Hey guys, Audrey here at the Millennium Dance Complex in North Hollywood, about to meet up with two of YouTube's hottest choreographers. Let's go. Matt Steffanina, Dana Alexa, choreography masters. I'm not gonna lie, I have totally watched your videos and tried to do the choreography in front of my bedroom mirror. It's pretty terrible. Usually, I'm crying into my keyboard and being like, "Why can't I be like that one little Asian kid in the front in every class?" Um but I I just I'm so excited that that we've been able to work this out and you're gonna teach me some moves later. Well, let's just start with how you guys have built your following.

Oh, well that's mostly Matt honestly. Matt had a YouTube channel like before YouTube was cool. It was like years ago when he started it and he started kinda posting videos on there and then I started working with him on his channel about four and a half years ago. Okay. And um, in the last year and a half I think mostly the numbers just kinda exploded. He went from like a little under a million to three million in like a year or so.

Crazy. Yeah. And and you both have danced for some of the biggest names in music. I mean it's Snoop. Tiga. Taylor Swift, Wiz Khalifa.

Never heard of them. A lot of TV shows and a lot of TV commercials and stuff. But yeah.

Nice. Is it fun to kinda have your own thing and be able to share it with with the world?

Yeah, I think I mean that's the reason I started YouTube and continued it when I got to LA is because when you dance behind an artist, even if you choreograph for an artist, there's still a lot of input from their manager, their producer, their tour people, you know. But when you do YouTube, you really get to just make it exactly how you want it. You know, you get to pick the song, you can mix the music, you pick the location. It's like your vision on a screen, you know, so it really gives you control.

So how, I mean, you guys work together and you're also partners in life or soon to be. And you're also on The Amazing Race.

Yes. Yeah.

How was that? Because I'm always like I'm I'm always so curious especially when couples go on that show. It's

I just when people ask me that, I just say it's hard. Because I wasn't expecting it to be so hard.

Really? Now did you guys learn anything new about each other?

I learned that Matt can be super, super competitive. The most competitive I've ever seen him. I thought he was bad at home but like

He's like, he competes with you at

Oh, yeah. Like I'll compete with anybody over anything.

How do you work out? Like I just imagine because both of you are such talented dancers that like if you have a fight you just kinda like dance battle. Oh, you should institute that. It would be a lot of fun. Like if I had a boyfriend who was a dancer, I would be like, "No. Let's not use our words. Let's try Let's let Beyoncé settle it."

Totally. Totally. And the song will be "Who Run the World?" Girls.

That would be Yeah. That we probably would have done really poorly on the race if we handled every dispute with a dance battle. We would have been coming in last again. Still dancing on the sidewalk. You know, it's tough yeah.

He's super competitive. We we'll have an argument over a board game. You were mad at me once for like three days over like a board game argument. So I thought I knew his level of competitiveness but in the first couple of legs I think I looked at him like this for like the whole two episodes like

Wow. Yeah, you have to. Do you want to Do you want to do well or what's going on?

You know, and it's I actually really like that side of him because he's so calm usually in his regular demeanor like you know, he's competitive when we play games but in general he's really calm. Just like super patient. You know, always level-headed even when I'm like stressed he's calm. So it was cool to see that fire in him. He was feisty.

Dance Con. Please elaborate. What what is this and how can people kinda get in on this?

Yeah, well Dance Con is a show that currently is actually on my YouTube and the idea is that we spin a wheel, randomly pick a city off this whatever it lands on, and have a few days to fly there, organize an event, hold an audition, classes and then film a video the next day with the local dancers. So it's cool because most of my videos we always kinda have the same dancers, some of our kids that are really amazing which is great. But dancers will message and be like, "Where can I audition for one of your videos? How can I be in your crew?" And it's kinda like, "Unless you live in LA, you really can't, you know."

Right.

So this is an opportunity for us to go in and meet new dancers and give them a chance to show off what they've been doing in their city that, you know, they just don't have the opportunities that we have in LA. Well right now on the wheel we also have New York, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago and Washington D. C. So we're starting with with six and we'll keep switching it up. But part of it is mixing in some cities that we don't go to as often. I'm actually kinda excited to see like when some smaller cities get thrown in there like some new stuff. I'm really anxious to see how that'll turn out and you know, it'll really go well or it'll be like him and I alone with like a cow and and then we're like standing just being like.

Yeah. Are you ever kinda fearful that someone's gonna kinda rip off your moves?

Well, it actually happens all the time.

Oh, you're gonna say it probably happens all the time.

You know what? And the the people that follow us are more crazy about it than I am. I probably get a few emails or tweets a week of somebody being like, "Did you see this video? They stole all your choreography. I was at this talent show and they didn't credit you." Like real, real serious. So I think um they kinda handle that for me. You know, it's every once in a while you know, it's like it'd be nice if they at least mentioned that it was you know, our choreography but it's always an honor. Somebody likes your piece enough that they want to perform it at an event. It's really more about just sharing and you know, when I see a video more than anything I'm just happy that they liked it enough to to perform it and put it on tape.

Why do you think more people should get up and just dance and try it out?

Honestly, I really genuinely feel like it's harder it looks harder than it is. Like when you watch us dance it.

Yeah. Really? Oh, okay.

I feel like you when you watch us dance or when you watch dancers who are like you know, at like even kids who are at this like incredible level where they just really dance all day, they kind of make something that's pretty simple based like at its base look like oh my gosh they're like

Sure.

You know what I mean? Like it's impossible but you really can start and do the movement maybe not like as well as it looks on the screen at first but the movement at its core it's really not impossible to learn and it just once you start it gets easier and easier and it's I think it's intimidating the way sometimes it can look on video because we're obviously like we're selling it. We're adding all kinds of stuff to it, you know.

Yeah. It looks very intimidating.

Yeah, but it's not so bad and actually uh we have a dance tutorials channel on YouTube where Matt will break the dances down on Dance Tutorials Live and um, you know, he can break things down so well I think that if you stick with those tutorials like you can really learn something you thought you could never do. We've had a lot of dancers recently especially at the workshops come and be like, "This is my first dance class ever. I've been doing the tutorials online for six months and I finally got the courage up to come out." And that's a really big step. I was 18 when I started dancing so I remember my first dance class and I remember being terrified and being like, "I can't do this, I can't do this." So whenever somebody is like, "I picked it up later in life," you know, and I'm coming out and I'm gonna give it a shot. That's always like a really cool thing to see.

Well, this is my first dance class ever. I've been watching your tutorials for months. Yes. So I'm very encouraged by what you said and I think now you guys are gonna show me some moves.

Yeah. Six, seven, drop. One, two and roll. Hey and five, six and roll. Hey and snake. Two, turn over your shoulder. Tap, tap, tap. Beyoncé one, two, three, four cross five and six step footwork go right. Left, double. Hey and back. Hey and one. One and two.

I think we got it.