All language subtitles for Dance Life (2024) - S1E02 (Taking The Lead)

[indistinct chatter]

[Cassie] You've got ten seconds. Let's go!

[indistinct chatter continues]

[Cassie] From the top, here we go.

Spread out, it's four slow, eight quick.
Let's do it!

[upbeat music plays]

One!

[bass drops]

And out and up, go.

[groans]

And double. [groans]

I think I put my shoulder out.

Single strut. It's all right, keep going.

Double.

Double. Keep going!

[upbeat music continues]

[moans] And forward.

I can't feel my arm.

Most people think the dance world is
pretty and sequinned,

and like a fun hobby.

It… That's not what it is.

[Stephen] Sell it!

[Lucas] It's injuries and blood
and ripped apart feet.

I've broken my foot, my leg.
I've torn some ligaments in my knees.

It's physically and mentally and
emotionally demanding.

There's a lot of dancers that have
injuries that you don't know about.

We love it so much,
we're gonna dance on it.

If you wanna be in the industry,
there aren't any excuses.

Up, three!

And down, go.

[music stops]

[solitary beat]

[indistinct chatter]

[Michael] All right, come on in, please.

[indistinct chatter continues]

[Emily] I don't want to be at the front.

[Michael clears throat]

When it comes to grading, we only have a
certain amount of spots for each class.

Um, and we have 30 places
for the advanced top one class.

All right? So for the first class we have:

Abby Chappell,

Arabella Meleo,

Archer Howland-Rose,

Ava Couston,

Brooke Beaven,

Conor Bann-Murray,

Curie Kim,

Daniel Cooke,

Emily Smith,

Eva Baonza,

Max Ostler,

Max Simmons,

Tiana Vassallo,

Tom Young.

Okay? Congratulations.

[applause]

Thank God. [nervous laughter]

That's all I was just hoping for.

To prove myself to Cassie.

And just being called out, it really meant
a lot, because it showed that…

she not only cared for me,
but saw potential in me.

[Michael] Just because you get a place
in this top one class

does not mean that you
get to hold onto that spot.

You need to work hard,
cause there are people right on your tail

who would happily be, um,
ready and willing to replace.

[Erin] I'm sorry, that's fucked.

[Kim] In the grading I got into Jazz two.

There's a lot of people saying, like…

there's no need to be stressed about it,

and there isn't any reason for me to be
stressed about it, but…

I said to Cassie, I was like, I don't know
why I'm crying, I'm sorry.

Um, I just care, do you know what I mean?

I just want it… bad, so…

That's why I'm obviously
having a meltdown about it.

But, yeah… That is why I look upset,
because I am upset.

- Breathe.
- I was just so stressed…

Everyone I feel like, is like…

- Yeah!
- Energy, at the drop of a hat

- someone's gonna cry.
- Yeah

- Like I just feel like, everyone…
- Well…

- Will cry. Like…
- Breathe, breathe.

[Erin] When I found out
that I was in Jazz two,

I was like, what the fuck is going on?

Like, it was like anger, upset.

Like, it's not like, I wasn't sad like
someone had died.

I was more like sad, like, disappointed,

and like, you know when like,
when someone, like, is put in jail

for, like, a crime,
like they didn't commit.

Like, that sad.

[indistinct chatter]

[Cassie] Hurry up, guys!

[indistinct chatter]

Here we go.

Take a deep breath, let's go.

[Madeaux: "Mon Cher" playing]

Arabella, this way, this way. Shoo, shoom.

Foom.

[Cassie] One, three, hut, hut!

C'mon, guys! It's a mess.

Whoa, whoa.

[music fades]

Guys…

Get up!

Now I know this is like, really hard,

but that is the whole point.

Yeah. We're not at
Debbie's Dance School anymore.

C'mon. Work hard.

If you don't, I will swap you out
with someone else.

Yes?

[dance music plays]

[bass drops]

[beat fades]

Kim. A lot of people, like, think that
she's like, not a good dancer,

and think that she's just pretty.

But, she actually like, could back it
up with her dancing as well.

Like, a lot of people just underestimate,

but she, but she actually is
a really good dancer.

And then obviously we were put into,
like, both into Jazz two,

so we just like, really need to step up.

[Kim] My relationship with Erin…
Yeah, I feel like we're…

I don't know what she would think,
but I'd probably say we're kind of close.

Um, we talk a lot about…

not other people,
but we talk a lot about things,

just in general, and…

Yeah, I've got a good bond with her,
I like that woman, she's very funny.

And I like how she's so honest.

I feel like people misinterpret me and
just often describe me as like, a bitch.

So many people
when they speak to me, they're like,

oh my god, I thought you were so scary,

but like, I feel like
that's your fault for not…

getting to know me
than the other way round,

because I'm not gonna change and…
Wow they look so good,

um, and make an effort
when I'm happy with the way I am.

- How you doin'?
- I'm good, how are you?

