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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 18:12:05 GMT -8
Seojin was focused on the dance now, so she reached out completely unselfconcious and adjusted the angle of Elena's arms before taking the starting position herself. She counted out the moves, watching Elena as well as she could and occasionally reaching out to adjust a position.
She nodded once they were done and said, "Good, let's do it to the music and then we can go over the next, longer phrase, the part that you were trying the shoulders for earlier."
She reached down and started the music using the starting time on the video to get into position again, and trying to run those first 15 seconds at speed while keeping an eye on Elena.
Once they were done, she said, "Ready to go through the moves for the part with the shoulders? This part, is mostly all of them doing the same thing side by side through the 35 second mark, so we'll practice the same parts and do them side by side."
She was excited for this part, and she also thought that it would help Elena with distinguishing some of the specific movements between the styles.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 18:24:16 GMT -8
Elena was trying to contain her smile at how serious Seojin was when it came to dance. She wanted to throw her arms around her every time she corrected her just because she couldn't contain how Seojin being authoritative made her feel. Though she wasn't entirely sure she could place that feeling, since she'd never felt it before.
She reigned her mind in and walked through the steps with her, feeling a thrill of delight every time Seojin adjusted her position. She was happy to have received enough approval to move on to the next section of song.
She loved the shoulder part, but she knew she used a little too much chest and a shimmy-like motion which was not what it called for. "Did you pick the dance where you get to put your hands all over me instead?" she laughed, but enjoyed the notion of it.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
Single, very closeted.
04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 18:51:45 GMT -8
Seojin realized at Elena's accusation that she kind of had chosen the dance where she was the one putting her hands all over Elena. But at least this way she had a little bit more control over the situation. She managed to get out slightly awkwardly, "It's hard to show dance without touching at least some."
She knew that Elena was right though. At least she didn't seem angry about it.
She focused on the move with the shoulders to distract herself from the discomfort of the realization. She said, "It's three separate isolations: shoulders, rib cage, hips. The rib cage rotation is on the beat in single time."
She stopped and demonstrated, just doing the rib cage rotation at speed, "One, two, three, four, like that."
She pointed to her shoulders and said, "It's hard to tell they're different at first glance because they are kind of moving in the same general direction, but the shoulder isolations are on the half beat, so like this, one and, two and, three and, four and. There's an extra move in there."
She pointed to her abs and then her hips, "You keep your core still, and then the hip isolations are sharp and match the timing on the shoulders."
She looked at Elena and asked, slightly daring this time, "Do you want to try doing it just from watching, one isolation group at a time, or do you want to feel it first."
She tried not to show that she was embarrassed that she'd even asked that, that she'd asked Elena if she wanted to touch her, even if it was just to better understand the dance.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 19:03:00 GMT -8
Elena smiled, "I like it when you touch me, unnie, so I'm glad you chose this song," she said, without a lick of embarrassment.
Elena watched as she went through the separate isolations, placing her hands on Seojin's hips the instant she offered, "Can you do the hips? I want to feel how these moves are different from what I did earlier. I think I'll also need you to maybe put your hand here," she pointed to the middle of her chest, "or here" then to her solar plexus, "to make sure I don't move so much for the shoulder isolations. I may get very Spanish and start to shimmy."
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
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04/04/2002.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 19:13:50 GMT -8
Seojin lightly put her own hands over Elena's on her hips, tapping out the beat of the rhythm as she said, "One and, two and, three and, four and," again she did it, trying to convey how the movement connected to the song. She knew that she was blushing because she was thinking about it too much again, but as long as she focused mostly on the dancing part, she'd make it through. It was exciting in a way, but also felt like she was about to go tumbling down a cliff.
She stilled at Elena's request, took a deep breath, and rested one hand, fingers brushing almost too lightly, at each of the places that the other girl had indicated. She said, sounding slightly choked, "Alright, you try again."
