STEEZY Dancers Show Off K-Pop Moves at KCON

STEEZY Dancers Show Off K-Pop Moves at KCON
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There are many aspects of the K-Pop genre to love -- there's the music (of course) and the fashion, and there's also that dancing! K-Pop artists have some of dopest and most complex moves around, and if you ever wondered where they get those moves, we got you covered! Young Hollywood heads to KCON L.A., celebrating all things K-Pop, where we catch up with choreography instructor Nick Joseph, content director Jessie Ma, and dancers Emanuel Ragaza and Aiden Alizadeh, who are part of the STEEZY online dance studio based right here in L.A.! Responsible for some of K-Pop's most memorable dances, including BTS, Nick and his crew share with us the process of creating choreo for artists and some of their fave artists to work with (so far). They also offer some advice for anyone hoping and trying to pick up those crazy steps!
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What's going on guys, joseph here with my two homeys.
Hello. I'm Aiden Amen.
Today we're at Comic Con. We're gonna be doing some stuff with C. C. Um At like 2 30 we're gonna do like a three C. One S live version and then we're gonna do a class I'm gonna be teaching. And yeah I was hoping to have a lot of fun here. I think my favorite group to work with thus far has been in hype in uh mainly because they do a lot of my choreography really well and they don't like to hold back. So they tell me to like create as if I'm creating for myself and so it's always fun to see them do what I give them to a very high level in terms of creating for K. Pop artists. Um The process goes they hit me up and um they say hey we have this track, we have these artists we want you to choreograph for and in doing so I send them a video submission with my dancers. Like these guys are in my submissions. Um And yeah we send off the choreography to them, They learn it and then sometimes they give us feedback revision, send another version and then we wait and see what they do with the final version. Um It's a very collaborative process in which I forgot for and then they also have their own performance director for as well. So it's a very cool like mix of styles and movements that really complements the dancers and the artists like um skills and strength BTS. Um I just really love those guys. I taught them for their Megan stallion remix to butter. Um And working with them was a really fun experience. I honestly didn't think that was gonna happen when I went to Korea. Um it was kind of out of the blue project but in doing so I was able to kind of give them something different that they hadn't done before or like did prior to when they're in their earlier days. Um A lot of choreography back when they first started off was very like difficult, very hard hitting. Um and now it's a little bit different so it's cool to give them something that was a mixture of like what they're currently doing than what they're, what they used to do as well. Um Yeah, I just really enjoyed my time with them. They're all like super cool dudes to like Yeah.
Mhm.
10. No, he genuinely has one of the best creative processes in terms of making intricate and unique pictures for a dance routine and uh yeah, thanks man, Nice man. How do you feel?
Hey knicks grade?
Yeah.
10 out of 10.
That's it bro. I love you bro. My favorite song right now is by like Ray, this is the newest song called spread the Ops. It's really cool um uh It's too on the spot for me, I can't Yeah, that song, any drake song. Yeah, Big shot by Kendrick first and foremost gets dizzy studios, that's how you're gonna do it. We have classes ranging from beginner to advanced from hundreds of instructors. Like it's it's literally catalog is so crazy. Like I cannot express to you guys how crazy. And extensive catalog of dancers and choreography and styles that are on there. Um So yeah, if you guys want to like do what we do and build yourself up in a really good way. City Studios is a very good, like foundational platform for you guys to use. Um And yeah, just taking classes in general, but you know, we can take those classes, it's easy, we're gonna take them.
What's up everybody. My name is Jesse Ma, I am the director of content at Stevie dot co, which is the best way that you can learn to dance online. We're based in downtown L. A. Where we shoot all of our content in house. So all of our classes are programs and the super fun Youtube content that you see Nick's face and a lot of that's where we make all of our stuff. So I know Nick because he is one of our instructors and our Youtube talent. So he teaches classes and he's in our Youtube videos which we're about to do a sneak peek of today. Yes.
Alright. My favorite thing about being around this cake on atmosphere is I just love seeing people excited for anything that they love like in general. And so to see people here like seeing their idols and seeing um dancers and choreographers that they wanted to me like it's a very like special thing. Um don't do that. Um But yeah, I just love seeing people excited for what they, what they love. And so that's been my favorite thing while being here. Honestly, I bought this jacket like a month ago and I was like, oh snap, I could wear for K con and then this is probably just like anything else I would normally wear. I just like to feel comfortable jacket squad You get this after one year working at. So I don't have, I don't have 10
Yeah, we need to get you one coming soon.
Uh Okay, well once again I really like dancing with the hype in while I was in Korea. I got to teach them like personally like just my own choreography and the pickup was crazy and like the vibe was crazy. So I would love to dance with them again. I would love to have BTS come in our studio. I actually back up dancer BTS before and oh yeah, I might have been doing your choreography but I was dancing to butter and I was dressed up as a piece of toast. I was actually first waffles and then they demoted me to toast but it's cool. I rocked it right, it was a James corden performance. But yeah, those guys are insanely talented, so hard working and they're dancing.
Yes. Am I a good dancer? All right. Oh, thank you.
Nick. Nick is 11 out of 10 Top tier S rank. He is incredible. Yeah. I um I I am a I love dancing. There we go. She's also very good. Thank you. 10 out of 10. She's being modest right now.
Hey guys, this has been Nick, joseph. This is jesse Ma from Stevie studio. Remember to sign up for steve dot co and download the app if you want to learn how to dance like Nick. And don't forget to subscribe to young Hollywood's Youtube channel. We'll see you next time.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Nick Joseph
Choreography instructor and interviewee
- Emanuel Ragaza
Dancer from STEEZY and interviewee
- Aiden Alizadeh
Dancer from STEEZY and interviewee
- Jessie Ma
Content director at STEEZY and interviewee
- BTS
K-Pop group Nick Joseph choreographed for
- Enhypen
K-Pop group Nick Joseph enjoyed choreographing for
- Megan Stallion
Featured on BTS's 'Butter' remix
- Ray
Artist whose song 'Spread the Ops' was mentioned
- Drake
Artist whose songs were mentioned by Aiden
- Kendrick
Artist whose song 'Big Shot' was mentioned
- James Corden
Host of show where dancer performed for BTS
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