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We paired Yogis and Metal Heads in a dance challenge… can they choreograph a 60 second dance in only 30 minutes?
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– I’ll do it with the peck bounce.
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– [Narrator] We brought two seemingly different groups
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of people into our studio to see if they could unite
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in a one of a kind dance challenge.
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– [Narrator] What is your favorite dance move?
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– I do like the hardcore, like the regular.
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– Mine, I kinda it call the magnetic caterpillar
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’cause it’s like my hand does a caterpillar
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and then my body is like the magnet so I’m just like,
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whoo, where is it going?
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Down the tree, that’s where.
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– I’m a little more classic,
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I like a regular fist and just a good head bang.
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Imagining slayer – The beard!
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– In the background.
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– When I’m dancing and going out,
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it’s more about like being in the moment
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So I like to just like hop and jump around a little bit.
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– I like doing, I call it the hair flip booty slap.
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Yeah!
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– You just kind of like…
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– Just a little bounce.
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– Yeah, like a bounce from side to side.
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– [Narrator] Do you know what you’re doing here today?
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– I assumed that I was here to come and dance
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’cause ecstatic dancing, that’s a yoga thing.
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– Yeah! – Oh, ecstatic dance.
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– [Narrator] Today, you’ll be choreographing
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a 60 second dance routine to a song that I’ll be giving you.
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– Okay. – Great!
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– That’s awesome.
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Yeah, that sounds cool.
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– [Interviewer] You’ll only have 30 minutes
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to choreograph and practice before the final performance.
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– That’s the concerning part.
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– Dance team!
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– Dance team!
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– [Interviewer] Before you start,
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we’re actually gonna bring out a couple more dancers
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to add to your team.
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– The plot thickens, alright!
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– How’s it going, y’all?
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– When I first saw the yogis,
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I thought they were gonna be kind of like
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that interpretive dance type of people or they, you know,
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you don’t know what the hell they’re doing.
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– When I think of metalheads, I think of dark energy
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and spikes and leather and chaos.
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– I guess I was worried
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that maybe our personalities might not get along.
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I also wondered if they were disappointed that we showed up.
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– [Interviewer] Alright team, this is your song.
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– That’s right up your alley.
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– It’s very happy.
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– Classy.
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– The stereotype of metalheads, I think, is usually
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kind of the opposite of a yogi,
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is they’re usually considered to be, I think,
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aggressive, kind of closed in and angsty.
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People don’t realize how accepting the metal community is.
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Most of the time, I got to metal concerts
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everyone’s just there to listen to music
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that most people don’t listen to
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and so there’s sort of a camaraderie.
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– That’s a long 60 seconds.
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– And we have to dance through all of it.
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– Yeah.
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– Great.
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– [Narrator] Your timer begins in three, two, one, go!
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– Um, cool!
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– So…
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– Something like that?
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– In turn.
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– So we go like one, two, three…
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– I’m like, can’t wait to rip my pants.
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– Yeah, I mean, we could do,
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we could start with something like this, right?
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One, two, three, four, and then like open up.
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– [Jonathon] Yeah! – Five, six, seven, eight.
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– What do we call this?
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– Warrior two-ish.
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– Someone who’s not a metal head,
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they probably see it was kind of an extreme type of music
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but I think there’s a lot of good energy channeled into it.
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I just gravitated towards it from an early age
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and one day, a friend asked me to DJ a bar
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and I could not believe that someone would pay me
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to play my records.
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I’ve been doing it for about six years, now
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and it’s kind of shaped me to be who I am.
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– What’s another rock move we could do?
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– Like, a hip thrust.
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– Like one, two, three, four. – We could transition
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into like…
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– We could do eight count on that.
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– Eight?
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Okay.
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– Eight?
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A full eight?
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– Initially, I thought there was no way
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that we’re gonna pull this off,
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it’s gonna be chaotic.
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But as we were talking and starting to come up with stuff,
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we gelled.
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Oh, I got it!
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We’ll do like, a mosh pit kind of a move, dance.
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– Oh.
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– A mosh pit?
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– Yeah, so we’ll like .
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Kind of, one, two, three, four, bam!
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And then the chest like–
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– [Annette] Is that what you’re doing?
