I Learned How To Dance In 30 Days

Hi, I'm Ashley and I want to learn how to be sexy. You probably know me as the awkward girl from Sue's pilot. I have always felt very comfortable playing that character. I think it's really fun to fall and make funny faces. I don't know how to flirt with people, but in my real life that awkwardness has translated into who I really am. I think a lot of people ask me why

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to feel sexy because I think there are a lot of other things you can do to feel sexy, but for me people are the most confident when they're just on a

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floor feeling like themselves and looking amazing and I had never felt this way about my body.

I went through puberty early. He was taller. that everyone else I wasn't very good at being feminine, I slouched a lot and just didn't feel comfortable being myself. I basically categorized myself as the smart type of girl and not the beautiful or sexy type of girl. the rules of this video is that I am going to dance I will do it in 30

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and I am going to do it in front of my entire office when the idea of ​​dancing came to me I knew I needed a dance instructor and I called Kyle hot egami and I called, I want I mean, I got into your DMS.

Kyle is an incredible choreographer. Work on YouTube. He has videos that have over a hundred million views. He has worked with JLo. He has worked at ABC. He has worked with Dancing with the Stars. I've literally been everywhere and I wanted someone who could really teach me how to dance well. Once I convinced Kyle to do the video with me, he recruited his three coolest ladies, Hailey, Emma and Ashley, to come help me learn how to dance and them. I became my dance mother. The first thing that happened after I agreed to do this. I called Kyle and told him I didn't know what to wear to dance and he was like, "Oh, like baggy dance clothes, I had no idea." What that meant for the first class I had to do, Kyle had me go to an industry class that's just with people who only have talent agents.

I showed up in a pink hoodie to a professional dance class where I had never danced before and it was all black, Kyle wanted to include me with the sharks so I started at the top and quickly went to the Super Bowl. You did great in first class. I was going into AP calculus before I

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to add. Yeah, so I mean, we'll get started. at the top and we'll back things up and make sure you have a solid foundation to build on here we go 30 more

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30 more days will be amazing after that class I realize I don't have dance clothes or shoes like that Do I need and he said they should accompany something that doesn't show sweat parks?

You're going to want speakers and then for girls it's always important to have heels, which I haven't had a pair of heels for like 4 years and she was surprised. Kyle and Hailey went to the mall to buy me a pair of heels and dance heels have to be very specific, they have to have a structure around the ankle so you don't wobble all over the place and I'm probably the one of the most clumsy by nature that you have ever met. They made me walk and do a little turn. That was the first moment where I really felt vulnerable and was very afraid of what was to come and then came the first day of the training camp dance. camp so we just walk on the ground all we'll do is walk on the ground walking translates to every dance style so just walk to the beat while you walk to the beat seven eight walk one no it's not the beat .

When I came here I thought we would just start doing choreography, but I'm realizing that we have to do the foundation of everything and that's actually what makes me feel more self-conscious. Wow, oh my gosh, okay, something. In that class I realized that I don't make eye contact with anyone and I'm an actor. I'm going to stand on the other side. I want you to make eye contact with me all the time and wah, but walking around felt like Making eye contact with confidence really helps and then the moment I had to keep adding things, it's like a mental freeze that happens again.

Now what I want you to do is give me a walk, a walk, a triple step and a walk. walk and a triple step, well, after your triple step, I want you to open me with a snap, so I want you from right to left and from right to left and snap now, I want to try to make a turn, but turn, let's go right, left and right. left now right left and right left now yes and then no I can't believe how many body twists we did today just body twist after body twist that's the move that makes me most uncomfortable because it's the most sexual and supposed to be the most fluid. and that's what I don't feel good about now you're going to take your right hand you're going to run it down your body okay don't be afraid to touch yourself it's your body it's like my body okay step back onto your left face like this and turn the body.

There was a really cool moment in that class where Kyle realized he was super freaking out and getting into my head, he was like, you know what? Let's put on some music. I'll show you a game we all play called I Think It's Like Blocks or something. I call it rhythms, so we basically start with a rhythm and then we tell them how to modify it. Haley would start dancing to the beat and then he would say okay now do it with your eyes closed and then he would say now do it on your back and it gets more and more ridiculous and you start having fun and it's just about feeling the music and it has nothing to do with it. with all the other stuff and a wink to everyone five six seven eight and wait well that made me feel a lot better at the end of it I thought oh I just have to have fun, that's what today will be about Seeing where it is and that it has a long way to go go around I want her to find out what's sexy to her like it's not the same definition for everyone so I just wanted to be confident because she's such a sweet girl it breaks my heart when people don't I don't have the confidence to do what I want they want to do.

If I was going to make a routine at the end of 30 days for all my colleagues, I would have to find a routine and we would have to start learning it quickly. so we looked up all these songs and finally one day when it was just me and Kyle we found this Jojo song from 2015 called High Heels, as soon as the drum hit he was like, "This is the sexy song I thought I was going to do." ". like a hip hop dance routine and then Kyle drags his chair to the middle of the dance floor and says, "You're going to do this song in heels and it's going to be like Flashdance style." After the first class, Kyle said he needed something more basic. work and one of the best things I can do for that is ballet so I took a ballet class with Melissa Sandvik who is a professional dancer who was on So You Think You Can Dance and ballet was very difficult okay , so we'll start with the basics, the main thing about ballet is your posture, you stretch your legs completely and stand as tall as possible and find the correct alignment all the way, and the most flattering lines and shapes of your body, there You have, that's good, that was the best. about the guy I've had, it's about making your body beautiful and your lines beautiful and that was really hard for me because I was already thinking okay, let's go all the way sexy, they're a safe path and now we were in a ballet class where it's all about grace and elegance and being beautiful and boy, am I none of those things?

