One epic Indian dance, with only 4 hours of total rehearsal time. Challenge accepted.
In this episode, the Musketeers race against the clock to produce a festival program from scratch. Paying tribute to the millennia-old rich culture of India, the Musketeers try their best to capture the spirit of Bhangra and Ghoomar in a dance piece choreographed by Musketeer Jisung. Although formally trained in classical Chinese dance, the Musketeers have performed many different dance styles on stage throughout their careers: Slovakian folk dance, Flamenco, West African Sinte, Korean folk dance, Mongolian chopstick dance, and Tibetan drum dance, to name just a few.
Being true admirers of all epic dance styles, Will, Sam, and special guest Kenji now try their hand at the energetic and powerful Punjabi celebration! Hope they can pull it off (like and comment if they do)!
No, I've never done an Indian dance before.
Kim was about to cry.
It's over for this dance, okay?
Hey, welcome back with the 3 Musketeers.
My name is William.
I'm Jisung.
And I'm Sam.
In today's video, we're going to challenge ourselves and try Indian dance.
Let's do it!
So the reason why I'm making Indian dance this time is because whenever I watch Bollywood
movie, it makes me want to stand up and like dance together.
I really love that.
So before I start, first I want to apologize that I never learned Indian dance before.
I only learned it from watching videos.
It might not be that authentic.
But I'll still try my best and I'll do my research.
So please understand and enjoy the process.
Okay, hello guys.
I'm going to teach you the Indian dance.
None of these dancers have ever done Indian dance before.
But we're going to go on stage in two days.
When they told me that I only had two days to do this dance, I didn't believe them.
I didn't want to do it.
But because Jisung begged me, I guess I'll try my best to do it, okay?
Jisung, for you, okay?
Liar.
I didn't beg you.
Okay, okay.
Anyways, it's going to be fun.
Okay, I'm going to enjoy it.
Let's do it.
First, we're going to set the formations, then we'll start teaching them the movements.
Hey, Kim, you're so girly.
You make girl movements.
Why do you make girl movements?
This is kind of funny part that like, because I have to make both guys and girls dances,
so it's kind of hard for me.
Because one thing is like a feeling of the movement is a little bit different with the
guys and girls.
So I actually have to learn and practice the movements.
And when I actually make the dance, I use an earphone.
And I think about it and people kind of give me a weird look.
It's like, why are you doing this?
It's kind of hard, but this is like very necessary to make the dance better.
How was your first dance session with choreographer Kim?
Actually, this is not my first time cooperating with Kim, but...
I hope it's my last.
Yeah, I hope it's my last time.
Okay, he's still here, so don't tell the truth.
Five, six, seven, eight.
To make one dance, I had to listen to at least like more than 10 hours.
When I listen to music, I need to have a slight spark.
What are some similarities between classical Chinese dance and Indian dance?
The sword dancing, it has more angles and more head movements and definitely a lot more
hip movement, which I'm not that used to yet.
Your hip is go a little bit like, it's not like, like completely straight.
It's like a little bit like tilted.
So one, two, three.
You have two days to make a dance and bring it on stage.
Are you feeling nervous?
Are you feeling pressure?
Okay, I don't feel nervous.
I'm kind of stressed though.
It's a lot of work, especially the schedule is jam-packed.
So yeah, I've been sleeping very little.
So do you think we'll be able to make it though?
But I trust in people.
You know, all of them are like a very experienced dancer.
So I think, I believe that they can do well for sure.
Better.
You better.
Is that a threat?
No, no, no.
But I actually trust that, you know, people are going to do well.
Alright guys, alright guys.
So we have a situation, okay.
This is what happened, okay.
We originally thought we had six costumes, but we only had three costumes for the guys.
And we were going to cut the dance and Kim was about to cry.
No, I'm not.
Jimmy volunteered to drive around four hours to get the costumes for us.
No, I won't.
No, he will.
Thank you, Jimmy.
So Will is calling a local Indian, not even local, it's two hours away, four hour drives.
How about this, I'll actually call her and ask her to send me some pictures.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
So Will is calling right now and he's going to see if they have the costumes.
And hopefully they do.
If they don't, it's over for this dance, okay.
Okay, thank you so much.
Okay, bye bye.
No, I have to show you something though.
Will, do they have the costumes?
Yes.
Will, do they have the costumes?
I want to show you.
The reason why I had to call them was because, look, Indian Clothing Store, New Jersey.
And then this is what the picture looks like when I look it up online.
I was like, that's a gas station.
So I had to call them and they actually do, are open today.
And it's actually Indian Clothing Store.
