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Okay, from the top, let's go.

Three, two, one.

Hold!

Okay. It's getting there.

It's getting there, but we're gonna have to go again.

Reset.

Full Time dance

or Full Time as we call it in Australia,

is like university for dancers.

Five and six and seven and eight.

One and two, three and four,

and five, six, seven, eight.

And one, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, and eight.

And one, two, three.

Dance schools are kind of known for having like,

the dancers are bitchy or whatever,

and I don't think that's what we have here.

It's more of a like a fight for the spot

to be a professional.

It's not bringing someone down,

it's, hey, there's one spot and it's gonna be mine.

This group is the best I personally have ever taught

any where, ever.

As soon as the music turns on,

no one in that room is your friend anymore.

Why are we dead in the face?

Boom! Stop.

Find the pause. Go again.

We have had a huge opportunity come into my inbox.

I've been in the industry for a very long time.

It is a once in a lifetime opportunity

for you guys to audition for.

You all know about Dean Lee.

You all know about his breadth of work

with multiple international touring artists,

specifically with Janet Jackson currently.

In my career, I've definitely been the underdog.

I don't think I have the conventional beauty standard

of what a backup dancer is.

I'm not hot, I'm not sexy, you know?

So for me, I really honestly, like so many people say this,

but I don't think they truly mean it.

But I literally don't care what you look like,

what height you are, what size your body is.

I couldn't care less, but just turn up and be great.

Show mama. Fill out from the top please.

Five, six, seven, and eight.

Hit it. One, two and three.

A four and five and six,

seven and eight and one.

The big dream for me is creating Shapehaus,

my dance company.

Boom, back.

Hit, hit, hit, hit, round.

Yes. There we go.

I'm a very good balance of Mama Dean

and the, you know, professional that's gonna crack the whip.

Five and seven and eight and one.

Boring.

We're always looking for the best.

I reached out to Brent Street

'cause I've never in my entire life

met a bad Australian dancer.

To be a backup dancer constantly working,

constantly touring.

That's like my dream. That's my end goal.

No one can be perfect but I try.

I love to just serve face.

Yeah, sometimes I get the tongue out, it depends. Yeah.

Shapehaus it's about recognizing the underdog.

The way you look does play a big hand

in whether you book the job.

For male dancers, stereotypes definitely vary.

Mask, there's not that many jobs out there

looking for a dancer like me.

I personally think I haven't booked a job

because of the way I've looked.

This opportunity with Dean Lee could possibly be

the last big chance of having a career like this.

I can see where their dreams are.

I can see what they want to be doing.

From the moment that someone had come up to me

and asked, "What do you want to do?"

It would always be backup dancer.

They wanna be on that world stage with that big artist.

They wanna be doing the music videos,

they want be doing Super Bowl,

they wanna be doing stadium tours.

I wanna live the tour life.

I wanna be going from city to city with no sleep.

Like this probably sounds like I'm listing

other people's hell, but it's heaven for me.

If they want like a real lasting career,

it needs to be international.

My plan is to bring 10 dancers from Australia

over to London to audition for one place in the company.

There's only going to be 10 of us

that get selected to go to London.

I just see myself working

as a young professional dancer

or like peaking now.

Only one of us will get to stay.

♪ Back out the stu', the biddies pull through ♪

♪ In, comin' out, it's a party zoo ♪

♪ Pick my cup, it's enough for two ♪

♪ Sip on the juice, all I wanna do ♪

♪ Do, do, do, do-do, do, do ♪

That name that they even put on the thing,

a backup dancer, that's my goal.

That's why I'm really interested.

We've got an audition coming up in our lives.

So what does that mean for you if it's a no?

This is what she's spoken about, backup dancing,

traveling to London.

Don't have her feet.

Okay. Like I'm not you either.

Squat, like a ballet squat.

She wants this more than anything.

She's been quite tame about it.

Go one, two, go three and four.

That was good. I loved that.

Okay, one more time.

Abby is honestly a superstar.

Abby's very, very good.

She's very versatile.

She is strong. She has a great look.

She is everything I would look for in a professional dancer.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, ha.

Abby's got the look. She's got the talent.

She's what you would call the perfect package.

♪ Tell 'em, I don't care ♪

♪ Tell 'em ♪

You know Doechii reposted you doing that?

Me? - Yeah. Only you.

She's like the amount of videos I posted

of people doing it and she reposted your one.

Oh my God.

She's really, really good

and I love that for her but it scares me so much.

Cooper and I met at Brent Street.

We found our ourself.

We found ourself always been,

I don't know, partnered together

or put together and things. - Yeah, it was cute.

We speak every single day.

Will you be speaking to Cooper

before you go in the room?

I don't think I'll speak to Cooper before I go in.

I don't know, it's just, it's,

he's not my competition,

but it is a competition. - Yeah.

Like I wanna do it together

but like I've never thought of us as like a half and a half.

He's always gonna be my number one supporter

and I'm always gonna be his,

but I'm gonna be selfish because it's my goal

and I have never really imagined

being a backup dancer with my boyfriend.

I've always just imagined being a backup dancer for me.

So that's what I'm gonna do. Sorry.

That was good.

I feel like there's a lot of good dancers

that worked so hard to get to where they're at,

but I feel like I did not work that hard to be here.

I literally just like

got magically good I guess.

But yeah.

Jake is a bit of a wild card because he is so incredible.

But I still think he is new and he is like up and coming,

so I think he has way more training to do.

But there is something about him that you do wanna watch him

and he does like draw your attention.

I think people would describe me

as just a really confident person.

I always walk around with my head held high.

Go one, two, three, four.

That was good.

Yes. Thank you.

Sometimes I can just have that bitch face

where I'm just like, I look like I don't care.

But I feel like that's just me on the outside

and no one really knows me on the inside.

I've heard things about you being late to class

or skipping class,

kind of picking the classes that you wanna do.

Like do you wanna be here?

I do.

Okay, well it feels like at the moment

that maybe that's not the case.

When you are on stage,

it's like not everyone's eyes are like technically on you,

but I like to just like think that.

Yeah, yeah. - Yeah.

And like on me

and I'm like a character, yeah.

And I feel like that's what gives me that aura.

Let's be so for real, if you want to be in this industry,

why wouldn't you want this opportunity?

I guess since being in LA,

it's not as glamorous as you'd want it to be.

In the two months that I have been here,

I've only booked the one job.

One paid job.

Finance is complicated.

Not complicated, wrong word, difficult.

So far I've always had a place to stay.

I'm 5'6". I still don't look like a man.

My journey in dance is extremely challenging.

I wouldn't say the best dancer always gets the job.

It's not necessarily the smartest financial decision

to be purchasing a ticket to Australia

because I don't know whether I've actually got enough money

to make it back to LA.

Have you heard that Max Ostler

is coming to the audition?

Oh yeah. - Is he coming for it?

Max Ostler being in the room, that frightens me

because he's incredible.

He's here in Sydney? - Is he doing it?

Max is one of the best dancers I've ever watched.

Oh yeah.

Yeah, he's got it

and he's got the emotional side

that a lot of dancers won't have.

Back at Brent Street.

A new audition.

This is a lot of cortisol for 9:00 AM.

Yeah.

I'm excited to step into the room

but at the same time a little nervous

because like it's kind of scary

stepping in with people who are younger than me.

We train like five days a week.

We're definitely at like the fittest

you ever are gonna be as a dancer is during full time.