Good.

I just wanna get some
feedback on the grading, because…

um, I didn't hear anything back
when we were in the auditions.

Did you, um, feel that class
was fair for you to be put in or…?

Well…

- Yes and no, because…
- Yeah.

when you were saying, like, people who are
comfortable with the Brent Street style,

I was like, well, I kinda have been here.

My emotions are really easy to read,
I would say, like,

and I don't have to,
like, put them like, on.

I think it's very suited for a performer.

People would probably describe me,
like, very loud.

I think they would say they're scared
they don't know what I'm gonna say.

A lot of people
think I'm funny, but I am. [chuckles]

[Michael] I just posted a link
on your wall, and it's a survey.

It's so we can feel where you're at and
what we want to do from here on in,

slash, how we can make it better.

[Erin] Is it anonymous?

[Michael] Yeah.

[all laugh]

When I've seen you,
even on the grading for me,

read to me a little lazy, to be fair.

- Really?
- Yes.

That's how it came across to me,
and I was like…

I didn't know if I thought, like, the
advanced class was a little expected.

I think as well, it's a challenge for you,

and I'm curious to see
if you will step up,

- Yeah, yeah.
- to be, to be honest.

Do you think you would?

Well, I hope… I want to.

- Like, that's my aim, yeah.
- Okay, great.

[upbeat music plays]

[Cassie] You've gotta know this choreo,
like, inside out and back to front.

No mistakes, here we go.

Five, six, seven, eight.

[Cobrah: "Debut" playing]

[music stops]

Arabella?

- What was it?
- Oh, I just…

- slipped.
- Slipped?

[Cassie] Imagine that was, like, on stage.

What would you do?
You'd keep going, you gotta to fake it.

What I'm drawn to about
performing arts is, it's entertainment.

You know, I'm on show.

[Cassie] You cannot crack
when the pressures up, let's go.

[Arabella] Yes, it's tiring,
it's stressful, it's hard.

Sometimes I feel like quitting
and setting the building on fire,

but it's what I love.

I love feeling like
I want to set the building on fire.

[Cassie] Five, six, seven, eight!

Go one, two, and three and four,

and five and six, and seven and eight,

and one and two, and three and four,

and five and six, go seven and stop!

Hut, two, three, four,

and five and six, and seven and eight.

Go breathe, two, go three and four,

five and six, and seven, and hut, hut,

boom, and a two and a three, and a four!

Five, six, seven, eight, bud-up!

Hey! Ahhh.

[clapping]

[synth music plays]

[Arabella singing operatically]

This is my Brent Street triple threat.

Senior 2020.

One award. It's my greatest accolade.

It's not quite an Oscar, yet.

But, it will be one day.

And, um, I just thought it'd be
a little bit funny if I put it here.

Like, no disrespect

or anything, I just thought
it would be funny when people walk in

and they see a trophy on a toilet.

We do specialise in dance,
but it is a performing arts space.

So, we teach people to be triple threats.

Which means they can sing,
they can dance, they can act.

They can do it all.

[Arabella] With commercial dance
and just the dance world,

it's very select and…

you've gotta be one of the lucky ones
to really get your place in that world.

But with musical theatre,
there's so many different

routes and roads you could go down.

I'd like to be the star of the show.

When you get selected for a main role

you… it's…

It's like when you're trying, you
want to laugh so hard,

but you have to hold it in.

So, it's just this feeling
of where you just wanna go…

[soft squeal] And you just wanna
scream and shout, and like, whoo!

But, you need to still be professional,
and like, yep that's cool, thank you.

So grateful for this opportunity.

You know what I mean?

Ooh, it's torrential.

Help!

I feel like I'm in Mary Poppins,
being blown away.

Wait. With my suitcase.

[chuckles]

[Lucas] Across all the genres at
Brent Street, not all of them are graded.

We grade specific genres
based on technical ability,

and other ones are a mix
of all different abilities in there,

because it's the best way to learn.

- [students singing scales]
- [piano playing]

[Ben] Back down.

My singing voice is not a singing voice.

It's… [stammers] I just don't sing.

But, I know that I need
to be able to sing to be a singer, so…

I try and work on it.

You are a good singer,
I've heard you sing.

No, you've heard me sing two years ago,
and you haven't heard it

- recently.
- I have heard you sing.

Recently… ish.

See, it's people like this
making false claims

- that freaks me out.
- People like this?

I'm not saying that you're a good singer.

- Thank you.
- I'm just standing here silently.

I'm saying that you can sing.

Like, you, maybe you're not as…

- Good as I used to be?
- Yeah, see now…

- Now she's telling the truth.
- The truth.

[all chuckle]

[students doing breathing exercises]

[Ben] Good…

[Archer] People who are here have been
dancing their whole lives

and so it's just like,
they're used to that,

but singing is so different
and so vulnerable,

and so outside of their comfort zone
that I feel like they,

they freak out a bit.

