agrees that it 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:37.200 has been a tough journey so far, and Mark reminds 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:40.680 them sometimes you have to be selfless to make your 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:45.760 celebrity look good. And that's some pretty good advice, right, 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:46.800 Well totally. 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:49.160 I mean that's the mantra of Bullram dance. As far 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:53.360 as you know, from the masculine side, we are taught, 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:57.560 if we are taught by good teachers from day one, 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:01.720 that our job is to present our partners, our ladies. 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.360 And you know, so much of the movement is inspired 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:09.280 by that philosophy, and I think I spoke on it 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:13.000 last week when I talk about the shadow position. Whenever 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.400 we have side by side choreography, the male is always 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:20.359 in shadow position. And because of that philosophy, not because 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:22.919 he's sacrificing anything, but just because these are the roles 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:26.040 that we are playing together here in this in this 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:31.200 team activity of bone dance. That's why I said what 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.800 I said about Benji and his role in the room. 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.599 But that doesn't mean that he couldn't shine in that style. 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.760 Of course he could, but that wouldn't be the style 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:43.080 that strategically he shined the brightest thing. That's so it's 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:47.600 all relative. These are all excellent dancers, but it's how 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:49.320 great you are next to the guy next to you 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:53.480 or the girl next to you. So I loved what 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:58.480 Mark said, and yeah, I'm excited. I wanted to get 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:01.200 into this episode because there's a lot of redemption as 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.240 far as you know we spoke about aj I have 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.159 you know, I think I'd surprise some listeners about my 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:11.159 perspective on him this episode. And yeah, the new drama 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.000 that unfolds. I just love how much drama is in 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:14.559 this show. 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:19.080 It is drama filled. Yeah, it started right from the beginning. 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.039 It was the moment we have all been waiting for. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:26.120 Our guest judge, the wonderful Britt Stewart arrives in a 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:30.840 stunning red dress with a troop behind her. Contestant Selena 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.159 is thrilled to see her. We've heard from Selena before 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:37.760 that Britt is her favorite pro. She's talked about the 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.239 fact that there's not a lot of black ballroom dancers 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.120 represented on TV, and so Britt is one of the 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:44.440 main reasons she's. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:45.760 Invested in the show. 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:50.040 And I have heard from all of you many times 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.880 that Britt is not only one of the world's best dancers, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:57.479 but that she is a very gifted choreographer. And we 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:00.799 saw it here. What do you want to say about 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:03.719 the queen that is Britt's class class? 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:06.479 And I think Britt, it's synonymous with Brit Stewart is 0:06:06.480 --> 0:06:10.800 the word class class. The way she handles herself and 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.320 the way she communicates, which I love because I think 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:18.400 the you know, that group of Next Prosy, they got 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:22.200 a sense of what a certain professionalism feels and sounds 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:25.960 like how you conduct yourself in the room, which was incredible. 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:31.920 So Brit did a great job team dances. What else? Yeah, 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:36.000 I mean, she's an incredible choreographer. I'm excited for this challenge. 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.480 I think it's perfect that we touch on kind of 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:45.080 just a different a different challenge and how that highlights 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.080 the different qualities and different people who can work in 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:52.640 a team. And otherwise as far as I guess, you know, 0:06:52.680 --> 0:06:55.800 back to Brit trailblazing. Yes, there's not enough black and 0:06:55.839 --> 0:07:00.960 brown representation in ballroom dance. Yeah, you know, I'm not 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:06.359 naive to the fact that it's an exclusive you know, 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:11.400 besides the popularity of it, it's an expensive activity. Shout 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:15.640 out to Pierre Delaine who take the lead. Is based 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:17.960 on that movie with Antonio Benderiz. You know, this is 0:07:18.400 --> 0:07:21.920 a dancer that dedicated himself to teaching and after school 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:26.760 programs all over the public