It's also scary going in there

with like kids I've taught over the last few years.

Like the expectation is

that I probably should be getting it over them

but those kids are insane.

We're just like so eager

and like when they we then say bright and bushy tailed.

As a dancer, I feel like I'm quite confident.

Before an audition my ritual

is to imagine myself doing it.

Perfection.

When people are giggling,

you're obviously not really in the zone.

Smooth. Make it smooth.

Welcome, everyone.

We started off with 200 applications.

We will be cutting that down to a callback

of 40 people only.

From there we'll cut down to another group of 20

where you will dance for your life.

And then we will have our top 10.

I'm most intimidated

by Cassie... Cassie.

Out of everyone on the panel.

I want you to be hungry. Yeah?

Hungry but not desperate.

She's just scary.

She's just scary, yeah.

We wanna see if our current students can kick it

with the professionals that are in the rooms.

Amazing dancers are gonna get cut today.

Ready? - Yeah.

Let's go.

♪ In, put it down, make your heart go zoom ♪

♪ Kick my drum, make it bang for you ♪

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna do ♪

♪ Back out the stu', the biddies pull through ♪

♪ In, comin' out, it's a party zoo ♪

♪ Pick my cup, it's enough for two ♪

♪ Sip on the juice, all I wanna do ♪

♪ Do, do, do, do-do, do, do ♪

♪ Black out the room, make the bass go boom ♪

♪ In, put it down, make your heart go zoom ♪

♪ Kick my drum, make it bang for you ♪

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna do ♪

♪ Black out the room, make the bass go boom ♪

♪ In, put it down, make your heart go zoom ♪

♪ Kick my drum, make it bang for you ♪

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna ♪

She's an art. she's an art, he's an art.

Big arm more.

Tilt head.

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna do ♪

♪ All I wanna, all I wanna, all I wanna ♪

♪ All I wanna, all I wanna ♪

♪ All I wanna, all I wanna, all I wanna ♪

♪ All I wanna, all I wanna ♪

♪ All I wanna, all I wanna, all I wanna ♪

Some of them aren't match fit.

♪ Black out the room, make the bass go boom ♪

Thank you guys, thank you very much.

You can wear that in the hallway. Thank you.

I can't feel my legs.

I feel like I need a defib.

A defib.

So many girls, this is so hard.

Boom.

Nah, it's not hard.

Do you think you did good?

I think I did so good. - Yeah.

I wouldn't be like,

disheartened is probably the word if I didn't

'cause I know I just killed that.

Can you put Emily and Holly over here?

Okay, let's just do the girls first.

We have three more spots for the girls.

I think...

Emily does the chorey but I don't know who it is.

I actually haven't been on stage since grad.

So, it's been three years.

It's up to her as to when she will call it.

She'll know. - Time on it.

She'll realize.

But as time marches on, reality also sets in.

18 years now of dancing.

Like surely I could get something.

Surely, surely.

I wake up in the morning

and I check in the mirror to see what it would look like

and I would purposely at concerts, tape my boobs down

and my stomach down for a dance concert.

I've lost over 10 kilos.

In a way I just wanted to be wanted

by people in the industry.

I obviously had lost my mama when I was very, very young.

She didn't get to live the life that she deserved.

I feel like I was put on this earth to give her the life

that she was supposed to live.

So whenever I dance, I think of that.

Throughout my entire life I had held onto the fact

that I still have one parent.

I always knew, like, you still got your daddy.

He's still there.

Being 18, I was finally able

to obtain my documents from my entire time

that I was in the foster care system.

I sat there and I read over 1,000 pages.

Surprise is an understatement.

She had always gone on knowing

that her father wasn't well, was in care.

Yeah.

Didn't really know how to contact

or should she contact.

What would be the consequence of that?

But to get to open an envelope, read it.

Yeah. - And your father's past.

It was horrifying to be honest.

Please call this number.

So she calls the number

and says, "I'm Emily Madeline Smith reporting.

Can you tell me about my father's death?"

And then to be told it was four years prior to that,

it wrecked her.

Why could, you know, the world be so cruel?

That's what I was thinking 'cause,

I don't know.

You don't want anyone to ever go

through something like that.

You wouldn't wish that on your worst enemy, you know?

So that was a...

It was a tough situation for me.

It's still like-

It broke her, it broke her.

I've got no parents anymore.

From that, I've learned a lot about myself

and my resilience and how strong I am

and that if I can get through something like that,

I can honestly get through anything.

That's why dance has really been

the biggest thing in my life

because I've been able to just push everything aside

and just do what I love and move and feel happy.

If I were to not get through this audition,

I think I would question myself as a dancer.

I'd think, God, what am I even doing anymore?

Like should I get an office job?

Like literally.

Everybody back in please.

Moment of truth.

We would like to see these people for a callback.

118.

65.

95.

29.

125.

36.

Six.

Number 134.

Number 20.

Number 152.

Number 19,

number 41.

Yes, I have gotten in to the next round.

Very, very excited. Very, very grateful.

I was actually very on the fence about if I would or not.

I swear every time I look over,

someone is practicing this combo.

It can't get into your muscle memory anymore. I swear.

No, thinking about like half this room getting cut.

Okay, great win. We made it through the first round.

Awesome.

Harsh reality. Yeah.

I'm gonna give it to you straight.

It's not good enough yet.

Don't hold back.

Now is the time to really push yourself.

If you know that you are confident

in just standing there and like looking, do that, yeah?

I haven't seen some things from people

that I know that they can do.

I still have a lot of like

inner self-talk I need to work through.

Okay.

Here we are. The top 40.

We're gonna keep everyone in the room now

so you can feel each other's energy a little bit more.

Yeah.

You'll also notice

who your competition is in the room in that way.

Ultimately we're looking for people to make mistakes

so we can get rid of people.

So don't give us the opportunity

to cue you out. - Yeah.

Because it'll have to happen that way.

We're just gonna pull you out

in some smaller groups

and give you a little bit of feedback.

I wanna see grit and grime and disgustingness from you.

You have so much more to give.

I want the bite. I want everything.

You need to stand out in the chorey and only the chorey.

Yeah, that last round is gonna be

where you get to add that next layer.

So if you can't stand out within the framework

of what we've given you,

then unfortunately that's gonna have to be the end.

Yeah?

So, I wanna see be, be, be, finish.

Hold it, hold it, hold it.

Ba.

I myself was never

the strongest dancer in the room,

but the one thing that I did have

was an ability to make you watch me.

I would only put one through in that group

personally. - Really?

Abby, I would love a bit more fun with it.

♪ This means war ♪

You can dance like nobody else.

You are one of the most trustworthy dancers in the room.

Max, I wanna see you fight for it.

Yeah. - I feel like you have

so much more to give.

Yeah?

You might not get a second chance.

♪ All I wanna do ♪

♪ Black out the room, make the bass go boom ♪

♪ In, put it down, make your heart go zoom ♪

♪ Kick my drum, make it bang for you ♪

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna do ♪

♪ Back out the stu', the biddies pull through ♪

♪ In, comin' out, it's a party zoo ♪

♪ Pick my cup, it's enough for two ♪

♪ Sip on the juice, all I wanna do ♪

♪ Do, do, do, do-do, do, do ♪

♪ Black out the room, make the bass go boom ♪

♪ In, put it down, make your heart go zoom ♪

♪ Kick my drum, make it bang for you ♪

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna do ♪

♪ Black out the room, make the bass go boom ♪

♪ In, put it down, make your heart go zoom ♪

♪ Kick my drum, make it bang for you ♪

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna ♪

Nice!

