DANCE CAPTAIN DANCE ATTACK: Ben is Rollin' with TINA's Leandra Ellis-Gaston!

Hi Broadway Buddies, it's your Broadway BFF, Ben Cameron

Join me and my Dance Captain friends as we get to learn choreography from the shows

from the people that know it best. This is Dance Captain Dance Attack

Can you like me? Oh, hello you big beautiful Broadway world

And it's me, your Broadway buddy, Ben Cameron. And you are watching another episode of Dance Captain Dance Attack

Today is super exciting. I don't know if you can tell how I entered screen today

That's called a paddle turn. And you're going to be learning a lot of them today. Because today is all about Tina

The Tina Turner musical. As we learn choreography from the dance captain, Leandra Espieste

Here I just go. All right, Leandra. Let's do it. What are we doing

We're going to learn how we are here. Yes. Ready? Here we go

Let's get right in. We're going to start with three power turns to the left and three to the right

We're going to do it by the tempo. We're ambidextrous. Yes. So we'll start here and we have one, two, three, and you're going to release the body down

Now we go the other direction. One, two, three, release the body down

Then we're gonna go to the side, we're gonna go one, two, three, just a nice brick palm with a kick at the end

Absolutely, yes, yes, yes, yes, I say yes to that. Now we're gonna use those same shoulders. Okay

And we're gonna push up with the left arm, on the toe, then up with the right, up with the left, and then up with the right

So we have four of those. So you kind of step into it? Yes you step right into it Okay And you wanna hit the wall behind you Hit it Hit the wall Hit the wall I very familiar with hitting this Out of this one we up with the right Okay We going to take this arm back and push

Oh, yeah. Push. Yeah. Live in this moment and keep pushing it back one more time. Push. Push. Mm-hmm. Yes! Work! Yes

I did want to wear my shorts today to show off my Tina Turner-esque leg. Take me the best

This is like all my dreams come true. So we have push, two, three, four, push, push

Now we're going to slide this left foot back, my jambs. Slide, two, three, yes

Kick ball change. You're going to pull that foot up. And you're going to lay in here. Yes

Off, off to the races. Slide, two, and three, kick ball change. Woo

I am so proud! Mary, I'm so proud! Now we're gonna do the things I can't walk, which goes walk, walk, walk, walk, walk, walk

walk, walk, walk. But it's really all about feeling and how you find the movement in your body

There's a Tina in everybody. There's a Tina in you. gonna go kick down shimmy them down shimmy on up and then we're gonna go pony pony

now you know those i-cat walks? uh-huh i do one two three five six seven eight

this time it's like we're walking to a mic okay then we go burn it oh

do we say it like this? And then we have this angle we go look, look, down, down

Look look down down Now you going to take your right foot and you going to push it back And look away Glide yes Turn

Turn it! Yes! Yes! Turn it! And then we go, and we're rolling

Ladies and gentlemen, this is the moment we've all been waiting for

And we're rolling. Rolling. Yes, then we go. Rolling. Oh my gosh

Oh my gosh. Yes! Oh my gosh, this feels so right. I can't believe my luck today

Rolling on the river. Yes, yes. And the river. And can we sing that

Yes, we're singing. Oh, yeah. Our measuring mic is just... It's picking..

It's just the two of us? Just the two of us. You didn't need anybody else today

So we swing down, And swing it down. And swing it down

And swing it down. And now it's four. Down lift. Down lift

And then we stop here. Oh my gosh. So, Leandra, for you, is this your first time dance captaining a Broadway show

A Broadway show, yes. What's the most challenging part about being a dance captain

I will say the heart of the biggest challenge is because I'm against having to swing sometimes

teaching new people new things like getting a new person into a track at a time

and also remembering what track you have to do while correcting somebody at the same time

sometimes the layers can add on top so you're just like oh so you're on stage doing a track

that you have to remember me and my are going okay wait a minute Sally's over there she needs to pull up stage a little bit yeah that formation's off yes it's like it's weird when was the last

and we have a day off Ha ha ha Yeah ask any dance captain that question Yeah Yeah great They don They don You ready I ready Are you ready Let have a Dance Captain Hotel

Good job in a city Working for the man every night and day

And I never lost when being in a sleep And worried about the way things might happen

Big wheel give a turn But I'm trying to keep on living

We're rolling, rolling, rolling on the river Yes

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