[indistinct chatter]

[Ben] Good morning everyone.

- Good morning, Ben.
- Hi.

So…

[clears throat]

Um, great. A couple of things
before we get started.

This term we're focusing
on solo repertoire.

So, you'll be singing on your own,
in front of each other.

[Max S] I care a lot
about what people think.

People think I don't, but…

I'm very insecure in that way, like,
people just don't see it.

Most people think Max is,
like, he doesn't give a shit, he's like…

he's so sure of himself, but like,
I see his vulnerable side.

Deep down he, he does have
a really pure and like, strong heart.

[Max S] Ava, really cute, love it.

I feel like people think I can sing
really high, because

I have a really
high pitch voice when I speak.

- But, like, I…
- You don't really.

No, it's like whiny high.

- Yeah.
- It's like bitchy high, you know.

- But like, when I…
- It's still got, like, a low bass to it.

Like, there's still like a…

- When I sing, like my range…
- My ear's so itchy.

I probably have the worst range
out of all the boys.

[both doing scales]

- So am I allowed to be nervous?
- Yeah.

But nerves are good.

Okay, babe. Nerves are not good when
you're singing, you need to be calm.

[shower running]

[Max S singing scales]

[Conor scoffs]

- Max. [chuckles]
- [Max S] Yes.

Last minute practice
for the singing assessment?

[Max S] What?

Last minute practice
for the singing assessment?

[Max S] Yes.

What a voice of an angel.

[Ben] Good morning everyone.

I'm treating it just like the audition.

So you're gonna come up,

you're going to tell me where you're
starting and stopping in your piece.

You'll introduce yourself to everyone,

your name, what you're singing,
who you're auditioning for,

and then we'll sing your piece.

All right, um, Arabella.

Do you wanna come up?

[piano notes play]

Okay, cool.

- [Arabella] Okay.
- [student] Whoo.

- [student] Yay, let's go.
- [student] Let's go.

[soft applause]

- [Arabella tests pitch]
- [Ben chuckles]

[Ben] Okay, are you ready?

[piano plays note]

♪ If they could ♪

♪ See me now, that little gang of mine ♪

♪ I'm eating fancy chow
And drinking fancy wine ♪

♪ I'd like those stumble bums
To see for a fact ♪

♪ The kind of top drawer
First rate chums I attract ♪

♪ All I can say is, wow
Will you look at where I am ♪

♪ Tonight I landed, Pow!
Right in a pot of jam ♪

♪ What a setup, holy cow ♪

♪ They'd never believe it
If my friends could see me ♪

♪ Now ♪♪

[cheering and applause]

[Ben] Great.

- [Ben] Well done.
- It was a bit yelly. It was a bit yelly.

- [Ben] Practice guys?
- [Max S] Yep.

It wasn't really singy, it was yelly.

I mean, I can't judge because I have
no idea what I'm fucking doing.

- Nah, I yelled.
- [Ben] Max Simmons.

[audience] Yeah!

Hi, I just…

[indistinct chatter]

[Ben] All right, what are you singing?

Um, sorry, just need a second.

[Ben] Okay, you're right.

Um…

Sorry, I just get nervous, it's fine.

- [Ben] Deep breaths, through your nose.
- Yep.

Um…

- Just wait, just need a second.
- [Ben] Yeah, it's okay.

Um…

Just can't, all right.

- [Ben] So?
- Um…

I'm singing "Neverland",
from Finding Neverland.

[Ben] Cool.

[audience encouragement]

All right, so remember.

- Yep. Yep.
- Forward placement

Every thing’s really forward.

- Great, stand on the dot.
- Mm-hm.

[Ben] Introduce yourself.

- [soft claps and cheers]
- [Ben] All right?

- Yep.
- [piano plays]

♪ Whenever I was frightened ♪

♪ If I ever felt alone ♪

♪ I turned to the night sky ♪

♪ And a star I call my own ♪

♪ Somewhere I could run to ♪

♪ Just across the Milky Way ♪

♪ If you like I could take you ♪

♪ It's just a lightyear and a day ♪

♪ Every wish is our command ♪

♪ When we find ourselves in never ♪

♪ Neverland ♪♪

[crowd cheers and applauds]

I had to hold back the tears.

- I was fully about to cry.
- That was really good.

- You looked like you were about to cry.
- I was about to cry.

[Conor] But, Max, that was really good.

- Why were you about to cry?
- I don't know.

[keys jingling]

[Conor] These stairs…

[Max S] Okay, I'm putting the oven on.

[Conor] I need a pee.

Me, Max, we started, like,
talking on Snapchat,

and I, kind of like, had
a little crush on him.

No one knew about it,
and then, yeah, we just kind of…

naturally came together,
and became boyfriends.

It's kind of hard, because, like, we were
competing against each other in a way.

Like, he was my competition,
not in, like, an unhealthy way, but like…

I was obviously not as good
as him when I first came,

so like, he was pushing me
to be my best.