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Alright.
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– One, two, three, four, bam!
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One, two, three, four.
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– [Kim] I don’t wanna hurt anyone.
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– Bam!
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– And then we catch each other in case in case–
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– Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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– It’s delicate, delicate.
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– One, two, three, four.
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– Wait, that doesn’t make sense,
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maybe we should like bump butts or something.
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– We could, yeah!
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Sorry, my head’s just so small.
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– No, and then I don’t wanna step on you.
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Okay, we’re gonna bump butts, sorry.
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Stitch it out.
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– And then you could do like a handstand in the middle
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while we’re doing like a mosh circle around you.
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– Over the years, I had a really hard time
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seeing myself as a yogi because the first yoga class,
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I didn’t know any of the postures
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and felt like I was just the one that stood out
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’cause I just, was behind.
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But no matter what level you’re at,
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anyone can be a yogi, as long as you have that passion.
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– What about your favorite move?
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I love your favorite move. – The magnetic caterpillar?
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– [Annette] Yes, yes!
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– So basically, it’s like a caterpillar
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and then you’re just following it with your body.
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Like, imagine whoo!
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– I feel like I’m very,
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need some shrooms!
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Some shrooms or something man.
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– I think people assume that I’m a huge stoner
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like a pothead, hippie, which is not true.
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By the way, there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Because you choose to do, but,
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I just like tie-dye and I’m sober
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and that’s probably like the biggest misconception.
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– [Robert] Yeah and so– – Okay yeah, we’ll do that.
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– Is it’s one, two, three, four,
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and then one, two, three, four.
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– I think it’s just two.
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I think it’s one, two.
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– I was a little nervous about whether or not
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we would finish up in time.
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Because I felt like we had lot of great ideas
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but I didn’t know if we had enough music.
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– I think all the yogis should do metal poses
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and all the metal people should do yogi poses.
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– Alright! – Oh, that’s fun!
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I really was, really nervous
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that we weren’t gonna have time.
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– I don’t have a pose, give me a pose.
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– Do a tree pose!
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– Okay let me–
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– Wait, but you’re in heels.
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– I’ll do this thing.
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– I’ll do it with the peck bounce.
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– I started getting stressed at the very end
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and I realized we only had like two minutes.
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And I was like, oh crap, we can only do like
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one or two full attempts
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to get it down with the music.
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– [Robert] From the top.
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– Oh, we’re starting from the top.
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– [Annette] Alrighty, all right.
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– Last full, right here.
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– I was a little anxious
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’cause I’m a perfectionist and so I was like
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okay, I don’t wanna be the one to F this up.
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– [Travis] It felt like okay,
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we got this routine, we got it down
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and we can do it!
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– [Jonathon] Believe it or not,
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I don’t really get too stressed, most of the time.
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So no, I wasn’t worried.
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I was confident.
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– [Kim] I don’t think I’ve ever
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done a coordinated dance with anyone
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so I was like, please don’t mess this up,
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please don’t make them look bad.
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– When we hit the final pose, all I thought was,
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that was it.
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We got it.
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– [Robert] It was exhilarating!
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It was incredible, it was a lot of fun.
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You know, I’m actually thinking about
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becoming a professional dancer.
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Not, but I think it came out pretty good.
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– [Annette] I met some really cool people today.
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Everyone contributed a little bit of their style
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and I think that’s why it turned out so cool.
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– [Kim] I’m not surprised that the yogis
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and the metalheads meshed so well.
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We were both groups that were pretty open
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to each other’s ideas
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and I think we all felt really connected by the end of it.
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– [Yuuki] After today, I’ve realized that we’re all human
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and that we can actually get to a level of understanding
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and empathy with one another.
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– [Jonathon] It makes you realize in your day to day life,
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how many of your assumptions would be
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completely flipped on their head
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if you just took the time to like, interact with someone.
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We find, we’re more alike than different
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I think, most of the time.
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– Do I have tattoos?
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Yes, I do have a metal tattoo.
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Actually this, this whole arm is an Iron Maiden tattoo.
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From Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
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which is an Iron Maiden song based on a poem
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by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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And then the inside is Icarus,
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also a metal song from Iron Maiden.
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