Lights, Camera, Dance! by Samantha-Ellen Bound

Author:Samantha-Ellen Bound
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Random House Australia
Published: 2015-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

‘Then we turn to the side, front leg loose and bent. Starting from the shoulders, full body roll, travelling down … Tove, wrong way, we roll, not contract – yep, that’s it, you got it! Give me some nuh linga on the back leg, wind the body up, legs in, out, we rollin’, we rollin’, have fun with it! Hitch the leg up, turn to face the back and rock, rock, rock, grooooove. Chop di grass!’

Jay had decided that his dancehall style had gone down a treat the week before so he’d stuck with the same style for this week’s lesson. I was trying to forget about the audition on the weekend.

It doesn’t matter that much anyway, I told myself.

But I knew it did.

Jay leant over, hands on his knees. ‘Love your work, groovers! Take a break.’

‘You’re the one who looks like they need a break,’ I joked, coming to get my water bottle. ‘Look at all that sweat.’

Jay playfully nudged my water bottle away with his toe. ‘What’s that, Ashfunk? You wanted a cuddle?’

‘Ew! No!’ I ducked away from him and his sweat drops.

He laughed and scooped my drink bottle up and tossed it to me. ‘Great work as always,’ he said. ‘How did the audition go? Heard anything yet?’

‘Nah,’ I said, taking a swig and wiping my mouth. ‘But you know what’s funny? The choreographer –’

‘My man Bliss, yeah?’

‘Yes, your man Bliss,’ I said, rolling my eyes. ‘Well, he choreographed a dancehall routine. Because that’s the sound of Fine China’s new song. It’s strange how you introduced us to that style only a few days before …’ I let my sentence trail off.

‘The world works in funny ways, Ash.’ Jay grinned.

‘It sure does,’ I said. ‘It’s almost like you knew that the audition would be dancehall style, and you wanted to prepare us for something …’ I looked at him slyly from under my fringe.

Jay was still grinning cheekily. ‘How would I know?’ he said. ‘I’m just the hip hop teacher at Silver Shoes. I don’t have the inside word on all that celebrity stuff. Little old humble me.’

‘Didn’t you just say Bliss was “your man”?’ I asked.

Jay laughed. ‘Sure. But if I thought that maybe some of my fave students had a good chance of getting into a video clip, which I just happened to know the style of, I’d like to think I was the kinda guy who would help them out a bit, you know, with preparing.’ He winked at me. ‘If,’ he stressed. ‘Now get back on that floor. We haven’t finished with the choreography.’

‘Ohmygosh!’ shrieked a voice.

Both Jay and I started. Who should be at the door but Little Miss Jasmine, waving at Tove.

‘Is that a banshee?’ asked Ellie, hovering nearby.

‘Tove! Tove!’ Jasmine yelled.

‘Yo, Jazz,’ Jay said. ‘Not that I don’t love seeing that heartbreaker of a face, but we’re in the middle of class here.’

‘I know, I know,’ shrieked Jasmine again. ‘But I have to speak to Tove!’

Tove ducked her head and looked super embarrassed.

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