- Should I do a little jumper?
- …and keys.

What about, do you have a zip jumper?

- Yeah, I do.
- Like that.

Where's that black version of that?

Oh, we're gonna twin. That's kind of cute.

It's there.

[Max S] Like, my dream after Full Time,
like, for both of us is

both of us to, like,
get a contract straight away,

but obviously that's very rare.

But you know what would even be better?
Like, a musical or just a gig or anything,

that could be, like,
a movie or anything, but we're in it

- [unison] together!
- [Conor] Yeah.

Well, I hope the same for me as you, like

there's nothing I, that I wish for
myself that I don't wish for you,

- if you know what I mean?
- Yeah.

Dance, and the people at dance,
brings out…

that fun, energetic, like,
happy side of me, like,

I don't think I'd be as confident,
I think I'd be a bit more shy

and reserved, and I wouldn't be as like…

out there and comfortable
with who I am without dance.

Hey, every time I get home from work
I just want to go to bed.

[yawning] I wanna go to bed right now.

Mm.

[Conor] We have a
really good day tomorrow.

[indistinct chatter]

[student 1] …flowers to Mark

[student 2] Ooh, yeah, we've got
Marky Mark, where's Marky Mark's card?

[indistinct chatter]

- Hi! [laughs nervously]
- [Michael] Hi, Kimmy.

[Cassie] Take a seat.

[chair bangs]

Ooh, god, was that me?

So, why do you think you're here?

- I don't know.
- [laughter]

- I'm really scared, low key.
- No, don't be.

- Don't be?
- No, no, no, no.

How do you think you're going,
first of all?

I feel like it's really
hard to tell how I'm going, cause…

you said it the other day,
and like, I said it, um…

to someone else. 'Cause, like, I'm seeing
myself every day, I don't know

- if I'm improving or not.
- Mm.

I feel like I might be on the same level,
or if I'm getting,

- I don't know.
- Yep.

But…

Well, I would like to
move you up to Jazz One.

[Cassie] Because I think
you are killing it.

- How do you feel about that? Good?
- So excited. Yes, yes.

I'm so excited. Oh my gosh.

[Michael] So your hard work's paying off.

- [Cassie] Seriously, it is.
- Yeah. Okay.

- [Michael] But now we work even more.
- It, it… Oh, yeah.

And, like, I… I feel like
I really wanted that.

- Like, I wanted to be in that space.
- [Cassie] Yeah.

- So I can, like…
- [Michael] Totally.

- push myself even further, cause like…
- [Michael] Yeah. Yeah.

- Yeah, I don't know.
- [Michael] Yeah.

Everyone in there's insane,
so I'm like, I want to be like that.

- [Michael] Yeah.
- If you know what I mean.

Being around this,
like, the level of people here,

I just would've never have thought
I'd be compared to them.

Especially when, like,
within the first term I wasn't, like,

even put near them.

[Cassie] If you keep
working at the rate you are,

you could be one of the most
working commercial dancers.

- Yeah.
- So, it's, it's, it's there.

- Okay. Thank you.
- So it's up to you. Yeah?

Thank you, so much.

[Michael] Cool. All right,
keep working then.

[indistinct chatter]

[Lucas] This isn't, like, serious.

Like, everyone's looks like it's serious.

Um, no, we just wanted
to have a quick chat

through this Light the Way stuff.

Cause I know that not everyone
knows exactly what's going on.

Top Australian choreograph…
choreographers, agents, casting directors,

producers and teachers
will all be at the event,

as well as international guests.

All of those people are there
to watch you guys.

All the Full Time studios across Australia

have been invited
to do this major dance convention.

The organisers have asked us
to put on a ten minute group piece,

that really just shows
what Brent Street can do.

Cassie's a choreographer,
that's what she is in her core.

So it's important for her as well.

All of her peers
are going to be sitting there,

and she's nervous
to put her work in front of them.

I've like, put this creative together,
and my name's on it.

If you've been sitting down for an hour

and don't know the section
you've just learnt, I'm gonna be pissed.

[indistinct chatter]

I've broken the routine into parts.

Within each section,
I really wanna feature

someone that is
the strongest within that style.

Max Ostler, he's the perfect person
to open this whole thing.

Tiana has a little part.

Max Simmons, Conor,

will be featured heavily.

[Archer] The opportunity to be seen,
that's what got me really, like…

excited to, like, take part in it.

That's it so far, oh, Kim!

I will probably have to
work with Kim one on one,

to make sure that
she has that section… solid.

[Max S] If I don't have to move any prop,
'cause that's what will freak me out,

- [Max S] like when you move a prop.
- [Cassie] All right, girls. Outside.

Let's go. Boys.

[Archer] Cassie, do you
want me outside or in?

[Cassie] Um…

- You're gonna do male energy one time,
- So true.

- girl energy the other, so…
- Yeah, yeah.