♪ Four on the floor, all I wanna do ♪

I'll take it.

That's it. That's the starting point.

That's what we want. - There we go.

I did like this foot to the floor.

Wasn't planned.

Based on that second round,

Max Ostler was the person

that really stepped it the hell up.

I am Jake's number one fan.

I think he did really well.

I think Jono did really well.

It's one or the other for me.

It's one of these two.

I really think Jake kicked it with the big boys.

I agree and he brings something

that none of those boys have.

So we're gonna release Jono?

Oh.

That sucks but yes.

Taking rejection is a big part of being a dancer.

You're not gonna be right

for every single thing that you do.

Sorry, Coops.

That's the end of the road for me but that's all right.

Abby. - Yeah, she's here.

Go give it your all. - Yeah.

And yeah, you'll be fine.

Thank you. - Of course.

Emily.

I wanna see her become an artist, not just a dancer.

Totally. - I agree.

Yeah. - And that's what's lacking

and is that something that Dean can get out of her?

Maybe.

We have seen you dance.

So, tell us about what this opportunity would mean to you

and how it could set you up for what you want in the future.

Dance is my life.

This has been what I was born to do since 2 1/2.

This is what I wanna do and it's what I'll always do

and it's what I need to do.

I'm ready to move overseas and take the next step.

And I know that I need to be

in front of these people to make that happen.

Just gathering my words.

What Sydney dancers have is like out of this world.

My lifelong dream is to back up dance.

I know I'm gonna do it.

I've always been like a known dancer

that works their butt off and is at every rehearsal

and always knows what she's doing.

But I've never quite gotten there.

I've always been just under,

or I don't know, always relied on but never the one chosen.

It broke me for a while, but I just keep fighting.

When I first came here,

I think I was definitely this

like irrelevant Melbourne girl.

Going there would light me up a bit more.

Yeah.

And prove to the haters that I got this bitch.

I guess post full time was a pretty rough time for me

because like I fell out of love with dance.

I think I'm at a point in my life where I'm ready

to just chase my dreams.

We've all worked our asses off to be in this room

and we've worked our asses off

to be at the skillset that we have.

And I think this is the gateway.

Mm.

I don't wanna keep mentioning.

Okay.

When I grew up, I would imagine myself

dancing on a stage in an arena.

Oh my God.

I don't know. Sorry.

I just...

It's okay. - You did so good.

So good. - It's so good.

Don't apologize.

Anyway.

Yeah.

I'm just, yeah.

I don't know what else to say. Sorry.

Hello.

I think for me personally as a performer here in Australia,

I've felt quite lost.

I feel like I've never really fit in a box.

I think really this trip for me

would allow me to find myself,

if I could say in a short sentence.

Top 10 would mean like the absolute world to me

'cause I came to Brent Street this year.

I'm from the smallest town I think ever.

I'm from a very traditional Italian family.

My dad owns a heap of farms.

I can remember him when he was four years old

that we have a Filipino Christmas party.

And he goes to me, "Mom, I wanna dance."

I go, "No, because it's all girls."

But he was crying, he was insisting to dance

and "Mom, I'm going to dance."

When we do competition he's always got the first place,

first place, first place, wherever we go.

So it was amazing.

My mom was the one taking me to these competitions.

My mom was taking me to these workshops

and my dad, he wasn't very supportive deep down.

Jake's busy.

Jake is a bit different.

Hey Jake. - Yeah.

Yeah, I guess.

You see he's a bit girly, you know?

Like with Italian doesn't support that.

I just like broke stereotype in Griffith

because I don't think anyone, especially males,

especially Italian males, has ever done this ever.

No. Yeah, at all.

So it's very like, it's very scary.

School was very hard. I was very feminine.

Also a Catholic school, so.

Yeah.

When he get bullied, it affect us as a parent, you know?

So it really, like there's a time

that I was gonna pull out Jake from school.

But Jake always says that, "No, I'm going to be a dancer."

Yeah. - So I wanna be a dancer.

I said like what?

He said, "I will be a backup dancer."

Has a big ambition, you know?

Yeah.

We've reached a point of the day

where it's improvisation.

For me personally it's the most exciting

but I know it can be the most terrifying.

Everything we've done up until this point

has been about executing notes that we've been giving you.

This is your opportunity now to be implicitly,

wholeheartedly, and fully unapologetically yourself.

Fear is the thing that defines us so often

and fear is the thing that holds us back.

And fear is the thing that puts us in the car driving home

after an audition like this going,

"I should have, I should have,

I should have, I should have."

Try and leave everything that you've done

previously today outside.

This is like a new energy we need to bring into the room.

This is your chance to dance for your life.

Really I know that sounds dramatic,

but this is literally what this is,

an opportunity like this only comes around.

It basically never comes around, yeah?

So leave fear at the door.

Use every single delicious count in that eight eights.

Dance for your life.

Let's go.

Nice.

♪ You like what you see, you won't forgive me ♪

♪ I'm hot with the detail ♪

♪ I put your degrees, they're on their knees ♪

♪ Don't forget to exhale ♪

♪ It's time to get up, I'm strutting my stuff ♪

♪ I'm hot with the detail ♪

♪ I put your degrees, I put your degrees ♪

♪ You like what you see ♪

♪ You like what you see, yeah ♪

♪ You won't forgive me ♪

♪ you won't forgive me ♪

♪ You won't forgive me, yeah ♪

♪ You like what you see, you like what you see ♪

♪ You like what you see, yeah ♪

♪ You won't forgive me, you won't forgive me ♪

♪ You won't, you won't, you won't ♪

♪ You won't forgive me, yeah ♪

♪ You like what you see, you won't forgive me ♪

♪ I'm hot with the detail ♪

♪ I put your degrees, they're on their knees ♪

♪ Don't forget to exhale ♪

♪ It's time to get up, I'm strutting my stuff ♪

♪ I'm hot with the detail ♪

♪ I put your degrees, I put your degrees ♪

♪ You like what you see ♪

♪ You like what you see, yeah ♪

♪ You won't forgive me ♪

♪ You won't forgive me, yeah ♪

♪ You like what you see ♪

♪ You like what you see, yeah ♪

♪ You won't forgive me ♪

Nice.

That whole moment we saw it, I've got goosebumps,

like literally.

You've made our decisions 4,000 times more difficult.

But that's what dance fuel life is.

I could be in it

depending on what they saw in me today

and like what I said, hopefully that was,

they're able to see through that.

Yeah.

Every single person in that room

deserves to be in front of Dean Lee.

So, it's really anyone's game at this point.

Far out.

Yes, I can get in the top 20,

but can Emily be in the top 10?

I feel like that's the thought that I have,

but maybe they have as well.

So I don't know.

Okay, obviously today's been a huge day for everybody.

If I call out your number,

you will be one of the 10

to receive this life-changing opportunity.

Okay, the first number I would like to call is number 29.

Thank you so much.

That's all right.

Oh my God.

The next number I would like to step forward

is number 138.

Number 67.

36.

121.

147.

Number 121.

Number 73.

So there's one spot left.

My heart is like smashing against my rib cage it feels.

But the final number to add

to our top 10 is number 152.

Yay!

Oh my Lord.

I honestly can't believe it.