They sell some formal wear and also, yeah, some casual wear for men.
Oh, okay, okay, we did it, we did it.
We got the costumes.
Okay, so let me tell you what I have.
I went into the room, my room.
I went to Kim's room today and then I saw him.
The room was dark.
He was sitting on the chair eating snacks.
I asked him, Kim, what's wrong?
He said, we're going to give up on Indian dance.
I was like, wait, what happened?
He's like, we don't have the costumes.
But now he's back.
Kim is on high stress level, but don't worry.
We're going to get the costumes and we're going to make this happen.
Okay?
One day until the performance, we're going to do this.
Okay, guys?
Let's do it.
These are Sam's glasses.
Because we have an important dance assessment coming up, we had to focus on that for the
rest of the day until later that night.
All right, guys.
So right now it is 10 p.m. and we just started doing Indian dance for the first time today
because we had other stuff like assessment and everything.
And so what's going on right now is Kim is so busy doing both the girls' and guys' parts
that right now the guys have to figure out their own part.
So Will has taken command of the guys' part and he's teaching us the movements based off
of his knowledge on Indian dance, which I'm sure is a lot.
Have you ever done Indian dance before?
No, I have never done Indian dance before.
We're in the midst of preparing for an important dance assessment, so everyone is very busy
and I'm feeling a bit stressed as well.
But seeing everyone work so hard together is really encouraging and it's a great chance
to try something different.
All right, guys.
Tell us how you feel about this performance tomorrow.
Are you ready?
I feel less ready than yesterday.
I just can't remember the movements.
I feel good.
What time is it?
Tell the audience what time it is.
It's 11.
We've had like two hours total to do this dance so far.
We're performing tomorrow.
Good luck.
I don't know how to wear these pants properly.
As you can tell, it's our first time ever trying on this costume.
Diana is attempting to wear the sari.
By the way, did you know that there's 80 different ways to wear this?
Okay, Diana, do you know what you're doing right now?
No, of course not.
Look at this un-fine line.
Okay, right now Kim is stress-eating.
Kim.
What happened to your diet plan?
Yeah, tell us about your diet plan now.
There's no diet plan when you're stressed.
It's okay, we can understand, Kim.
Keep eating.
Tell us how you feel.
The performance is tomorrow.
You think we're ready?
So it's been like 30 minutes and we're still...
What are we doing actually?
We're trying to make work.
Performance day.
Okay, give us a heads up.
What's going on?
We're doing the last rehearsal and then we're going to walk the stage.
We only had 20 minutes for blocking and rehearsal on stage.
To be honest, it wasn't that great.
So...
I failed.
As you can tell, this guy messed up a lot and I messed up a lot.
I didn't mess up that much.
We walked the stage and it was not that great
because usually we have a mirror in front of us so we can look at each other
but on stage there's nothing there.
So we were like messing up left and right.
And I bailed twice.
You bailed twice.
And so right now we're back in the classroom.
We're going to do some last minute rehearsals.
And hopefully we can get this down.
Woah, woah, woah!
Hey!
Hello, Pichu.
Woah, I don't think you look Indian.
I'm sorry.
Maybe after you apply the goatee.
But you look good with the mustache on, to be honest.
How do I look?
I think you look okay.
It's not staying on though.
Alright, so right now we're doing some last minute rehearsals.
I should be rehearsing right now so...
I can't see it.
What do you guys think about three musketeers with mustaches?
Do you like it?
We can start growing them now.
Okay, I'm the third one.
Kenji on the...
Jisung's not Indian.
Two musketeers and one samurai.
Wow.
How'd we do?
Yeah!
We did it!
So we made no mistakes, okay?
That's success already, okay?
Did we not make mistakes?
No!
No, we did good!
No, we did not.
Alright, good job, guys.
Good job, guys.
Hey, Kenji, how do you feel?
Good.
I didn't mess up.
How do you feel?
How do you guys all feel?
Good?
Good.
Alright, fist bump.
Alright, good job.
How do you feel?
Very good.
I'm very satisfied.
What do you feel when you're watching?
Huh?
I was...
Actually, I wasn't nervous before,
but when I watched it,
I was kind of nervous.
But I think you guys did an actually awesome job.
Good job.
Awesome, awesome.
Anything else to say?
Nothing.
Take a good rest,
and then we'll just focus on the dance exam now.
Were you surprised that we were able to do well?
No, I wasn't surprised,
because I expected...
I'm kind of messy right now.
The costume was $400.
I think overall,
we did a great job!
Yay!
Yeah, it was a really good experience,
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