STEEZY Podcast

STEEZY Podcast

Exploring the dancer experience through the unique lens of world-renowned choreographers, freestylers, and cultural pioneers. In the STEEZY Podcast, your host Clay Boonthanakit talks with the top dancers to demystify what it takes to be a dance professional or hobbyist, and help you become the dancer you've always wanted to be... through compelling stories, in-depth interviews, and lots of laughs 😌🕺 STEEZY Studio is the #1 dance app, with thousands of online dance classes taught by the world’s top instructors. Sign up now for a 7-Day free trial here → https://steezy.co/podcastgeneral

Episodes

August 17, 2023 48 mins

Tobias Ellehammer gives us insight into what it's like training as a theater performer/dancer in Denmark, his teaching ideology, owning his shyness and nerdiness, and what it's like collaborating on creative with musical artists!

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The Future Kingz is a multifaceted dance crew, music group, and community culture shifter. The crew has been featured on America’s Got Talent Season 13, The Ellen Show, Bears vs Rams halftime show, danced with artists like Chance The Rapper, Billie Eilish, DaBaby, and many more. In this episode, we learn about how the leaders, Zaya Sosho & Renzell Roque, have broken music and dance records, danced with the biggest artists in th...

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Jaja Vaňková is one of the most talented, prolific dancers in the world. She won America's Best Dance Crew with IaMmE, was in the Top 2 of So You Think You Can Dance season 12, has danced in and worked with Step Up (the movie), Cirque Du Soleil, Nike, Puma, Justin Bieber, and so much more.

In this episode we talk about the origin of the word "robot," how Jaja had $9000 taken from her in Russia, her difficult journey of getting a wo...

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In Part 2 of the Ian Eastwood STEEZY Podcast episode (listen to Pt. 1 if you haven't yet), Ian and Clay talk about how being a "YouTube choreographer" used to parallel being a "TikTok Dancer" and how Ian chose to embrace that element of his dance career. We also learn about his first job as a dancer in Los Angeles in all of it's weirdness and pretentiousness, and his #1 piece of advice on how to grow as a dancer.

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Part 1 of the Ian Eastwood STEEZY Podcast episode (We had so much to talk about we needed two whole episodes for it). Ian, who is an absolutely iconic dancer who has worked with artists like Childish Gambino, Justin Bieber, Taemin, EXO, and been featured on a variety of television programming... is here to spill his story on how he became the dancer he is today. We talk about the way his parents created an innovative way for Ian to...

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Carlo Darang is the director of a few dance crews, including Choreo Cookies, one of the most world-renowned dance crews... but he's also the chillest guy you'll ever meet. In this episode, we chat about the pressures of taking over as a director for Choreo Cookies, video games getting in the way of dance, what we'd do in a zombie apocalypse, how Carlo fell in love being a dance teacher and mentor, and much more!

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We go DEEP in this episode. Makenzie and Clay talk about starting your dance training in a studio and learning how to branch out and grow after, imposter syndrome,  confronting fears, and much more! Take online dance classes on STEEZY here → https://steezy.co/podcastgeneral

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September 13, 2022 7 mins

In this video podcast, we dissect why I believe Bruno Mars is one of the greatest entertainers of our generation, but with a focus on his dancing. This is a special episode that is not our standard podcast format! Make sure you WATCH this one, because listening won't do it justice ❤️

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Aliya talks about starting as a waitress and dance assistant, "The Power Of Now" by Eckhart Tolle, memorizing 40 lines of Hamlet, and becoming the world-renowned dancer and business person that she is today.

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Ben Chung is a prolific artist who started his dance journey before the age of social media, but has seamlessly integrated and thrived within that space while being a part of legendary dance crews like the Jabbawockeez & Kinjaz

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Danyel Moulton and I talk about micheladas, the toxic environment in gymnastics, Danyel's iconic back breaking move, and leading the first adult American dance crew to make it to the World Finals at Hip Hop International

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Dock Lock is a world traveling Lite Feet instructor who also happens to be a full time bank worker in Florida. In this episode we talk about how to balance dance and work, how Dock went from being a STEEZY user to STEEZY instructor, and of course what Lite Feet is and where to engage with the culture!

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Ade Willis has danced with Billie Eilish, BTS, Chance The Rapper, and dozens more artists... but what he is most passionate about is his community, not the spotlight. In this episode we dig into why such a successful dancer like Adé prefers to remain more private and how he stays sane in such a demanding industry.

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Nick Joseph has choreographed for some of the world's most renowned Korean music artists and groups such as BTS, TXT, Enhypen, Super M, and more. It's wild to think that Nick didn't even want to be a choreographer at first, he just wanted to learn from the dancers he looked up to! 

If you want to take online dance classes from Nick, click this link → https://steezy.co/podcast3nickaudio

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So You Think You Can Dance choreographer Phillip Chbeeb talks about his time on the show, how to find your own dance style, and balancing your passions and hobbies with dance.

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In our very first episode of the STEEZY podcast, we chat with TikTok influencer & dancer Jaeden Gomez about creating viral TikTok dances, the misconceptions about being a dance influencer, Lizzo doing her dance at the Met Gala, and much more! 

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