I was so scared in the audition room

that I wasn't gonna make it

and that just kept running in my head.

So now that I've gotten through to the top 10,

I feel so much lighter.

London is such an amazing place.

Everything is there.

Sharing a house with 10 dancers,

it's a lot for me.

Especially someone that basically lives in a nursing home.

But I'm gonna cry a lot when she goes.

I love packing because I feel like it's manifesting

my life of a dancer

where you're just always from this place

to that place and over.

Wait.

Can I answer this?

"Conor, did you hear about Abby?"

She just got dropped from a really high lift in rehearsal

"and has been rushed to the hospital."

What are they saying?

Oh my God.

There we go.

I can feel something.

Hopefully it's just a sprain.

I doubt it.

Sock is off.

Ooh, that is huge.

No. Are you joking?

No, I'm not joking.

It's pretty big.

Biggest one?

It's pretty big.

Cried off all my makeup when I first fell.

Anyway.

She would be feeling so devastated.

But I mean that's the life of a dancer.

You're injured one week

and then you're on stage the next week

and then you're in pain the week after,

and then rinse and repeat.

So, I think that's just what we signed up for honestly.

I didn't read the fine details, the fine print.

I didn't read the contract I signed whatever

but I think everyone knows that if you're a dancer

you're gonna wake up with pneumonia

and then you're gonna have to perform on stage

that night with Ariana Grande.

You just have to, it's our job.

And also, we love it so much.

We're all crazy.

We have spoken to Dean

and I was trying to gauge what does this week

kind of look like

for everybody. - Yeah, yeah. Yep.

And he said he thinks that even dancers

that are 100% capacity are really gonna struggle.

Mm.

So he had said to me that

if she's not at 100% then she shouldn't do it.

Mm.

So I think we're gonna have to call it.

Like I feel like I can just see myself

like getting the job done

and I'm like, I feel like if that's my attitude,

like I feel like I still deserve to go.

I don't know.

You deserve it.

It's not about deserving. - Yeah,

you absolutely deserve it.

It's not about deserving it

at all. - It's about the damage

you could do to yourself. - I know, I know

there could be more damage

but I feel like I could just keep rehabbing it

day after day.

Icing it day after day and if it hurts more

and it does get worse, then I don't care

because I don't know if I wanna do this forever.

Like I'm just trying to be real.

Like I just, I love dancing

but I'm like I don't see doing it

when I'm like 30 something.

Like people do, I get that,

that is like what dancers dream of.

But I'm also like, I do want a family one day.

Like I'm like I wanna peak now so I wanna do this now.

Even if it does cause further damage.

Like I wanna be there and do it.

Like I really do and I know that he doesn't want

someone weak in the group

but like other sports,

like people are giving it a go even when they are sore,

they have a sprain and they fractured their foot

or they... You're right.

It could be fine.

You could go over there and you could absolutely kill it.

That is a possibility.

There's also a chance that you do further damage.

I agree and I don't care for that.

But that's not a risk that we wanna put you through

or that Dean wants to put you through

as well, you know? - Exactly.

I still wanna go so I don't know.

I just feel like I could do it.

I think maybe... Do we need to-

A conversation with Abby's physio

to say these are the things

that are likely going to be asked of her

and are you comfortable clearing her?

Call me tomorrow morning after you've been to the physio.

We'll then figure out from there

whether you're gonna get to the airport

and we'll make this happen

or whether we need to call it at that point.

110 to on call.

Is there anyone else here?

Or just me.

Oh.

Hi.

Yay!

Oh, oh my God.

I'm excited, my God.

Yes.

I'll go through.

Yes.

So see you. - Yes.

Your face was like, what?

Oh no, I realize I was like yes.

So you got cleared? - Yes.

I'm just in like a thing underneath a boot.

So it's called an air cast for now.

And it's so good. - I'm so excited.

I would love to have a British accent.

A British accent.

I would love to live in the UK.

Five, six, seven, go.

One and two and three and four and no Zac.

What, I was three.

Your food stomps on your count.

You don't start moving on your count.

Yeah.

Center... You're always saying yes

but you're not doing.

Charles is gonna be waiting there

for a big hug on Alex.

Okay, so if I just get to live in there.

Like I don't even have stairs in my house.

One and two and three and four and five and.

That was... Yeah.

That was actually the beat.

Yeah!

I embrace the miracles flowing into my life each day.

I embrace the miracles songs into my life each day.

I need to embrace those miracles.

I embrace the miracles.

Also got some gratitude and worth

'cause you know. - We've got everything.

Gotta remember my worth and get my gratitude off.

Have you got like an ex-boyfriend spell,

spray or something?

Yeah, it's actually right here.

That we like spray around.

Back in our full-time dance training

we were a little item.

Yeah. - So we dated for,

how long was it?

On and off. - Yeah.

It was on and off in the past

and then we broke up straight after.

Yeah like three years ago we broke up

and then you know, life just likes to put us

in scenarios together every now and then.

Yeah, like this one.

But this is actually the first time

we've been put in the same room

I feel like in the next few days,

so, 'cause it's gonna be so intense we'll be like,

or either we'll be like, ohm we're in London or like-

Or like, oh, get me out of London.

It feels like the stakes are so high.

Well like they're always high in the dance studio.

Like it's dance studio.

But because it's Dean Lee

and 'cause there's other, I'm a little bit scared

about the London dancers.

Like intimidating? - Intimidated

and also just sometimes I feel like I get really,

I can get really awkward in big groups

and I'm just scared I'm gonna say something wrong

and they're gonna be like,

"Oh, who's this blonde little boy from Australia?"

They're all gonna be like pros as well.

Yeah.

Like I don't know whether they'll like

look down on us. - Yeah or like,

I just don't know what to expect.

Judge us or if they'll be, they could be really nice.

We just don't know.

I also feel like dancers are never really nice.

No, well deep down at least.

The nervousness has crept in.

Yes. - A little bit more.

I would definitely like to be

the person that gets the contract.

Do you consider yourself a competitive person?

Whoever it is, like it means they're more suited

for the role of what he's trying to achieve.

But we all want it to be us though.

Absolutely, like-

We are rooting for ourselves.

Absolutely, like-

As well as each other.

But it's like we're all here

because we want to launch our careers.

Yeah.

I don't really see any other way that any dancer

in that room would feel any other way

than wanting to get that spot.

Do we dance every day

surrounded by people we love like our friends and stuff?

Like it's still competition no matter-

Yeah but that's like the hard thing

is like... I know.

Your best friend is also the person,

your biggest like enemy. - Biggest yeah.

In a way.

I want that dance contract.

I want that agent.

I want to win.

Hi, guys.

Hi.

How are we?

Good.

Come gather. Come gather.

How are we?

Good.

I'm so sorry I'm so late.

My flight was so delayed by a couple of hours

so I just, I got off the plane, came straight here.

So I just need a shower and then I'll be good to go.

Shapehaus was really born out of the idea of

I knew so many incredible dancers

but were just having such a hard time

cracking into the industry because it is so tough.

What you'll probably come to learn as well

is that it's not always about the talent of a dancer.

So for me, Shapehaus is really a group of people

that I know are exceptional at what they do

and giving them a space to be able to go on stage

and perform as a company.

Dean gave me my first ever job.

There was a thing about my height.

He was like, "No, I don't care.

He's gonna be taller than the other boys but I don't care.

He's an amazing dancer.

