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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 20, 2021 22:18:46 GMT -8
Elena watched him as he calculated his moves. It hurt her little Spanish heart to see someone dance to this kind of music like this, but he did look trainable.
"Okay, I'm starting to see potential. She went back to her phone to change to a fuller playlist and took off her tank top so she was just in her sports bra. "Take your shirt off," she said, "I need to see what you're doing there."
She went over to him and took his hands, placing them on her waist and stomach, "feel this, okay?" She replicated her moves again, doing them slowly and slightly exaggerated so he could feel the way her muscles moved to make those motions.
She tugged at his shirt, "off or tied up," she ordered. She might worry about being rude later, but for now, she was in a teaching mindset.
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Post by Joshua Kim Jaeseo on Aug 21, 2021 11:59:36 GMT -8
Josh was relieved by the first half of Elena's feedback, glad that he'd been right and this was working better. He had needed something to start from. Then his brain caught up with her saying something about taking off shirts and stripping down to a fortunately plenty covering sports bra and putting his hands on her core so he could feel the movements, which was helpful, but also certainly a baffling thing that was happening.
Josh blurted out, "Shirt? What? Wait a second."
He took a second to focus on what Elena was trying to show him, kind of embarrassed, and trying to process how on earth Elena's mind worked. She got back to the shirt idea, and he latched onto the second suggestion. Tying his shirt up was much less dauntingly weird of an idea than practicing shirtless around someone who was a relative stranger.
He nodded and said, "I'm not sure that I entirely understand why, but I'll tie my shirt up. Does it help with seeing what I'm doing wrong?"
He had done this sort of thing often enough when it was hot in the practice rooms, and once or twice had that sort of styling for modeling. His abs weren't nearly as defined as Taehoon's, unsurprisingly, but he was lithely muscular, enough so that fans made a big deal of times that his shirt was up, somewhat to his bafflement. He was glad that he wasn't the member in Yuseong who usually did that sort of thing.
He thought about what Elena had shown him while his brain was trying to catch up and tried the motion again. Thinking about the muscle groups that needed to move, possibly a little too hard, he knew that his face wasn't in the dancing game right that second. It didn't feel natural, but in the mirror, the motion of his hips did look closer to what Elena had been doing. He glanced at her and said, "Am I going in the right direction with that?"
He was still flustered, ears a little bit pink, but he had a goal, and working with Elena would help him reach that. He'd not been around people this laid back about physical contact with someone that they didn't know well in years though, not since LA, and even then, not that many members of his friend group growing up.
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 21, 2021 12:22:40 GMT -8
“No waiting. Stop thinking,” she said tapping him on the forehead. She repeated the motions.
She was a little confused when he opted to tie his shirt up rather than take it off. Once it was tied it, it served as a reminder of where she was. She was used to machismo and the fact that many of the males in her life would have opted to be shirtless rather than make themselves seem “girly” by cropping their top.
She looked up into the mirror and realized that she really had just taken her shirt off without a second thought. She’d think over how this was going later, for now she just shrugged at herself.
She placed her hands on his waist and stomach while he did the move. “Better,” she said. She used her fingers to trace over a particular muscle group, “try it again but engage these.”
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Post by Joshua Kim Jaeseo on Aug 21, 2021 13:03:13 GMT -8
Josh laughed lightly when she tapped him on the forehead and said, "I'll try to think less about what I'm doing, but I'm very bad at not thinking about what I'm doing. It's an uphill battle."
He did try to at least broaden his focus to the feeling of what he was doing. Elena pointing out the muscle groups helped, but he also twitched away from her fingers, muscles twitching slightly and suppressed a laugh. He muttered, "Sorry, slightly ticklish. Thank you, that helped, let me see if I can do it better."
He wished that his shirt was back down, he wasn't ticklish enough for that to have been a problem through a shirt, but it also would have been harder to point out. He focused on the muscle groups that Elena had pointed out, facial expression more relaxed, and found that it did indeed help make the movement feel more natural. He tried the steps that she'd been showing him again, with that in mind, trying to keep the face and hands where they'd actually been working well to begin with. He said, "That did feel less strange."
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Post by Elena Moon on Aug 21, 2021 14:44:51 GMT -8
Elena let go and of him and clapped excitedly, "much better! You're getting the hang of it. Now you just have to get out of your head when you do it."
She used her watch to change the song to something slower and more sultry, "for example, I can do the same dance moves to this song, and it looks like this." She demonstrated a much more sensual version of the dance the took it's time with the movements and made a viewer anticipate the next move.
"Versus this," she said changing the song to something more upbeat. The same moves looked fresh and playful with this song. "See how the music dictates the mood and pacing? That's why I don't want you to think and I want you to feel the music."
She took note of the fact that he was ticklish and filed it away for later. She didn't know why should would need to know that information, but it was there now.
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Post by Joshua Kim Jaeseo on Nov 28, 2021 14:46:47 GMT -8
Josh thought it over, trying to figure out how to stop thinking about the movements so hard, realizing how ironic that was, that he was having to make a plan to stop thinking too much. He sighed at himself and said, "Maybe trying to do the same moves to several different moods would help, so that I can stop thinking about it as much, and start feeling it more because I know the moves and am just trying to match them to the music."
He knew that he was a chronic over thinker, it was just kind of how his brain worked, and it had been compounded by years of being the leader and having to keep track of everything, well everything that Taehoon didn't keep track of for him. He smiled just a little bit thinking of Taehoon, and wondered if focusing on those feelings and trying to put them into the dance would help with what Elena was talking about.
He glanced at her, wondering how strange this whole experience was from her perspective, but glad that she was willing to help and said, "Should I try again?"
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Post by Elena Moon on Jan 4, 2022 6:59:13 GMT -8
Elena shook her head as she watched Josh think about not thinking. "Your mind is a scary place isn't it?" she asked, not really meaning to have said it out loud.
"Okay, Mr. Overthinker, how about you spend a bunch od time thinking and analyzing the moves and repeating them until your brain thinks you've got it, then we'll work on your body getting it?" she could tell that she might not be able to break through his overthinking issue, so she'd let him try it. Her worry was, once he thought everything through, he might still be too calculated in the movements, but she was decent enough with shock therapy to hopefully snap him out of it if that happened.
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Post by Joshua Kim Jaeseo on Jun 29, 2022 17:04:13 GMT -8
Josh chuckled slightly grimly and said, "Sometimes it can be, yes."
He laughed a little bit more freely and said, "I see I get a nickname too. It's not inaccurate."
Thinking over what she'd shown him, he ran the moves several more times, feeling more relaxed into the set of steps and isolations. They certainly weren't as polished as he was in a lot of other dance styles, but he didn't feel incompetent now at least. He looked over at Elena and asked, "How's that looking in terms of the movements being at least mostly right? If it's not too bad, maybe we can try the putting it to different songs and having me try to adjust to the sound now?"
He was more relaxed than he had been before drilling the step sequence several times, though he still kind of wanted to put his shirt back down. He figured he'd live, it wasn't like there were cameras around.
He was definitely curious about Elena's reactions and responses though. She was impressively different than a lot of the others in the company who weren't Korean. She honestly reminded him more of some of the people he'd grown up around than anyone he'd met in Korea, but while it made him nervous, it was also kind of endearing.
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