school system in New York City, 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.080 the Greater New York City area. Again what the movie 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:34.840 is about, and he introduced partner dancing to a community 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:39.560 that otherwise just doesn't have access to that totally. You know, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.760 I try to find time to do the same. I'm 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.800 inspired by that, you know, the Latin. It's ironic to 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:48.720 me that I'm a professional Latin dancer. You know, this 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.800 is a community that adopted this Ukrainian kid, and I'm 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:56.320 enjoying a very fruitful career because of it. So I 0:07:56.640 --> 0:07:59.800 try to feel compelled to give back to that community 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:05.040 who dances authentically but never gets access to a high 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:10.000 level of education in the sport. So I think that's 0:08:10.000 --> 0:08:14.400 why I'm excited for Britt when she joined the Kios 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:18.640 and the Brandons and hopefully you know, the Sosas and 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.840 more and more, you know, like I said, I love 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:25.200 the fact that Schermerkovsky's Chigiences and Subchenko's and all these 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:29.880 Eastern European names. But it's fun to see, like I said, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.199 the black and brown community represent another show. 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:35.480 Well said Well, Britt performs to a cover of All 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.760 shook Ups, surrounded by the troop, and as always, she's magical. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.960 Robert is equally impressed, and Britt announces the challenge for 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.600 the week. It involves the ever popular element of dancing 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.880 with the stars, the group dance, most notably those big 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:54.199 show openers you guys are famous for. Now, now, as 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.040 someone who has participated in these numbers now for years, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:09:02.040 tell the listener what it's like prepping for the who choreographs? 0:09:02.160 --> 0:09:03.360 How long do you have? 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.800 Like, are you also doing this right alongside all your 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:12.400 celeb work and choreographing for that week and the next week? 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:17.240 Totally? Totally No, it's a huge undertaking, but it's exciting, 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:20.840 you know. To me, it's an opportunity for us to 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.840 first of all, become a student, to be directed by 0:09:24.840 --> 0:09:28.520 a choreographer that's invited. Sometimes yes, it's in house, right, 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:30.679 so it's one of the pros taking the lead choreograph 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.520 and a big number. But it's not me doing the 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.800 prepare you know the prepare work, right, I'm just showing 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.720 up and I'm total what to do. And typically it's 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:43.880 really cool dance moves. The issue is that it's at 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.720 six in the morning on a Friday, Oh my gosh, 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.880 and it's three hours and you have three hours to 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.800 learn the entire piece and shoot the wide and the 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.480 wide is kind of the final take for the director 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.000 production and everybody to kind of you know, figure out 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.160 how to compliment it. If it's a Friday and it's 0:10:02.160 --> 0:10:05.640 a Tuesday show, you understand how important that Friday three 0:10:06.120 --> 0:10:09.360 why it is right? And so that pressure was really 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.240 well communicated in the challenge. I love that. I love 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:15.319 that they got a chance to really feel the pressure 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:21.240 and the pressure of doing it clean right now. Yeah, 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:24.360 I mean that's the process. But they did a great job. 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.200 I mean, you saw how again. I have so many 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:32.320 sports analogies, but really it's whether it's sports or in 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:36.560 anything high pressure. Sorry that it is so loud out 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:39.000 in the studio in the closet, I know. 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:39.640 I love this. 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:44.600 You are at the time, obviously, and tell them to shut. 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:45.200 Up, open that door. 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.640 Hey, hey, simmer down, we're doing a podcast here. 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:53.320 Gosh, work doesn't stop for some of us. 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.480 They flipped me off. You can't hear it, but but 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:56.040 I could see. 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:58.360 Okay, yeah, send them, send them a leaf. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:01.240 I will. 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.600 This week, we got a little bit of a shocker 0:11:15.679 --> 0:11:17.679 because the contestants are told that they are going to 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:21.280 recreate the dance they just saw Britt perform. That's a 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:22.199 nice little surprise. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:22.720 I like that. 