He's a star and we'll figure it out."

Dean can absolutely make some

wanna work in professional dancer.

Like I'd say he did that for me.

I treat it as if I do every other job

that I do in the industry.

Dean expects a lot from his dancer.

He expects excellence at all times.

Dean knows what he wants.

Be on

or don't be here.

I know there are some injuries in the room already.

So just as a safeguard and a backup for myself,

I've asked Lucas if there's any ever Brent Street dancers

here in London that can come in just to be a swing.

Abby is injured,

like that puts doubts and worries in my mind

because there is so much riding on this opportunity.

So I decided to call Lucas

and just see if he had any other

of his Brent Street dancers available in London.

And luckily he did.

And I've asked Espoir to come into this process

to really be a swing.

I was at Brent Street last year

and now I'm in London doing professional work as a dancer.

As a swing you're coming into the room

to learn all the material.

You're learning every single section

but there's always that possibility

that you may not be actually on stage for the end product.

There are definitely two leads for this piece.

Everyone's got the same opportunity,

everyone's got a fair chance.

So it's just about how you step up to that.

I have been a lead in the past.

I loved it.

It was probably one of the best

opportunities I've ever been given.

This is a moment for some people.

Like can be career-changing for some people.

I understand that there are different roles in the piece

and everyone is a valuable part of the piece.

But you're gonna fight for it.

So seven, eight, you're stepping on the right,

then back you're going one.

So that right hand goes right over the top,

please splay the hands, palms to the floor, one.

There's a little lean on this as well.

Six, seven, eight, one. Nice.

Great. Number done.

That's it. Yeah.

Seven, eight.

You go one, two

and yes.

Make sure you hear that.

Yes. And my focus is still to the front.

Picking a lead is a very complex process.

A one, under two, under three and four and five,

under six and seven and eight.

Not bad at all. Go again.

I always start with chunks of choreography

section by section by section.

And boom, ha-ha, boom.

Uh-oh, that was distinctly average.

Who's got the quickest pickup?

Who is performing straight away?

Do that again.

Five, six, seven, and eight and one E, under two

and a three and four.

Yes.

Do you see, like for me it's the fact

that he's already in performance mode.

Do you know what I mean?

Like that's a professional right there.

Conor has this thing that you either have it or you don't.

He's dancing it like he's on stage.

That's a special tool.

Not everyone can do that, okay?

But it's the fire in the eyes.

That's what I'm looking for, okay?

Everyone else is waiting for permission to be great

and you should never do that.

One and a two and three and four

and Jake, so embarrassing yeah.

Here we go.

So I just gave some notes to Jake specifically.

Some of his arms are in the wrong placement.

Five, six, seven, eight.

Already in my mind I'm looking

at who's ticking all those boxes.

Then I'll start pulling those out

and watching them together.

What I'm looking for in a dancer

is somebody that's gonna step on my floor

and let the fighter in them come out.

Okay, show Mama.

Let's go again.

I need to see Abby and Frankie again please.

Being the lead, especially Dean's pieces

is an amazing opportunity to be seen.

In moments of like harsh time

and when I'm not at my best I'm like no,

like I don't wanna...

I don't wanna not be the best.

I'll be coming in with fire, hunger.

You know when you're like gonna cry

and like you can feel it in like your throat.

Sometimes I feel dancing then I'm like,

like it needs to be me.

I don't wanna be a could have been a professional dancer.

I wanna be like a I am.

I'm not gonna like show that I'm struggling.

First of all, I'd like to hire you two together

for the rest of my life.

I do need to see Kieran and Max again.

Max and Kieran, they're similar height, similar build.

You could see the mental game of it.

Abby.

How is it?

It's good. - Yeah?

Yeah, I haven't felt any pain for like the past few days.

Okay.

That was like really good, a really good push.

I start off like a little bit easier

but I'm feeling like really-

I take injuries very seriously.

Yes, I know. - Okay?

Yeah.

I need to make the choice whether you are gonna be okay.

That final decision will will lay with me.

Okay.

So I think that's all we got time for today

'cause there's things that I'm gonna have to figure out.

You're making this choice very hard.

So just come prepared for tomorrow morning

'cause it's gonna be a lot.

I would love to go to a dance class and be barefaced

but I think it's just a standard thing

that no one wants to see that on stage as a dancer.

Like we, since young I was a comp kid

and I reckon since like eight years old

I've been wearing makeup including the eyeliner.

We've grown up dancing front of a mirror,

trying to be the best version of ourselves

since we were five years old.

The day after I graduated full time,

I booked the national tour of "Wicked The Musical."

I also danced for Meghan Trainor, Kylie Minogue,

Jessica Mauboy, Tones and I, and Katy Perry.

I was booking all those jobs straight after full-time

and now I've just stopped for ages.

But I sometimes think that my ability

has like dropped a little bit.

I feel like because I've been like a little bit out

of the commercial world for a while.

I think if I did get the lead it would kind of

give me that spark and energy

I need to like get back into it.

It's always been a thing for me

Really?

See, I wouldn't think that

because like I feel like everyone wants a tall race.

Yeah but I think dancers now, like when I was growing up,

everyone was like, your height's gonna be your superpower

and your height's gonna be this that.

And then I got to working and then it's like,

"Oh, you're too tall."

It's like me.

You know I mean?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Well, yeah.

See I've experienced that spectrum.

In full time I was definitely a lot skinnier.

I've been going to the gym a lot, been eating a lot.

And within 12 months I've actually put on

14 kilos of muscle.

A bit rusty.

But (breathing heavily) I don't know,

it was just little things like landing a bit heavy.

A big thing for me was

wanting to make myself look more masculine.

Probably need to work on my stamina.

Not as light as I used to be.

Whoa.

I thought like when you dance next to me,

we're dancing, just like I'm looking next to you,

I'm like you're nothing, just as big as me.

I'm like you're 6-foot.

I'm 6-foot at heart.

Exactly.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I wanna look at you for the lead.

I wanna try you out.

So, obviously you know that choreography,

you know the accents, you know the timing.

Now I just wanna see what you bring

to it character-wise. - Okay.

This is the hand that I've been dealt

so I need to find a way to make it work.

Take a moment.

Conor, can I see you please?

It looks like it was two possibilities

for a girl main and then a boy main

and I didn't even get put in the boy main group.

And I honestly was like, okay, well,

I'm off like I'm not in the options anymore.

And then after Max did it,

he was like, "Oh we're gonna try Conor."

And I was like, okay.

Yeah, perfect.

Let's try you in the same role.

Yeah. - Yeah, okay.

Can do that, yeah. - Yeah.

I wanna get it.

Touch wood, that's not wood.

First places.

Well done. Very nice, Conor.

It's really, really hard to decide.

It's really difficult.

Max, I'd like you to play the lead role, okay?

Thank you. - Well done.

Conor, amazing job as well.

There's just some thinking

Max's feeling that I think he's right for it.

But I would also like you to learn his track

and be first cover for Max, okay?

Well done.

And then like I said, yes, they're the lead roles

but there's a bunch of other features coming up

and tomorrow that's what I'm looking for, okay?

I'm ready.

The privacy situation.

Non-existent at the moment.

Non-existent.

No it's good.

It's tight.

We're trying hard with sleeping but.

We're all our siblings, it's fine.

Gonna break this house.

I just don't wanna think about this foot anymore.

I think this is the way to go for me.