So I was just on the routine schedule every day. I would come in and work with Kyle and Emma for an hour learning. It was part of the routine and I had to do things hundreds of times, my knees in the first week were purple because I had to do salat work on the floor and every time I got down on the floor my knees had to hit the floor very hard. and I don't know how dancers do what they do to their bodies, today it hurts like my shoulders hurt, my knees are killing me, that weird little kick we were doing really hurt the back of my knee and then today .

We're supposed to do everything in heels, so part of me is really excited because I'm having so much fun learning these things that I didn't think I could do and the other part of me. it's like i had no energy today the first day walking in heels it was like walking like a t-rex you're walking with bad knees and it beat you like that my life started to feel like a rock mount which is really cool to see on video but It's a pain in the ass in real life and every day I would have liked a little triumph where I said yes, I nailed this move and then Kyle would teach me a new move and I would just watch it.

Like I can't do this, I can't do this and then I would go back into my whole mental game. I feel like I've gotten worse and I think part of that is that now I'm just in my head about it and the moves are It's not new anymore and the novelty has worn off and now I'm just worried about all these photos and doing the right moves and it's starting to get into my head, which is when it looks the worst and I have to wear heels now, which is just not a comfortable thing for me.

Style had kept teasing me that there would be a special celebrity guest that would come and help us and I had no idea who it was and for weeks everyone around me had been mentioning and I almost missed who it was, okay I have an amazing one of my very good Julianne, but I love her energy and I love her gifts and how cheerful she is, but she is one of the best dancers in the industry, girls kicking. but listen, I feel like I'm on Dancing with the Stars, damn, let's see what you got right, you can see that ready, here we go, I performed for her the worst thing I've ever performed in my life, I completely lost all intent. completely scared and I was just trying not to mess up the moves and it was so bad obviously you have this part down yeah and then from here down yeah something is missing here yeah the boobs so how do I feel like you're ? what you're doing, you're just lifting your leg and you're walking, but I want you to feel my back for a second, uh, she made me feel her back and feel exactly how much of the dance is moving your whole body and your back so that your core is guiding, it really made a big difference.

Yes, yes, did you see your whole body moving, wasn't it just your limbs that were moving? One thing Julianne and Kyle kept saying was that she needed to be in this character and feel comfortable. feeling my body, so one thing I did was go home, I put on some music and just danced, so I thought I'd come home tonight. I also danced a little for fun, to my favorite songs and just did some body movements, just moved. all the things that make me uncomfortable and I really get into it and move my shoulders and just try to feel sexier, which is a weird thing to say because it's something I never think about or try to do on purpose and then this magical moment.

It happened where I started to feel very happy and I stopped worrying about the why or the how and there was no routine and then I would look in the mirror and think: I look good, I look sexy, this is crazy, I think it was a point. of inflection. For me, emotionally, just dancing alone for no one else, no routine and feeling sexy, so we just broke up with Ashley. She is fine. I'm actually very impressed. They think she's growing and I think she's trying like she is now. When there's something she can't do, she says no, let's keep it and I'll find out.

She's correcting herself, she's still a little uncomfortable with it, but I think that's what makes her great. Then it was a week and I got sick, this is the weekend for the presentation. I was supposed to meet with MN Kyle this morning to do the presentation, but I'm... my body is exhausted, so I'm going to spend the day just looking at old footage. and trying to see what I did wrong and what I can do better and hopefully be better this week. I'm so impressed I want to cry because she's doing so well since that first rehearsal, good lord, when she couldn't. change from kicking ball she couldn't walk she didn't have heels let alone walk in them and now she's doing a full dance routine in heels and she looks amazing like she's so happy about what I like the most watching her do it is just movement in general, she uses her whole body, now you can tell she's enjoying it because before she used to get so frustrated by everything and now she really feels comfortable with herself, like those head whips she does and says.

Smiling and makes me very happy. I've been working with Ashley all this month. Today we took a video at the beginning of rehearsal and she watched herself on video and saw herself doing the floor moves and the walks with her. hands and her hair like she looked so confident on camera and it was almost like I didn't think it was her and I didn't think I could do that at the beginning of this process so today is my first day dancing with Ashley and if I don't They had said that she was going through her process and this transformation that she would have never known.

It really looks like she's taken a couple of healing classes and is kicking, but you showed me. I woke up this morning for like an hour and it's half an hour before my alarm goes off so I'm panicking. I'm wearing a suit, my entire back is exposed. I'm very proud of myself. I'm veryexcited. I can't believe I'm so committed to this. I think just by seeing me. Heels will be stunning for most of the office once they like floor work. I think people won't know what to do with themselves. I want Kyle to like cry a little.

That's really like I've seen all of this. I just want to feel like a badass when the song ends and the signal light goes off. I want to be like I killed that and left everything on the ground. Oh, make noise, I like it. It's when it gets loud, I think the moment they came the lights dimmed, the smoke lit and the first blow hit, I just did it, these pictures of these on me again, I know I was wrong but I didn't have you want because It was like, I feel like I did it I can't believe I did it It was so good Oh, like you were so like, let's go to class and the performance was amazing, it was really cool to have all my coworkers there and really have it.

I did it out of pure will and my body was no joke and I had fun and had the best time. The best thing about this whole experience is that the version of me that was sexy in the end was me the whole time, just being confident in who I am, my favorite part is when she hit the floor with her couch, sorry that didn't occur to me a better way to say it was great it really shook me to the couch so I think everyone just universally couch doubt there I don't know if that's the right word I should use come on couch couch okay you