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.280 And then we get a confession interview from contestant Adele, 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:31.160 who admits that her background is in competitive ballroom, not group, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:37.640 so she's feeling nervous. How are these two totally different skills? 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:42.680 It's always okay, why why? 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.079 That's why again, you it's so hard to cast for 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:50.560 the show is because there's so many different hats that 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.800 you have to perfect and specialize in that you wear 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:57.560 on the show. It's a very unique hybrid of a 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:04.280 ballroom dance professional. Yeah, so competitive ballroom dance you're perfecting 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:06.760 pretty much the same seven moves. And I say that 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:10.600 loosely obviously, but it's about execution. It's like figure skating 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.600 in the Olympics. Yes, there's some artistry, but really you're 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.240 trying to get to the heavy hitters, right, who can 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:19.960 hit the four axle whatever, Who can do the thing 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.760 and the thing. That's what competitive ballroom dances. But that's 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:28.080 where you get, you know, the good ones, not the 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.240 ones that dabbled in it, but the ones that really 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:35.160 competed and won you. You could see the velocity, you 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:41.839 can see it, but there's very few. There's very little 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:46.160 time for artistry, creativity or individuality. You kind of find 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.960 that in between the cracks. But really you are just 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:54.720 executing excellence, and it's really a game of millimeters, and 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.280 hopefully you have a little bit of a performer in 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:59.640 you as well. Then that sets you know, if you 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.240 got a little swag, little seasoning too, all that mastery, 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:08.400 you're killing it. But again, we're not exercising constantly different languages, 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:12.520 hearing the same song and challenging yourself to speak a 0:13:12.559 --> 0:13:16.120 different language to the body. We have one language, not 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:19.679 even a language, one dialect, and we just speak it 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:22.960 to the best of all. That's competitive ballroom dance, right, 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:26.640 you know, then you have a then you have the 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:32.679 broader convention dance kid that now you know I've been 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.320 a part of for seven years with Jen, we teach 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.679 at a convention for many years. That's how I know Selena. 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.040 I know Selena for a long time too, not from 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:42.439 the ballroom competitive world, but I know I've seen her 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.320 shine for a long time at the highest level, but 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:48.600 at the highest level of speaking languages like jazz and 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:53.040 ballet and enough hip hop and enough tap to you know, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:57.000 to really be a master of all of these languages, 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.880 even at a young age. So that's why when we 0:14:00.920 --> 0:14:04.480 get into this episode and I see the clashes of 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:07.120 those worlds Right now, the ego start to play, right, 0:14:07.200 --> 0:14:09.640 this kid won Black Bull and this girl won this 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.880 and this, But they're looking at Selena, and Selena's like, girl, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.840 I've been the one for a very long time in 0:14:15.880 --> 0:14:18.880 a very big world. You've just never been a part 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.400 of it, right, And these are the qualities that I 0:14:21.440 --> 0:14:24.920 bring to the table, which is picks up choreography in 0:14:24.960 --> 0:14:30.120 five seconds. That's a discipline that is exercised over time. Yeah, 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:33.640 you know, even if the movement is foreign for her body, 0:14:33.680 --> 0:14:36.120 you could see that she's still picking it up and 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:40.400 downloading it very quickly and is ready to perform. Whereas 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:45.120 for borum dancers, because it's the same routine you're you're 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:50.240 really working on for years. Yeah, yeah, years. Imagine your 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.440 Cha cha or your fox shot. But you did it 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.800 not for three days, then performed in front of millions, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:59.720 then forgot it. You did it for ten months before 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:01.680 you and saw a competition for it. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.200 I for sure would have been able to do more 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.560 than just open my arm if I had ten months. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:10.800 Well maybe not that. 