- jump on in. Yes, exactly right.
- Let's raise the bar.

- [Max O] Maybe you do it like that.
- [Cassie] Ready?

[Cassie] Yeah.

- [Cassie whooshes] Oh, anyway.
- [Max O] You're what?

[Cassie] Five, I'm getting out,
I'm getting out of hand.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Go shoom, two…

[Student] That big?

Yeah. Okay.

Things that could go wrong
is definitely Max.

Either one, not getting
his feet on the top of the flats

and then like, crushing and falling,
or the girls not catching him on the back.

[Max O] Girls.

If someone's not thinking back there,

like, they honestly have
Max's life in their hands.

[Cassie] One, two…

[indistinct chatter]

[Cassie] I reckon…

[Max S] I reckon the first one
was honestly better.

- [Cassie] Yeah.
- [Conor] We could hold the door.

[Cassie] What, what happens,
what happens if like,

we get his feet to…

[stamps foot] to stand on it,
he stands and, like, falls back that way.

Oh, that, that, that, that!

If he, if he doesn't get caught
and he lands on his back,

God help me.

So, like, the girls have massive
pressure to make sure that that happens.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Just go up, two, and then walk it forward,

and then, so it's like…

[Marcus] Your arm should do that.

[Cassie] There, that's where it needs to
be, like, from there. See those arms?

That arm, that should be
the arm grip from the start.

[Michael] Max Ostler, obviously his
ability is better than other kids

within the space.

I worry that he kind of dulls himself
sometimes as a person

to not become a target of jealousy or…

or, um, people trying to pull him down.

[Max O] Anyone could do that.
It may not be the same as me,

it would be something different,

but I'm just as valuable
as everyone else in this group.

I just won't ever let myself get injured.

I will do whatever's needed
so that I don't let the team down.

[girls exclaim]

[birds chirping]

[Tiana] Is 25 fine?

[Carla] No, 21's probably
a bit cold, isn't it, Jamie?

[Tiana] 25!

[Carla] No, too hot.

I would describe her personality
as a perfectionist.

Very hard on herself.

If that makes sense.

Yeah, so…

Cassie says that as well.

Unless anyone's really
at Full Time every day,

you don't really understand
what the training consists of.

[soft music]

[Tiana] And it's very intense.

I think about how many people
I've seen, like, give up.

I don't know if anyone really
understands how badly I want it.

Even myself sometimes.

It's instilled into us,
you need to look good at all times.

But, I don't know,
just being in that building

I feel like there's a lot of pressure,

to not stuff it up.

[soft music continues]

I started in the back.
I was not good, I was terrible.

As a kid I was never the 'it' girl.

You know, down in the little group.

Like, nah, I was always
in the back corner.

I feel like I wasn't appreciated
for a human being,

because of where I was in a position.

Which is not right. [scoffs]

I knew whenever they did the placings

for a concert, cause she'd come back
and, and she'd be upset,

and I'd be like, "What's wrong now?"

"I'm at the back again",
and I'm like, "Well, try harder,

keep trying harder, keep practising,

keep doing what you know you've gotta do."

So… and she did it,
like, it's taken years.

It didn't happen overnight.

In year seven, I reckon that
she probably went to school…

A full day of school
would've happened for about a week,

'cause she was being bullied.

I think for me, when I said to Jamie

we need to take her out of there, was when
I found out that she was actually

sitting in the toilet
before the bell went, to go into class,

because the girls, who weren't just one or
two girls, like, I'm talking about

a group of 20 girls
sitting together and picking on her.

So she would sit in the toilet to hide
from these girls.

[Jamie] Yeah, girls were really mean,

I didn't realise how mean they could be
until we heard a phone call.

- [Jamie stammers]
- [Carla] Of girls ringing her.

Ringing her, telling her to kill herself.

That they didn't like her,
and you should go and kill yourself.

[Tiana] I was affected by it.

Obviously the anxiety got really bad,

I didn't go to school
for three terms of year seven.

I spent that term just stretching
and, like, training at home.

And, like, making, like,
fun little videos,

and like, this is how
you use your stretch products.

Hi guys, so it's me again, Tiana,
and today

I'm just, I'm just
gonna show you some exercises

- They're like… [gasp]
- [band snaps]

But, that actually helped me so much,
because when I came back

my legs were all of a sudden up here and
my split jumps were like this, and I could

dance all of a sudden, and…

then the person front, centre of every
routine starting talking to me,

and I was like…

this is very interesting
that this is how it works.

All of a sudden I had
so many more friends,

which is… interesting.

And I was getting better positions.

It's kinda like, the social, like,
hierarchy of…

the lines.

Everyone wants to be the star of the show,
that's why we're here.

But, um…

not having that was…

I think it makes it more exciting
that it happens now.

[birds chirping]

[blender whirring]

[Cassie] My life, kind of, revolves around
putting routines together 24/7, but…

I still have somewhat of a social life.

