Chapter 20: Moves 1
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The next day, Daeho woke up feeling sick, but nothing to the point of fever or throat pain. He just felt sluggish and heavy. Once again nothing he could do.
He went for his morning workout and once again he heard the notification of +1 body. Knowing you are improving is a joy of the world.
The day began well, he went to eat and once more saw the instructor dancing but this time at 10 AM, and he tried to absorb everything he saw.
And he realized that for each powerful move the teacher did a gentle move first, this is an easy thing to figure out, but the difference is in how the instructor applied his moves, the flexibility was no joke, and to apply the power on the moves he needed to control his body momentum something the instructor had mastered, his body was way too natural while doing the dance moves, he didn't worry he would mess up on the dance but was giving his attention to his facial expressions.
The instructor did the dance as if it was the second nature of his. With enough understanding, Daeho could figure everything out bit by bit, one step at a time.
So Dae-ho spent the rest of the day on the same training dance he had been yesterday.
Dance, record, mess up repeat. Dance, dance, dance. After messing up he would begin from the beginning. He even began to set a tiempo for the moves and just went with his tiempo.
''1'' He said and took a step forward while stretching his arm out. ''2'' He would stop and lift one hand up.''3'' and he brought his hand down a to the level of his throat and stopped there and his body would beat until the hand stopped. Simple and difficult at the same time.
The control on the body just had to be there, and he began seeing obvious improvement. The problem he had been having yesterday was that he wasn't feeling the music.
The music commanded and he should just move and express it with the choreography. Yesterday he only cared about the choreography and messed himself up forgetting about the beat.
It is about the tiempo the music moves at. Each song has different styles, but mostly to bring these regulated body control and hard and aggressive movements had the help of a pace of their own. Once you know at what pace the song is, you develop the tiempo for yourself. It didn't mean he was dancing as the instructor but it helped him to move on the same pace as the song. Then once you get that figured you bring it and mix everything up.
This was Daeho's idea.
5 Days went by with him just repeating and analyzing himself and his mistakes. He brought himself to it and he wanted to achieve it.
He had managed to get himself in pace, and he began improving quickly. Nothing related to items or anything just his raw talent. He felt himself loosening up and in these days Dance stat had gone up by +4. It was a reward for his work.
Totally forgetting about almost everything he kept going to his routine.
His only difficulty now was showing and expressing it with the body now. Everything was in place, the pace he figured to himself was there too. But just knowing the moves and doing them is a thing and performing it is another.
When you do the moves you tend to do the moves in a relaxed way, just so the body starts to make them once he thinks about them in a natural way, he was not out of the world in this but in a passable way.
Performing was mixing up everything. Your facial expression and body synch in order to bring impact to the viewer. You need to charm them with the body movement and drown them with your expression.
And in performing you had to change many things, and bring up every ounce of confidence to it. It was basic body language in a way, just in a way more expressive and unorthodox way.
Daeho drank a couple of mouthfuls of water and decided to repeat again as if performing.
But he heard someone knock on the door. Daeho placed the mask back on and went to open the door, he hoped it was his rigid agent Sangmi who came to visit him.
But to his disappointment, it wasn't his rigid agent but a face he was too familiar with.
Daeho sighed while looking at this face, but was polite and nodded and greeted the person. ''Hello, Dongsuk.''
The cute pink haired man just began pointing hearing his word.'' Hey!! Dae how many times do I have to tell you to call me Oli?''
Oliver had been proactive in trying to befriend Daeho and although they only met once in the park because Daeho was feeling a little sick and went later than normal, Oliver didn't let the opportunity escape and tried to talk to Daeho.
Do you know that clingy guy that would throw random topics at you? That is Oliver. Since Daeho went to see the instructor dance every day and Oliver had done the same, it brought a perfect opportunity for Oliver and he grasped it not leaving Daeho to go.
Daeho didn't bother much with him in the beginning, it was like a puppy trying to get his attention while jumping around you, it was sort of cute. But once he had discovered his training room, he would come and visit him 2 to 3 times in one day.