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.520 No, No, I'm saying, well, no, you did so much 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:17.480 more in just four days. But you I don't know 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.840 if that relates to other things. I mean, it's like baseball, 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:24.320 and it's not like baseball and banana bal but like 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:27.440 you got to be an entertainer too. And then there's 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:31.160 a third flip which is very important, which is now 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:37.880 a whole difference. I guess quality that separates the next people, 0:15:38.200 --> 0:15:44.000 and that's teaching of you. You could be a superstar. 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:49.160 Not all great professionals translate as well in coaching. You 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.600 see that in sports, you see that in dance. Yeah, 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:53.560 I mean, you could be an incredible performing that has 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.960 natural ability that you just you don't even know how 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.600 to explain. You're like, I don't oh, I just feel it, 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.200 and some people just feel it that you can't communicate that, 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.560 you can't teach that. And sometimes the dancers that never 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.640 really were the special ones that had to really work hard, 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:13.560 really had to come up with philosophies on how to 0:16:13.640 --> 0:16:16.840 go from A to B right, those end up being 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.280 sometimes the best coaches, the best teachers. They've done a 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.680 lot more analysis. And then on top of that experience, 0:16:23.960 --> 0:16:30.280 if you've never if you've never been nervous about charging 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:36.160 people money for forty five minutes of your time, then 0:16:35.920 --> 0:16:42.080 you don't know that sense of responsibility right, besides their time, 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:47.840 their money, their expectation, the studios expectation, you know, meeting 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.920 those pressures when you walk in and you meet a 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:52.960 stranger and on the spot, you have to know how 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:57.160 to communicate, how to analyze, and how to give feedback, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:00.640 and then how to execute that feedback and make that 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:01.920 person be a little better. 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:02.480 Right. 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:06.800 If you've never done that part, not performed, not dance, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.520 not but that part, then you are, Yeah, you're in 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.240 for a real treat here on dancing with the start. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.400 Yeah, that's that's a good point. Well. 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.359 With that, the hopefuls leave for group rehearsal, where Britt 0:17:18.400 --> 0:17:21.679 swings by and starts teaching the number. She focuses mostly 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.639 on synchronicity and spatial awareness. We see some immediate spills 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:30.960 and mistakes, most notably by Adele, who kind of predicted 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.919 that she was going to have issues here. Natalie seems 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:37.359 to be thriving. She likes working together. She's fast paced 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:41.040 with choreo, as does Selena. And the first session ends 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.520 and the girls hang back for more prep and we 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:49.000 see some headbutting between Selena and Nina, which is never 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.280 a great sign for group numbers. 0:17:51.840 --> 0:17:54.680 Here's so we'll get to the selena. They got get 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:57.600 to that beat. Oh, we fully get into the human 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:02.040 part of this thing. Back to the dance. You know, 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.199 the important things as far as going into a group number. 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:11.919 You have to be clean and precise and you know, 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:14.960 allude back to what Mark said, it's like when you 0:18:15.040 --> 0:18:18.480 serve the bigger collective, you look better. And that's the 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.600 whole point. It's not about you standing out in this 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.119 particular moment in time. It's about you become in uniform 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:30.119 with your team and man, you got to be a 0:18:30.119 --> 0:18:32.439 certain person for that as well. You got to a 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.720 be disciplined enough to want to be to be clean 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.879 and take those directions. But you also have to have 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.639 the humility to think about the broader group. And a 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:48.080 lot of people don't prioritize that at all, especially on 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:52.080 our show where you have cuts of camera. You know, 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.680 selfish dancers, they'll just wait for that cut and then 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.200 be back to you know. No, it's about sacrificing yourself 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.280 for the for the greater good, at least in these 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:07.399 group dances. And I think that's another quality that the 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:10.840 Convention world teaches because there's a lot of studio group 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:15.520 numbers and those those teachers are sticklers. I mean, if 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.160 we said forty five, then it's forty five every time, 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.359 not when I feel it, not when I know. It's 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.000 very robotic when it comes to executing those things. OK. 