Wade Robson Workshop

Yesterday was the most amazing day ever. Ever ever ever. The first time I got the sms that stated there was a Wade Robson Workshop going on in KL at Celebrity Fitness. I was pretty determined to go and check it out. Of course when you think about it, I first thought that I was going to be doing some class that is just going to be another instructor dancing to Wade Robson choreography. For RM250..that’s believable. But then later on I got word from my friend that it really is Wade Robson who would be teaching the class. In the flesh man!!

So on a very last whim, I decided to join the workshop even though I knew I would probably kill myself cause i would have to rush for call time. Worth every bit of it, I have to say. I had to run all over the place just to go and find an ATM machine to pay Jie who is the person we were to alias for registration. Apparently the company that brought Wade down is Soulful Symphony owned by our Malaysian Idol Finalist Dina.  I arrived at One U Celebrity Fitness about 15 minutes before the workshop started. They gave us a bag of freebies which consisted of an adidas merchandise. There was a free dri-fit shirt, adidas notebook, socks, a celebrity fitness neckchain, two free day passes to celebrity fitness and another freebie for spa. 

Going in there Min Li and I went ahead to the locker to change. We could see every girl trying to be creative with the way they tied their shirt. To be either more fitting or shorter at the midriff or whatever. Honestly waste of time, cause in the end it’s all about being more comfortable to do the moves. Pehh. Of course we just had to take pictures in the locker room. That gym has one of the nicest locker rooms around. Very umm classy. Min took the blue while i took the red one. 

Warm up session was simple by one of our local dancers. Really sorry but I can’t remember their names. Then Dina came in to intro the man himself Mr Wade Robson!!! Woooooooooooo cheers all over the place… Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo  and then the choreography session began. Wade taught us some bit from a new show that is on in the near future. I forgot what it was but yeah he taught us some moves from there. 

Boy were they hard! For me anyway and that is terrible. It made me think ok if I were to go into something into an audition like “So You Think You Can Dance”…I’d probably faint from either exhaustion or possible humiliation. Thank goodness this was not a competition, it was just about learning to have some fun. 

 

I saw a number of familiar faces in the room. Some I knew personally from a long time ago in my dancing days and some only from the comfort of a tv screen. Those from the Tv screen were a number of contestants from the So You Think You Can Dance Malaysia Season 2. If you look closely at the pic above, there is one of the contestants watching by the foot of the elevated stage.  The whole choreography took was only about 34 seconds, but it took us 1 and a half hours to learn it. Man.. That long for such a short time. By the time we got to like just 16 counts, my shirt was drenched to the core. Like really really wet and just soaking with sweat. Oooh and I have to mention that I don’t think Wade appreciated it everytime we went bickering and making minor noises in the room when we couldn’t get a step or when he did some cool move. Thinking back to the SYTYCD season 3 when he was training Sabra and Lacey, he was hoping they would be quiet long enough so that they could focus. lol.  I would show how i did the choreography but I would die of embarrasment. I’ll show it one day, though. Let me practice it a bit more and let’s see whether I can do it better. Instead I’ll show how Wade did it…hehe Look at his legs move man. This dude has been dancing since he was 2, started being a pro dancer at the age of 12 and then did choreography for others at the age of 14. He didn’t start with professional dancing, but a lot of it came from watching music videos, learning and practicing again and again. Till he got it.  There was a special performance too by the dance crew Floor Fever and they requested for Wade to dance the choreography he did for Justin Timberlake’s ‘Sexyback’. Took him a while to remember but the crew were cool enough to say ‘Don’t worry we’ll help you..” Peeehh Yeah right. Wade Robson just needed to listen for a sec and WA-LA muscle memory kicked in. And then he started dancing. I’ll upload that video later.  

We found out more about the man during the Q&A session. This lasted for about 15 minutes and I was busy being a little miss busybody, but there were just so many questions I wanted to know and ask. On a professional level and just on a level of how he in his own way handle things as a dancer. 

Check out the video here.  After the Q&A session, we were all to line up if we wanted to take a picture with Wade. Hell yeah!! of course I wanna take a picture with Wade. Even if my hair was a mess it’s fine, cause it’s with one of the people I look to for inspiration. Wade was seriously down to earth and he’s amazingly tall. That’s beside the point but I’m just really glad I managed to meet one of the people who inspire people all around the world so much in the realm of dancing. 

And of course I had to take a picture with Dina herself. 

It was a seriously too cool and that was a super wonderful experience!!!! And word up for those of you who are in Singapore. Wade Robson is going to be there too. Brought under the Danzpeople which you can take a look here. So get yourself dancing people!