I am getting married this year.

Which is crazy.

I don't know, like,
I can't believe I'm getting married.

I mean, like, imagine being married to me.

[chuckles] I'm never home.

- [Paris] Hi, bubby. You look good.
- [Cassie] I'm excited. I'm so hurt.

I feel like you could go a thousand
different ways as a dancer.

Like, do you go costume and you go glitter
and sequins, or do you go plain?

I'm not a sequinsy kinda gal.

[Paris] I reckon like, I reckon
as a dancer you go opposite.

'Cause you, I would see sequin and
think, that's a dance costume.

- So you'd go…
- Yeah, well, I think that's what it is.

- Yeah.
- Like, I see glitz and glamour go,

- everyone will expect me to wear that.
- Yeah.

[Paris] Can we do a countdown?

[all laugh]

- Three, five, six…
- [all] …seven, eight.

[laughter, whooping]

[all exclaim]

[Cassie] Oh my god, I can't move.

- [laughter]
- [woman] On the step.

Can't walk in this one.

- [Paris] That is quite nice.
- [Kate] I like the boob tube, but.

- [Cassie] You do like the boob tube?
- [Kate] Yeah, yeah.

[Sophie] Oh my god, I love it.

So this can come off here.

[indistinct chatter]

You can, you can like jeté in it.

…whatever else you
want to do, pirouettes.

[laughter]

[Cassie] I wouldn't be
caught dead doing pirouettes.

[all laugh]

[all] Ooh!

[laughter]

[Maddy] That top though.

[woman] I feel like I wanna go this way,
turn to the… [chuckles]

- [Paris] Oh cool, I like the big…
- [all] Wow.

- [Cassie] I love this top.
- [Maddy] I love the top.

[soft music]

[sighs] Oh god, it's so hard.

- Such a commitment.
- [Maddy] They all do look good.

It's more of a commitment
than getting married.

[all laugh]

[Paris] Yeah, that is Cassie Bartho's
wedding right there.

- [woman] It's absolutely stunning.
- [Paris] Yep.

[Cassie] In our industry,
when things are happening,

it's so hard to put your life
and your career on pause.

For me personally,
my career is my priority.

[upbeat music]

[Lucas] All right, let's do it.
I want no bags, no phones.

- [Jasmin] Okay.
- [Lucas] No bad attitudes.

Oh, yeah.

Being seen, and being able to be in a room
in front of a choreographer is rare.

For this Light the Way that's coming up,
they're gonna be in a space where

all of these choreographers
are gonna be there.

[Lucas] No phones, no food. What's this?

Coffee.

- Please?
- No, get out!

Now, it's a scary thing. This is happening
early in their Full Time year.

It's not when they've finished training,
it's after one term of training.

So…

They're not necessarily ready for it.

One, two, three, four,
five, six, and seven, and…

You need to go… [inhales]

Hut, breathe.

Breathe, hit. Five, six, seven, go!

One, two, three, four, star dropkick…

Boom, hut. [stamps]

I want your feet to come out of nowhere.

[Cassie] The group piece
is our main focus for Light the Way.

But the hardest thing
is keeping the audience

from curtain up to that final position.

They need to be seating at the edge
of their seats being like, I want more.

Ten minutes should feel like two.

The beginning of the
routine needs a strong start

and I'm relying on the male energy
in the room to do this for us.

After that, the girls take the stage,
and there are so many more girls,

so they kind of flood the stage.

The only way to make this pop
is through super intricate choreography,

formations and levels.

As we build to the finale
we need a bit of a lift of energy.

I'm going to get our hip-hop choreographer
to put this together.

He knows all the best hip-hop dances.

[beat booms]

When you're talking about
having a mass of dancers,

and like, a big group of dancers, like,

the number one thing you wanna get
across is this feeling of like, unity

and like, an army like,
like, all together.

[Cassie] Fivey and a sixy,
and a seven and a eight.

There we go.

One, two, three, four.
Fivey and a sixy, and a seven and a eight.

One thing goes wrong,
one person makes the wrong move,

or doesn't get something on, on time,

then that next person's affected, and then
that carries over to the next person,

to the next person,
to the next person. It's a disaster.

[Cassie] And boom, hand, up, down,

up, down, down.

This…

is not what I want.

[Stephen] You want every single person
to be on that same wave together.

Dancing is such a team sport, but all of
the players on that team need to also be…

a one man show
in their own right, as well.

So your kinda wearing
two or three different hats at once.

And your just flicking between those hats.

And you need to be able
to do it on a dime.

[light music plays]

[Cassie] People say it's lonely
at the top, and Max is so talented.

That does put him on a pedestal.

So the students would see him up here,
and then potentially separate themselves.

Which can affect someone,
especially at such a young age.

[piano music plays]

[Max O] In ways…

I know that I'm a good dancer,

and I know that I can do some stuff that…

not everyone in the course can do.