She felt like her heart was pounding far too loudly in her ears, but she just tried to focus on the dance part. If Elena could figure this out, then she'd have made a big jump towards translating between the two styles.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 19:21:33 GMT -8
Elena could manage the hips alright. She had to remind herself to move them with a 'click' rather than a 'bam.' For some reason, 'bam' meant there was a sold hit but it included rotation and sway, 'click' on the other hand meant something much more like Seojin's style. The rib cage isolation came fairly easily to her.
She shivered as Seojin's fingertips brushed against her skin. She tried the shoulder isolations but ran into the problem she thought she'd have. She was bringing much more of her body into play than just her shoulders.
She tried again, pretending that she couldn't move the parts that Seojin was touching and at a much slower pace, it seemed a little easier.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 19:40:39 GMT -8
Seojin saw what the problem was once she was touching Elena while she did the move almost immediately. She took her hand from the other girls solar plexus and reached around to press her palm into Elena's back between her shoulder blades, even though she had to step dangerously closer to do so. She managed to keep her voice steady as she said, "My hand is right on the axis that you're moving your rib cage on. There's no up and down in the rib cage, and each shoulder is moving as it's own unit in countermotion to the other. But I'm going to hold my palm still, and your spine shouldn't move out of alignment with it."
She put a little more pressure on the fingers that were against Elena's sternum as well. It was hard not to with how much closer they were now standing. She realized now that she probably could have gone around behind Elena, but she'd committed to this course at this point. She tried very hard to focus on nothing but Elena's shoulders.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 19:52:37 GMT -8
Elena felt a chill run through her when Seojin placed her hand on her back. She really wanted to make a comment on how the other girl was making her feel, her family had always taught her to be open and honest about her emotions, but she thought that now was probably not the time. She tried to remind herself to do it later, but that would likely get lost in her brain somewhere.
She tried the move again and found it much easier now that Seojin had explained how to do it with her hand in place. She was able to continue the move until she had it up to speed. She then combined all three isolations, executing the move in time, "how was that?" she asked.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 19:57:01 GMT -8
Seojin grinned brilliantly as Elena managed to put it together. She looked up into Elena's face and nodded, "Just like that! You've got it!"
She then realized again that she had her arm around Elena's back and was standing right up in her personal space, staring up at her, and froze. Very slowly, she lowered her hands, as though she forgot about holding them up, the hand that had been on Elena's back drifting down to rest on her hip, mindlessly tapping out the beat of the music because that was still lingering in Seojin's mind with everything else being currently too confusing to handle.
She wished that she understood what was going on in her own brain, and if Elena was doing any of this on purpose. She couldn't tell where the cultural differences ended and the personal attention began.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 20:05:57 GMT -8
Elena looked down at Seojin, realizing that she'd frozen. Her mind did a quick run through what had happened and why she would freeze but came up blank. Then she felt the beat being tapped out on her hip and she understood. Were they standing too close?
She was tempted to lean in and kiss the other girl. It wouldn't take much, and she'd already caught herself staring at her lips several times. She decided against it. "Unnie?" she asked, unsure how to best break her out of it.
Elena was very comfortable with the position they were in, but she could also see that Seojin was probably struggling and looking for a way out. So she decided to be silly. She did a terribly executed, wacky wave-like dance, grabbing Seojin's hand and making sure the wave ended at their connected hands, "your turn!"
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
Lesbian.
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 20:19:17 GMT -8
Seojin blinked a few times and then started giggling, taking a few moments to get her laughter under control, before imitating the movement, and mouthing, "Why?"
She shook her head, shaking off the discomfort and trying to return her focus to the dance. She was a little sheepish as she said, "Sorry. Now that you've got that move, let's run the whole thing up to the 34 second mark. You learn really quickly."
She could tell she still sounded a little off, and she was still holding onto Elena's hand, having completely forgotten through all of her own nonsense to drop it. She was also trying not to focus on the fact that she'd seen Elena look at her mouth. She was probably just deluding herself, and even if she wasn't she had no idea what to do with this information.