To Daeho it was a bother but for him who was constantly stressing himself with the choreography, these breaks would help him relax.
Oliver just went inside and ran toward Nisha. The poor kitten tried to run but was caught and the pink haired man just began cuddling the poor thing. She began looking at Daeho with pitiful eyes, and as the caring father, he is to his cat he went to save her.
Bringing a wave of nagging from Oliver about how he was too protective and how he should let him pet Nisha since he wasn't a bad person. In the middle of all this 2 other characters joined in.
That being Jun and Allan, they were Korean but liked to use those names and Daeho hadn't bothered to know the real names anyway. They tagged along with the cute pinky who looked at Nisha with an intense gaze.
And they had grown comfortable in Daeho's presence. It was a natural thing since Daeho spoke when he wanted to speak and like Jun tried ignoring Oliver. This made it seem like they knew each other for a couple of months when it wasn't the case.
''Hello sorry for the intrusion, we bought some lunch for you mister hard work.'' Said Allan while waving the plastic bags he had in his hands with a smile.
Jun just went with a short greeting and locked eyes with Daeho.
Maybe of the 3 of them, the one that freaked him the most out was Jun. The dude would look at him dead in the eyes when he had the opportunity to.
Daeho began wondering if Jun swung that way, but this thought was a thing that made him shiver. He didn't have any issue with that type of thing or befriending someone with that orientation but the matter is completely different once the person the guy liked is you. A full straight man.
But he decided to just ignore him as he did to Oliver. Allan, on the other hand, was an outgoing guy and was like an angel in Daeho's view. Why? because Allan was the one who kept up with Oliver's energy, besides Allan had serious social skills. But well he would normally get pretty heated with Oliver and not hold back on his words towards the same.
A peculiar group of 3 that were here but it was quite relaxing, slashing out how weird two of them were. Daeho was slightly awkward and liked his corner but he wouldn't say no to people who came with goodwill. Besides living alone and not making friends was out of question. He wasn't an emo who dreamed of solitude and revenge or some dark theme out there.
Daeho knew just how much of a social animal the human being was and knew that a human being alone would probably eat himself from inside, in the sense of mental health, he would begin to auto destruct and grow depression and other things. Everyone needed to communicate or even to see people. Even if some deny it. Daeho wasn't delusional enough to think he could manage everything by himself so this goofy trio was welcome, as long as they didn't step the boundaries.
They even managed to figure out a way for Daeho to eat together with them.
A suggestion of Oliver that wanted to eat with him and suggested for him to eat with his back facing them. Daeho believed that one of the trio would try to sneak a look but they were true to their words and although curious they never crossed that boundary. This showed how respectful and mindful the trio was.
It was refreshing to have them for a little while. So Daeho just smiled and ate the meal while facing the opposite direction of the trio. From time to time Oliver would ask him questions and talk about the choreography and he would speak, a major part of his improvement in dancing was a credit to the trio majorly Jun who was a really good dancer.
Daeho would implement the tips they gave him and in the middle of the 4 surprisingly or not Daeho was the youngest and with fewer years of training, he obviously had 1 and a couple of months in total of history in the industry, while Jun was going to turn 20 in December, and had 8 years of trainee experience about to turn 8 in February as he said, Allan was 21 and would turn 22 next year, and had 6 years of trainee time and surprisingly Oliver who looked like a little 15 year old actually was older than Daeho with a surprising 19 years of age and 4 years of trainee time.
This showed just how much of veterans they were in the area, and most of their advices were helpful. It just showed how hard the idol industry was. Surprisingly enough these 3 were scouted for Shining a year ago. They didn't leave despite all the trouble the company faced.
'These 3 are too good people, and in the middle of people trying to drag them down they retained that personality, it is commendable.' Daeho praised them silently or he praised what they showed him so far.
That day they had decided to dance together and help each other in their performance.
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