I think one when everything's like chucked around like this,

like it's just easier for me to like dig through it,

through everything.

My lifestyle is just not organized.

Oh thank you.

Today is just about learning sections of choreography.

I might put it on your bodies

but I probably hate half of it already just so you know.

I'm here to work,

I'm here to create something great with you guys

and there's just no time for anything else in between.

It's almost like a patchwork quilt.

It's just like throwing sections of a choreography out

and then really what makes my piece is what they are

thinks about how I stitch them together.

One, two.

That one, two is awful.

Then layering with the story as well.

Pi, pi, tap, da-da-dong.

Pat, da-da, dee-dee, da.

This whole section is that you feel the atmosphere change

and the audience need to feel that,

but they're only gonna feel that if we're invested in it.

So just make sure there's an emotional change there.

Five and six and seven and eight.

They're all hard hitters as dancers.

Like that's not the problem for me.

Like I know they've got the energy and the power

but I also want them to understand

why they're dancing like that.

Jake, you good?

I feel like you're holding back a little bit.

I feel like it being shy

like I was standing in the back a little bit.

You were at the back.

Yeah, I don't know why.

I kept telling you to go forward

and you were like, I don't want to.

Okay. Can I have all my ladies on the floor?

And Jake, please.

Jake, he is fabulous and amazing

and he's got this personality to him.

Jake, I've asked you to join this section.

There's a lot of pressure and responsibility on you,

I know that, but I also wouldn't have given it to you

if I didn't think you could rise to that challenge.

But I do need to start seeing it.

You know what I mean?

I can feel that there's a world of things going on with him

behind that facade.

And one, two, three, four,

a five, nice.

From here, one, two.

I think your head just going. - Yeah.

One. Well it's okay.

Don't be sorry but it just went one count to early.

Yeah. - Great, let's go again.

I use confidence as like a mask because like

being insecure doesn't get you anywhere.

I know it's hard being the lead, yes?

There's no hiding.

Everyone always asks me like, "Oh you're so confident

and like you're so like up yourself kind of."

But I'm like, but I'm really not.

And I feel like this week especially like my first day

in the rehearsals kind of proved that

that was the real me standing at the back

and holding back.

That was the real Jake.

Three, four, five, six,

a seven, a eight.

One, two, and a three and four,

five, six.

I need to see something there, all right?

Yeah. - Again.

I feel like I do have some demons

that I kinda am fighting.

Like it's not easy like.

I ain't.

Like it wasn't easy for me to like,

like be 13 years old in like a small town

with like no support

and, sorry.

And like that's why I started dancing.

Like I feel like dance,

like dancing gave me that spark

and it gave me that confidence.

Don't hold back on me, okay?

One more please guys.

We will.

We're here chasing a dream,

so don't wait for that.

I wanna prove, I feel like not even just

people back at home, all my bullies back at home,

like I feel like it's just anyone in general,

anyone watching me, the audience, even Dean,

like anyone that walks into the room

is watching me dance,

it's very like I wanna prove to them

that like that I'm really good.

That's the fire in my stomach.

It is a risk giving Jake that feature.

He has to carry that entire section

'cause he is so young that he could go either way,

absolutely nail it or crumble

and we only have one shot to get it right.

I do need to call this rehearsal.

Obviously you are the leads and you are the first covers.

We've just got too much work to do

and too much to get through.

I don't wanna waste time tomorrow.

So we just need to do some extra rehearsal tonight

just to get done what I need to get done, okay?

All right, great.

So let's go to our first places please.

Carry on.

Nice.

Great. We're done guys.

I'm asking them to make the audience believe

they're in love with each other,

so that's a very, very hard task to do.

I think he will get there.

I do think he'll get there,

but I think he's got a little bit more work to do for sure.

Seven, eight

and one, two, three, four.

One more, one more.

Frankie and I are the leads of this routine.

The two characters are in love with each other.

Five, six.

And then can there be like a hip circle in that?

Like five, six.

It does get difficult in the sense

of we have only known each other for three days.

Yes, there we go. Much better.

Yeah. Well that's intense.

It can be difficult to be vulnerable

and open with someone.

One, two, three, four.

Yes. There we go.

That's better.

Last time.

When I watched him dance, he was just so amazing.

He empowered the character so well.

I really just instantly saw that character in him.

Thank you.

Shoo, and this be the head roll.

Three and four and five, six.

Set, yes. There we go.

Oh, I love that.

Yeah. - You know what mean?

And it's almost like we just see like half the face as well.

You know what I mean? You remember you're in the...

Yes.

You better.

Yes.

Let's try that.

One, two and three and four.

Five and six and seven, eight.

And a one, two and three and four

and five, six, seven, eight.

One, two, three, four,

five, six, seven, eight.

And one. There we go.

Good, good, good.

Like I haven't seen anyone move like that.

It's crazy.

It's so inspired.

Bleh, inspiring.

Thank you. - Absolutely.

Same, same value. - Thank you.

The more you guys can really, really

make that connection feel as real as possible.

I don't know if that means spending a bit more time

together during rehearsal,

having a lunch together.

Do you know what I mean?

Just try and get to know each other a little bit more

just so that the trust between you is like really solid.

His performance was so believable all of a sudden.

I'm not looking at the hype,

I'm looking at how you're making the audience feel.

On paper his height should go against him

and he probably wouldn't be the lead role.

In terms of like my personal appearance,

it's like this ongoing

thing that I have to work through.

As a dancer, you're in a room surrounded by mirrors.

You start to analyze your figure, your shape,

your body, everything about yourself.

You start finding things you didn't even know

you hated about yourself.

When you envision identity, you think of a good old girl

in a bikini top, hair out, swishing around,

dance off (indistinct).

And I walk in a baggy t-shirt

because I can't even look myself in the mirror.

♪ Oh, these choices that we make ♪

I'd be called thunder thighs

and you don't think those things are gonna stick with you,

but they do.

♪ How they leave the mended ones to break ♪

I can't even look in the mirror.

I can't even get to that point.

I have to look down

because it's too hard for me and look at myself.

♪ And I despise your wicked love ♪

I always, like, worry and stress that,

you know, I'm never gonna be the girl

that gets to be the part 'cause of how I look.

There was a time last year when, you know, I was with you

when I didn't eat for three weeks.

I was addicted to people telling me that I looked sick.

For both of us in that situation,

we didn't realize it was happening either.

We just thought it was normal.

♪ I was a perfect mess ♪

♪ Confused and lured by you ♪

♪ And I despise your wicked love ♪

You go to the doctors and they say,

"Look, you need to stop

because it's not good."

Yep.

It's sad 'cause this is just such a common thing

for all of us

and like, it's really awful

that we all have to deal with this.

I definitely relate

because I went through the same thing as a dancer.

I was told I was not hot enough, I was told I was ugly.

So the things I was thinking were already,

were actually also being fed back to me in real time.

And that's really what Shapehaus is about.

It's about finding the little diamonds in the rough

and you know, taking them in

and giving them a home basically and creating that together.

It's not something I intentionally did,

but I think,

I think because of how much I've been through,

I do everything I can to just make people feel loved,

feel seen, encouraged.

Like somebody's there for them,

somebody's there to listen to them and they're seen.

This past few days has been very inspiring for me

to realize that I don't need to fit into someone's mold.

You know?

Now obviously those thoughts will always still be there

forever because that's just how I am.

But I think there's just a slight shimmer of light from Dean

that has been like, we are worthy.