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 20:25:45 GMT -8
Elena giggled with Seojin when she mimicked her crazy dance move. "You seemed like you had wiggles to get out."
She let herself be dragged by Seojin back to their starting positions, "unnie, this dance is going to be really funny if we do it like this," she said, swinging their clasped hands. She thought about it and tried to place her hands on her waist to do the shoulder dance with Seojin's hand still in hers. "I mean one of us could do it, but not the other," she laughed trying to imagine how they'd both manage if they kept holding hands, not that they would.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 20:33:37 GMT -8
Seojin stifled another laugh and reluctantly pulled her hand away, saying, "You're right it wouldn't be very effective, would it."
She went over and set up the music again, watching Elena carefully for this run through. She was relieved at how fast Elena clearly caught on. She told her, "You're good at picking up new things. I'm glad."
Once they'd finished the run through, she was on a more even footing with herself again. She told herself to avoid more foolish touching and focus on just dance touching. Elena would initiate plenty of foolish touching on her own.
She said, "The next part goes from the 34 second mark with 'I'm so bad, bad.' Where both of us should do what the girl in the center does because it's the more flashy move, and the others are kind of supporting it, but since there's only two of us, it would look unbalanced for only one of us to do the flashy move, and more weak to have both of us do the support move. But once it goes into the part where everyone but the center spin around with the crossed legs, we should do what the others do. And this bit goes through about the 43 second mark, right before 'I'm just on my way.'"
She showed Elena the stretch she meant on the tablet and asked, "Think you're ready to try that part?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jul 25, 2020 20:42:06 GMT -8
Elena beamed, happy to be complimented. "It's so different being here rather than being home. The company sent me a video of the choreography and I learned from that, but it's much easier when you teach it."
She moved closer to the tablet and Seojin, linking arms with her again when she showed the next section of dance, "yeah, I think I can try that." She let go of Seojin and mimed a few of the dance moves before nodding and getting back into position.
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Idol (leader and main dancer of J.B.N.).
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Post by Woo Seojin on Jul 25, 2020 20:58:09 GMT -8
Seojin nodded and said, "It's easier to learn in three dimensions. It took a lot of time and effort to learn how to translate it quickly from video to movements. But I taught dance for a few years before I got accepted as a trainee. It was the part time job I did to afford vocal lessons."
She watched carefully in the mirror as they did the next stretch. Especially paying attention to both of their details in the hands. The footwork of this part was relatively straightforward, but the hands had very precise angles. She was much happier with her own execution of it, and overall, she was pretty pleased with how Elena did it as well. She said, "We'll need to practice it together a little more to get the angles of our hands more precisely matched, but that was good. This is a nice little moment to relax before we get into trickier parts again."
She pulled up the tablet again, holding her arm open to the side for Elena to come watch it beside her. Before she started the next clip, she said, "This part has some bits with tricky balance because you're doing a complicated leg bit hopping on one foot, from 42 to 44 seconds, and you have to keep your torso really still while still keeping track of the hand movements."
She realized that she was going in tiny segments through this one, but there was a lot going on, "Then the bit right after it, where the girl in the red tank top is interacting with the camera, doing it with two people, I'd actually turn and face each other for that part, and then turn back to the front for the next part, but that does up the complexity because coming out of the hop kicks you have to subtly do a turn. And then turn back to the front to run up for the part starting at 46 seconds. Let me know if you think that you'd be able to work the turn in or if it would work better to just face forward the whole time and have both of us do the screen interaction."
She said, "And finally, we wrap up the part going through the 50 second mark continuing to do the girl with the red tank top's part. Basically, she's the center through this, and with just two people, it doesn't make sense to do the support parts."
She went back to the the 42 second mark and played out the 8 second stretch that she'd been talking about again so that Elena could see it all together again.
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