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.359 And in the born world, we don't have that. Yeah, 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:32.720 it's about individuality, it's about your team, your partner. But 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.200 really that's that's where it ends. And then it's about 0:19:35.240 --> 0:19:39.240 setting yourself apart from all of these other copies doing 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:40.600 the same seven steps. 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:42.480 Yeah, yeah, exactly. 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.040 Hold on, we're not going to skip We're not going 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:45.360 to skip over the Salina. 0:19:45.119 --> 0:19:48.679 Nina well to see them the way they are talking 0:19:48.720 --> 0:19:52.120 to each other. You know what, I think Nina suffers 0:19:52.119 --> 0:19:54.320 from a little bit of what I think I suffer 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.359 from in my personal life, which is I don't hear 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:04.480 my tone always, which I think she in her mind, 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:10.600 I think she thinks she's just saying something in a 0:20:10.800 --> 0:20:15.200 factual way and doesn't hear that she's saying it and 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:18.120 what comes across as a patronizing way. 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.280 Yeah. No, I mean I have a very renowned sibling 0:20:21.320 --> 0:20:28.159 that that you know about his delivery sometimes. 0:20:26.480 --> 0:20:28.399 And if you don't hear it, if you like I 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.280 don't think Max and I can do it too. 0:20:30.320 --> 0:20:31.600 I don't think Max or I hear it. 0:20:32.400 --> 0:20:36.640 No, no, and and totally and yes, you're completely right, 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:41.480 Nina is you know watching her, I know exactly who 0:20:41.480 --> 0:20:44.200 that is, not because I know who she is, but 0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:48.520 I know that prototype of an individual and not who 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.119 box her in. But I grew up in the Eastern 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:57.280 European tri state Brooklyn, New York, New Jersey Philly area. 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:01.000 You know, I understand that there's very little time for 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:03.960 nuance and explanation. It's like, this is what I want, 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:07.120 this is how I feel. Do you want something else? 0:21:07.200 --> 0:21:09.119 Tell me cool. I'm not gonna ask you. I'm not 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:11.119 gonna say please and thank you. Let's just get it. 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:15.280 And why I said southern galvocause' selena as far as 0:21:15.280 --> 0:21:19.160 I understand as a Southern Cali girl, very respectful, very 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:23.960 you know, I mean, she's competitive, but it's I mean, 0:21:24.080 --> 0:21:26.520 Jen and I have these conversations all the time, you know, 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.200 where I'm just having a conversation. She's thinking that we're 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:34.800 we're having a confrontation, right, But having all said all that, 0:21:34.800 --> 0:21:38.399 that's yeah, that's not that's not what happened though, And 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:41.159 that's not an excuse. And I'm gonna just shout it out. 0:21:41.280 --> 0:21:45.639 Nina was incredibly selfish and unprofessional. And it's funny coming 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.840 off of a week with the Benji situation not learning 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.680 a single thing about humility, you know. So again, I 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:55.280 don't want this podcast and everything I owe my feedback 0:21:55.280 --> 0:21:58.520 to be about humility because we will get to a juh. 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:03.159 It's a huge quality you're working. At the end of 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:05.639 the day, this isn't your show. You are part of 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.200 a collective and I'm just telling you and you could 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:15.040 you know, vouch for that. Yeah. In this business, for 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:19.119 every talented person, there's one hundred other talented people, right, 0:22:20.000 --> 0:22:22.440 It's all about how you make people feel around you 0:22:22.560 --> 0:22:26.720 and what you're like working with because if it's not good, 0:22:26.880 --> 0:22:31.760 like if it hurts working with you, next yeah you're thrankfully. 0:22:32.520 --> 0:22:35.400 Yeah, there are one hundred people ready to take your spot. 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:38.439 And on the flip side, that's why you have a 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:42.440 culture breeding like yes man and yes no. Look it's 0:22:42.840 --> 0:22:47.520 a balance, man, Yeah, it's a balance. You have to 0:22:47.520 --> 0:22:51.840 be proud for sure and have self respect of course 0:22:53.800 --> 0:22:57.240 after you earn it. Yeah, yeah, you know, and right 0:22:57.240 --> 0:23:01.680 now you just started so I just feel like, yeah, 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:04.040 and I guess we'll get to it. Because in the 0:23:04.119 --> 0:23:06.560 house they have a conversation and Salina kind of like 0:23:06.640 --> 0:23:08.840 brings that up one more time, and here's an opportunity 0:23:08.920 --> 0:23:14.160 to just be like, oh man, I hear you. Wow, Okay, listen, 0:23:14.320 --> 0:23:16.679 those are not my intentions. I know this is a competition, 0:23:16.800 --> 0:23:19.080 but I'm not trying to be that person. If I 0:23:19.240 --> 0:23:23.080 was that person, I'm sorry. That's not what I met. 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:25.879 When they talk about it at the house though. 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:30.280 The look on her face genuine shock though, because she 0:23:30.320 --> 0:23:33.280 didn't think that's where it was going. And that's what 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:37.920 made me realize. I don't think she hears herself at all. 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:41.360 I don't think when we watch it and you see it, 0:23:41.600 --> 0:23:42.960 you're like, oh my god. 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:43.840