My ultimate fear is that I be perceived as

cocky, or…

not having humility.

I… I keep to myself.

[piano music fades]

I know that it's not healthy.

But…

there's not much
I really know how to do to fix it.

So…

It's just what I have to do,
well not what I have to do, but…

what I end up doing, all the time.

[soft string music plays]

[indistinct chatter]

All right, let's go, let's have some fun.

Um…

I think I've worked with
quite a lot of you guys before.

So you guys, or most of you
will know my processes.

All right, I'm just gonna teach
a few little choreo blocks.

I need everyone to dance,
like, their centre.

You know what I mean?

[feet stomping]

Fist…

Doop, doop, doop, doop.

Five, six, seven, and we're going,

doop, doop, doop.

- Yeah, opposite.
- [Emilia] Is that a question or a…

Yeah, so… boom, boom, boom, bah.

Five, six, seven, and go.

[stomping feet]

Push, yep.

Six, seven and doom…

[Jacob sounding out]

[Jacob] Good, good, good, good.
Six, seven and…

Bah, bah, bah, bah… bah.

Yep. Make it like,
a little bit more looser.

[Jacob sounding out]

- Okay.
- [Jacob] Make sense?

- [Emily] Yep.
- [Jacob] Yep, cool.

[Erin] Emily, it doesn't matter
what style she's doing

she's actually really good at all of them.

That's like, ours is kinda like jazz
dancers doing hip-hop, I'd say, sometimes.

Whereas she's like, full got like that,
I don't know, groove and everything.

[Jacob quietly] How many do I need?

[Jacob vocalising]

[indistinct chatter]

All will be revealed, Emily.

And when we say all,
you are all and you will be revealed.

[Emily] As much as…

it is important to, you know, be seen too.

There is a cohesive group, you know,

you're there as
the Brent Street Full Time.

So you're kinda there
as like a family, like as a team.

So I see it as that, but also,
there is also the other factor of,

you know, if you are given
a centre part or a leading role

it's always, you know, great
because you might just get that extra eye.

[Jacob] Five, six, seven, and a strong,
two, three, four,

and line and tick, up, boom.
Two, three and four.

Ta, te, ta, ta, da, and da.

Zoom, ta steps, ta, ta,
te, te, diddy, diddy, da… da.

Ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta, ta,

and diddy, diddy, da, ah, ah, ah, ah.

Okay, cool, cool, cool.

Traffic, traffic. Evan and Santiana
got taken out. Yep.

So with this whole routine, there's a lot
of different styles and that going on.

- Yep.
- Um…

Obviously, my style is like, quite strong
and that, and the song is like…

really heavy hits

and that's why we put you in the middle,
because you've got so much strength.

Okay, nice and strong, five, [claps]

six, [claps]

five, six, seven, eight,

and one, two, three, four.

Bup, bup, and ta,

and one, two, three, ga, ga.

Da, de, da, and a eh, eh.

One, two and, eh, eh,
five and six, and seven, eh.

[Jacob] Yeah!

Yay, that looks nice.

Okay, phew.

[Emily panting]

[indistinct chatter]

That looked so good, what the actual hell.

- [Emily panting]
- [Charlotte shrieks]

- [Charlotte] Oh my god, that's so good.
- [Emily laughs] Thank you.

[soft music plays]

[rain on rooftop, thunder]

[indistinct chatter]

[Cassie] Woo, it's cold.

All right, let's do it.
First positions, let's go.

I think we're about halfway through
the process, and…

I feel like we're on a good trajectory,

it's just that I know that,
like, by the time…

we get to, like, the next thing,
everyone will have forgotten the old thing

'Cause everyone,
no one ever, like, practices.

They're all like, "I'm gonna go home and
practice", but no one ever does.

[Cassie] Go one, and two, and three, and
four, and five, six, seven, and eight,

and one, and two, and three, and four.

♪ Emily is killing it
It's really very good ♪

Boom, clap, clap. Okay, go again.

- [Roland] Boom.
- [Cassie] One, two…

You can never feel too secure
in your place as a dancer.

But, I'm feeling pretty okay.

I feel like it will look good.

Not yet, but it will happen eventually.

Um, where is Erin?

[indistinct chatter]

Yes, you're in trouble. [chuckles]

Um, can you stand in for Kim today?

- Yep.
- For that, that section, 'cause…

apparently she's just not coming in
today and doing something else.

She's not sick anymore.

- Oh, okay.
- So, I'm just like, I need someone I can…

trust.

- Oh, okay, sure.
- Yep. Go. Love it.

[Cassie laughs]

Five, six, seven, eight.

Go, one, two, three… [screams]

- [shrieks and laughter]
- [Cassie] Go, seven, eight…

[student] What's she doing?

- I don't know, I was just like…
- [student] Great face.

Um, Michael told me
this morning that Kim's better.

But she's just not coming today
because she's doing something else.

- She's doing something with her, um…
- [both] Agency.