You are so incredibly talented.

Every time you step on that floor and you doubt yourself,

I want to think about why can't it be me?

I can.

I just need you to believe it.

Yeah.

You're leading with your heel, which I'm not mad at.

I kind of like it.

Should we add that in?

Yeah.

Okay, assistant choreographer.

My love of dance and my passion

I think really comes from a place of survival.

Yeah.

Because dance changed my life.

Yeah.

What dance has done for me, it took me from one life

and gave me another life.

When I was younger I was just like,

I'm not gonna live to see 30.

That's how it always felt to me growing up.

I think I was six.

I just remember the police coming to the house

and I remember just being pulled,

literally pulled out of my mother's arms

and being put in the police car and driven off.

Came to realize that at six years old

I'm being taken into care.

I grew up in Southeast London.

Just not a place of much opportunity,

no money, nothing like that.

School was really, really, really tough.

I knew I was an academic.

All I could think about was dancing and being on stage

and I just remember I wanted to go

to this dance class so much

that I decided that I'm gonna save my lunch money every day

and I'm not gonna eat

and that's gonna pay for my dance class.

The whole gay thing was definitely very prominent.

I went to multiple different secondary schools.

Just the bullying was really severe.

We had armed police in the corridors

because there was just so much violence at the school.

You know, I remember being in class

and held up against the wall with a knife to my neck.

You know, I'm being held over a train track

as the train's coming.

And truly in that moment thinking like,

that's it, I'm not gonna see another day.

Like that's how bad the bullying was.

And I think the really sad part about it is like

there was no one to do anything about it.

No one was willing to step in and do anything about it.

So, I actually ended up just taking myself out of school.

I remember I used to just sit at home

flicking through the music channels

and I remember "Together Again" by Janet Jackson coming on.

I watched it, I was like, that's what I wanna do

and that's who I wanna do it for.

I knew instantly. I'm like, this is my way out.

I've worked with, you know, Kylie Minogue, Chaka Khan,

the Jacksons, Sister Sledge, The Pussycat Dolls,

Eve, Little Mix.

Definitely the peak for me is I'm living it right now,

which is obviously working with Janet Jackson.

Do what you do.

Getting ready for Paris.

We are on our way to Paris again.

Janet always laughs because like, she's like,

when you come out, she's like,

"All I hear is everyone shouting,

'Dean, you better work bitch.'"

Like it makes her laugh so much.

Here we go.

Reaching this point in my career has taught me

don't count yourself out.

When we're doing a really intense week like this,

I find there's always a point where it's just nice

just to check in with everyone.

Any thoughts, any feelings, anything?

The floor is yours.

The whole experience has been just overwhelming to me.

I've never thought I'll be,

I'll be out here with all of you.

I've never thought I'll love this life in general.

And I was born in Congo

and when I was born, my parents had everything.

And about a year or two past when I was young,

there was war in our country

and my parents had to leave everything

and move away as a refugee.

But there was always nothing in the country

that would be like, yeah, you guys can stay.

'Cause we're all,

I don't have a birth certificate or anything.

In the camp, we were out of the war

but we weren't in a safe place to live.

We weren't in the world where we lived a normal life

where you can shower every day, eat every day.

Growing up I thought I've always had

like passion of freestyle dancing.

That was me running away from everything.

And most of the time I would freestyle

would be me free, sorry.

Don't be sorry. Take your time.

Would be me freestyling.

I'll be freestyling about my own life.

Seeing my parents struggling, I didn't have anything.

I would wear the same clothes in a week.

No shower for a long time.

I've had scars everywhere

but they've all been to wars and stuff.

Yeah, it's hard to go into the deep stuff.

I moved to Australia and trained at Brent Street.

It just bring me so much joy

and I was away from everything going on in the world.

Before I moved to Australia,

I've never dance like anyone in the class.

I've always been a believer of living in the moment

and don't think about the future 'cause I lost the,

I lost the future thinking when I was young

'cause I was like, there's nothing,

like I thought there was no escape.

But to be able to be in this room,

to be able to be with everyone at this moment,

sometimes I just see it and just tear up.

But yeah.

But yeah, I'm so grateful for everyone.

It's like a family.

Yeah.

It just feels like all of a sudden

there's just a bigger why

and there's a bigger reason

that just stitched us together forever.

It truly has

and dance really can change your life.

Let's do this now. - Dance now.

Yeah. - It's magic.

Let's go.

Let's go.

Let's go. - Let's go.

Yeah.

The week's gone so fast.

Let's have a good day. Yes.

All right, let's go.

I started like down here and now I'm just like going up.

And then just for now guys, you're just gonna hold it,

look gorgeous.

Six, seven.

♪ It's this business that I'm stepping on ♪

♪ Still betting on myself before I'm betting on them ♪

What I just saw then in that mirror, that's the magic.

♪ And then we though I'm coming, burning not a thing ♪

♪ Trying to go to war where man about ♪

Clap, clap, clap and da, da-da, da-da.

Boom. Go again.

Obviously I'm keeping an eye on Abby as well

because I know she's just had a very recent injury.

So she's either an incredible actress

or she's genuinely not in pain.

And one, a two, three

and four, five, six, seven, eight.

Good. Go again.

♪ 'Cause we a different calibre ♪

♪ If you want a heat then you can decide ♪

♪ Yeah, we a different calibre ♪

♪ Why you think that I would turn down a fight ♪

♪ 'Cause I ain't ever had enough ♪

♪ Why the hell were they still looking surprised ♪

♪ 'Cause we a different calibre ♪

♪ And if you want a heat then you can decide ♪

♪ 'Cause we a different calibre ♪

♪ Happy birthday to you ♪

I got put front center last night.

He has trusted me to do that.

Do you know if you're gonna be on stage

on Sunday yet?

That's something that I don't know

and I'm not sure what the answer to that.

So.

Would you like to be?

I would love to be out there with everyone,

but I'll also be a supporter if someone decides.

We've all grown, including the UK dancers,

like as a whole.

It's just one step at a time

but life is easier when you're having more fun.

This is obviously the last section of the number,

so, I really need the number to do this.

Doing Janet's show, we're in 33 numbers.

It's a two hour, 10 minute show. It's long

Body's feeling better today.

My body's still mashed up. - Oh.

In those moments, something else has to take over.

So close. - We're getting there.

So close. - It's just getting harder

'cause now we have to run the whole piece.

Yeah. Again, again,

There's like no breaks, no more.

No, burn out every single time.

Your passion and your love of what you do

then has to kick in

because that is actually what gets you through

that stamina threshold.

♪ Why the hell were they still looking surprised ♪

♪ 'Cause we a different calibre ♪

So I'm giving you best shot on (indistinct) in the number.

♪ Belly till my burns all bursting ♪

Oy, oy.

Oy!

♪ We ain't got no bridge comp, burnt it ♪

♪ Dirt it, that's how it is well I'm swerving ♪

♪ Bust it, I'll bust it ♪

♪ I'll be about to let it go, yeah ♪

♪ I'm the punisher, punisher ♪

♪ How I go in about a fro ♪

♪ He's just running, I'm running ♪

♪ Out there we've been through in the most high ♪

If someone was like, you have to do this

or like, you'll die, I'll just like do it.

Yeah.

Even if my body physically can't,

I'm just like-

Boys, have fun. - It'll just happen.

I'm feeling giddy, like I'm excited.

We'll figure it out.

