JARMAINE: Joining this DanceOn competition kind
of struck me first.
I was scared.
Because the last time I danced I ended up whacking her face
with a tribal stick.
I didn't mean to.
She was the one who punched me first.
Don't mess with my moves, girl.
IAN EASTWOOD: Hello.
JARMAINE: Hi.
IAN EASTWOOD: Hi.
JARMAINE: I was asking somebody what you looked like,
and somebody said, some tall, skinny kid.
IAN EASTWOOD: That's me.
Yes, I'm the tall, skinny kid, Ian.
Very nice to meet you.
JARMAINE: Wow.
I've never been in a dance studio.
It looks weird.
IAN EASTWOOD: When I first see Jarmaine's YouTube videos, I
get so confused as to how all that happens on your face.
I just I thought it was just kind of like
bah, color, ah, color.
But she makes it more fun and interesting.
JARMAINE: I've always considered myself poised.
I think that's why they're so popular because she gives
really great advice.
But she also delivers it in a funny, cute, charming way.
The concept of our piece, you're
coming into a shoe store.
JARMAINE: A shoe store.
IAN EASTWOOD: Yeah, a shoe store.
I'm the shoe salesman, I guess.
And I sell you on it.
And by the end, we dance together and have little break
down together.
JARMAINE: Wait, it's just you and me together?
IAN EASTWOOD: No, no, I'm dancing with you.
Yes.
JARMAINE: Oh yay.
IAN EASTWOOD: Yeah, partner ah.
JARMAINE: First I thought I was going to be intimidated by
Ian because he's got some dance skills--
with next to no skills.
And then I started to break out of my discomfort with the
whole meeting him.
It was like music chemistry but people chemistry.
And I was just like, oh, can we dance outside the studio?
IAN EASTWOOD: Have this song called "Get Out My Shoes."
JARMAINE: "Get Out My Shoes." Is it fast?
IAN EASTWOOD: It's a little fast.
JARMAINE: Oh no.
So the last time I danced, we were doing
Little Mermaid, tutus--
failed.
I was not meant to be a dancer because I have a stiff body.
I move awkwardly.
IAN EASTWOOD: An eight count, a dance by yourself
before this, OK?
JARMAINE: Eight count.
IAN EASTWOOD: Yeah, one eight count.
JARMAINE: I learned that.
IAN EASTWOOD: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
JARMAINE: OK.
IAN EASTWOOD: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
JARMAINE: Why do you do it with more rhythm than me?
IAN EASTWOOD: I'm a dancer.
Five, six--
JARMAINE: Wait.
What am I doing?
IAN EASTWOOD: Just the legs.
Five, six, seven, eight.
Sometimes you have to teach things in certain parts.
And I taught her the legs first and then the arms, so
it's easier to add things slowly.
Two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
Pull your body, now use your body.
Yeah.
Don't fight your body.
Right now--
JARMAINE: Like, drop your body?
IAN EASTWOOD: You and your body are going like this,
you're boxing.
You and your body are just boxing each other.
JARMAINE: Like we're two different limbs.
IAN EASTWOOD: Yeah.
Don't think so much.
You're thinking so much in your head.
JARMAINE: I'm thinking awkward.
Ian says I fight my body.
Like I have a demon inside me.
Oh.
IAN EASTWOOD: You gotta catch it.
One.
JARMAINE: One.
IAN EASTWOOD: Yeah.
One, two, three, four, can.
Hold, hold, can.
Hold.
JARMAINE: Like, OK, how many Mississippis?
How many Mississippis?
Like two?
IAN EASTWOOD: Oh, no.
It doesn't work like that.
One, two, then out and an up--
JARMAINE: Oh, I have to keep moving my feet?
IAN EASTWOOD: --and a down.
Yes, you have to keep moving your feet.
That's the rule.
JARMAINE: It's like this thing right?
IAN EASTWOOD: Yeah, kind of.
But it actually works.
Jarmaine has problems moving her arms and
feet at the same time.
And that is a problem as a dancer because you have to use
your whole body all the time, at the same time.
Ta, ta-ta, and ta, ta-ta.
JARMAINE: Oh, I'm confused.
IAN EASTWOOD: So when you do this, you don't want to look
and see someone look like their thinking.
You want to watch someone just in their element.
JARMAINE: Like just fuse.
IAN EASTWOOD: I don't know what that was, but yes.
JARMAINE: I don't like somebody to act professional
around me all the time.
I don't do well with professional people.
I like to treat everybody like they're my friend.
And so I felt that with Ian.
And so once that comfortability happened, it
was like all right, what do we have to do?
IAN EASTWOOD: And arms, and arms, and yes, and yes!
JARMAINE: Ooh.
IAN EASTWOOD: Yes.
JARMAINE: Got it.
IAN EASTWOOD: That was it.
JARMAINE: Watch me lose it just now.
Like what you saw?
Like right now.