- Like a work… I think she's doing
- She's pursuing all acting work.

a workshop or something like that.

[sighs] I would love to still have her,
but I just don't think it's fair.

Yep. No, a hundred percent.

I think honestly it's gonna send a
better message to everyone else.

- Like, you can't just be away and…
- Totally.

- [both] and still get the part.
- [Cassie] I know.

- People are busting their arses.
- Because then people get lazy,

and people get complacent,

- so it makes a lot of sense.
- Yeah.

It sucks, but like, that's…

- You wouldn't be put on a job,
- Totally.

- and then put at the front.
- Yeah.

You can't not come to rehearsals
and still book the job.

Yeah, no.

- Mmm.
- That's rough.

You need to go… and eight, and one.

To go, two.

So walk, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight,

and a one, tap, tap, tap,
boom, boom, boom, and shoom…

Foom.

[both counting beats]

[Cassie] Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh.

[producer] So Erin, what are you going
to do with your opportunity?

Slay the house down.

[all laugh]

[fast piano music plays]

[beat drops]

Arch. So start back,
and then think voom, voom.

[upbeat music plays]

I think, like, don't go too big.

[Erin] If there was someone who you had
tension with and they took your position,

yes, there would be, um…

a bit of tension, but I feel like me and
Kim have, like, a bit of understanding

because we were both in, like,
the two class together.

- [Erin] Do you know what I mean?
- It wouldn't be personal.

[Erin] Yeah, I completely agree with that.

As much as we, like, as a collective,
like to lift each other up,

in the back of everyone's head

everyone is each other's
competition in the industry.

[piano music continues]

[Maddi] That was a huge moment for her
and she was the focus point of that.

So, yeah, that's a hundred percent
gonna decrease her opportunity

of being seen at Light the Way.

[thunder cracks]

[water running]

[Kim] I felt sick
and I just slept the night,

and then I woke up
the next day, like, even worse.

I was like vomiting and, like,
my mum took my temperature,

and my temperature was like,
39 or something. Like, it was really high.

So I just went to, like,
the emergency room.

My fever, like, ended up dropping,

and then the day I was meant to come back
I double-booked myself.

Oh my god, I felt terrible.

I was up the night before
stressing about it.

I called Cara, and I was like,
"I don't know what to do."

I just don't know. I think I probably have
missed my chance at Light the Way.

I don't hate myself for that,
but in a way I do.

I act as though I'm like,
a really happy person.

But, when things affect me,

they affect me.

But, I just don't show it.

I don't like to show it, because it just
shows a weaker side of me. [sniffs]

And, really…

in any scenario you don't want
people to think that you're weak.

[soft music plays]

I don't like to show that I'm sensitive,

because why would you want a weak player
on your team, you know. [sniffs]

[indistinct chatter]

I've had a bit of a stiff neck all week,

but yesterday I had a rehearsal

and, like, it was feeling fine,
but after I got home

and I woke up this morning I
just couldn't really move my neck.

So I went to, um, a dance physio

and he said there is a possibility of
having a bulging disc in my neck.

[Cassie] What's wrong with you?

I'm fine.

You don't look fine.

I'm fine.

Her body has been damaged for sure.

But she just pushes through.
She'll just do what she has to do.

She'll go to a physio just to
get her through the…

the performance, like…

[Carla] Yeah, she doesn't care.

- [moans]
- [Physio] Sorry, mate.

- [Physio] Just that one, yep,
- It's all right.

[Physio]
and there's one more to come in.

Whatever it takes. [laughs]

It's a setback, but…

so what, you'll get through it.
Toughen up, you'll be right.

It's just this weekend.
After this weekend, it's fine.

Like, then I can start
getting better, but…

Yeah. Yep, it's fine.

[ominous music plays]

[indistinct chatter]

[Cassie] Go again, ready.
From the flashes.

Five, six, seven, go!

One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven, eight.

Shoom. Stop there.

No good.

Yeah. Things that we have
gone through time and time again,

we are still doing the wrong things.

[Tiana] I feel guilty for sitting out.

If I'm in a wheelchair I will be standing
up for that performance, I don't care.

[Cassie] You know when you
freshly learn something,

you're excited about it, you go hard?

I'm missing that.

Yeah? Flat out every single time.
If you weren't warm, that's on you.

- [upbeat music plays]
- All right, first position, go.

Here we go. Yep, up. Ready?

I know I'm so tough, I'm so tough.

But our bodies won't do what we
need them to do for the rest of our lives.

It might end at any moment.

Unfortunately, there's trends
within dancing as well.

It's just like fashion.

Someone might be really hot at one time
as a choreographer or a dancer,

and then it might take a turn, and it
might not be you anymore, so…

The time is now, as well.

[clock ticking]

And go!

[Gwen Stefani: "What You
Waiting For?" playing]

C'mon, big. Use your face. Flat out!

[song fades]

[upbeat music plays]

[music fades]