Yeah.

I'm trusting that it's gonna be

magnificent in the day's time.

Today really is the last full day of rehearsal,

so what I expect from you guys is greatness.

♪ No ♪

♪ If you want a heat then you can decide ♪

♪ Yeah, we a different calibre ♪

♪ Why you think that I would turn down the fight ♪

♪ 'Cause I ain't ever had enough ♪

♪ Why the hell were they still looking surprised ♪

♪ 'Cause we a different calibre ♪

She's not thinking about it, she's just doing it

but I like, like that shape.

Yes. There we go.

♪ Trying to hit the belly till my burns all bursting ♪

♪ First thing's first get my truck line working ♪

♪ Burning, we ain't got no bridge comp, burnt it ♪

♪ Dirt it, that's how it is well I'm swerving ♪

Wow, that's so beautiful.

You've come in this week.

Yeah.

Really to swing the piece

because obviously we didn't, wasn't really sure

what was happening with Abby and the injury.

Yeah.

But I just, I don't know,

I really love watching you dance

and I love what you can do.

Yeah.

And so I just, I don't know,

I'd love to put you in the piece.

Thank you.

How'd you feel about that?

I feel really great.

It's like, yeah, it's awesome

and I just kinda, I don't have words to express

but I'm really thankful for everything and all that.

I think an air, I think that you deserve air.

Thank you. - I would just,

I'd really love to see you up on that stage on Sunday.

Thank you so much. - Yeah.

Thank you. Thanks for everything.

You're welcome. Well done.

Well done. - Thank you.

Yeah. Bye.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You guys knew?

Yeah.

We love you, Espoir.

Thank you. Thank you so much.

Such an inspiring moment for me.

Love all of you.

Love, thank you.

Thank you, all.

♪ I'm on a proper thing ♪

♪ I wrote the fresh kicks ♪

♪ Mine are showstopper king ♪

♪ Fresher than fresh, yes ♪

♪ I'm on a proper thing ♪

♪ I wrote the style that all the girls wants ♪

♪ And all the boys like ♪

Yeah!

Here we go.

We have an epic lineup for you this evening.

I am very excited, trust me, daddy

♪ I just do me ♪

♪ I just do me ♪

♪ I only do me ♪

We have some Australians in town.

Feeling excited.

Just pumped to get out there.

Hello, everyone up top.

♪ Kiss to the mirror ♪

♪ You know I'm looking pretty, let's roll ♪

I feel like me and Max are getting on really well

and our connection through the lead role

and everything is really good.

♪ I'm on some next thing ♪

♪ I got the style ♪

♪ I just do me ♪

♪ I just do me ♪

♪ I only do me ♪

♪ I just do me ♪

♪ I just do me ♪

♪ I only do me ♪

♪ I wear, I wear my hat real low ♪

♪ A little smile and show ♪

♪ Fresh kicks, one kiss to the mirror ♪

♪ I'm looking real pretty, let's roll ♪

There's a lot of pressure on this performance

with agents in the audience

and making sure that Dean is happy with how we perform

and also like performing for yourself.

Like you don't wanna let yourself down.

I definitely wanna be the person that gets picked by Dean.

I think that that is an opportunity

that so many people would die for.

Yeah at the beginning of the week for the contract,

I was just like, you know,

I didn't even know if I was gonna perform.

So now that I'm back in the running,

I need to put my best foot forward, both feet.

You know, thinking about who I'm gonna give a contract to

it changes a lot because there's so many different qualities

that I like in different dancers.

So they could all get it for different reasons.

I don't know how he's gonna pick.

We've been trying to guess it as well

and we're all finding it hard.

A really big factor of this decision

is how they do tonight.

It literally could go to anyone.

Jake in that section is killing it.

'Cause I'm the only guy in this section as well.

So it's like the focus is kinda going

towards me a little bit

and just like strutting towards the front

it just makes me feel very like,

just like I rule the world and that, yeah.

No matter who gets picked,

the connection that we formed with Dean

is incomparable to anything.

I literally could work with him forever

and I want to be in Shapehaus so bad.

I think Conor's got a really good shot.

I think Jake's got a good shot,

and then I think Max O has a good shot.

I just have a feeling it will be Max.

If I was given the chance to come back to London,

I would love it.

If it wasn't me getting picked,

Conor has done an incredible job this week,

especially learning my track as well.

You are gonna be in Shapehaus.

You are going to Dancers Inc., like I was praying for it.

To be honest, this is probably the most

important dance night of my life so far.

So, fingers crossed as well.

I'm really proud of the body of work that we have.

I'm proud of you guys,

but the reality of the situation also

is we get one chance to do this and one chance only.

We need to go out there and we need to kill it.

There's no going back, there's no do overs.

It's one chance and that's it, okay?

So I'm not saying that to scare you,

but that is also the reality of the situation.

And I won't accept anything less than great tonight.

This is all I've wanted

and now that I'm actually here being able to do it,

I'm not gonna waste it.

You have the training,

you have each other's energy together.

You've got this, like go out there, head held high

and be like, yeah, look at what we've got.

Take a big look at us.

This is everything we've rehearsed for.

Make it count for something.

Do not step off that stage and regret it,

I feel like I didn't give enough.

Give it everything you got,

you gotta leave it all on the floor.

Let's give it up for Shapehaus.

♪ Candles all around me ♪

♪ Close the velvet curtain, there's no sound ♪

♪ Yearning for a reason ♪

♪ I just want a chance before the bow ♪

♪ Before it's over ♪

♪ Inject me with your love ♪

♪ Love, love ♪

♪ Inject me with your poison ♪

♪ Infect me with your love ♪

♪ Love, love ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up, I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ Inject me with your love ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up, I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ Inject me with your love ♪

♪ Lights upon the marquee ♪

♪ Letters bleeding out until they fade ♪

♪ Face behind the smoke screen ♪

♪ Burning down the house, my masquerade ♪

♪ Masquerade ♪

♪ Before it's over ♪

♪ I took a vow ♪

♪ Took a vow ♪

♪ With no proposer ♪

♪ Inject me with your love ♪

♪ Love, love ♪

♪ Inject me with your poison ♪

♪ Infect me with your love ♪

♪ Love, love ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up, I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ Inject me with your love ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up, I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ Inject me with your love ♪

♪ Oh-oh ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up, I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up, I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ I'mma soak it up ♪

♪ Inject me with your love ♪

Amazing. Amazing.

Just I felt every single second,

like it's what I call dancing

with every fiber of your being.

Like, you know what I mean,

nothing was off at any given time.

It was just, oh my God, I'm so proud of you guys.

Thank you so much. Amazing.

So exciting. - Yeah.

I was like, on the edge of my seat.

I was like. - Yeah!

No, it was awesome

And you guys did it. You absolutely did it.

You know what I mean?

We couldn't have given any more today.

It's amazing.

We hit it right where we needed to.

So congratulations.

I just need you to know how grateful I am for you guys.

I love you guys so much.

Well done.

I think that we came here wanting to be proud

to represent Australia. - Yeah.

And I feel like off, I don't know everyone else,

but after that I felt like we had done that.

Yeah. - You absolutely have.

I know what I'll do.

Obviously it's been an amazing week for all of us,

but there is an end result

and that is I'm offering one person a contract

to Shapehaus Dance Theatre,

to come to London to join the company

because I could probably take all of you in some capacity.

This person just captured me at the very start of the week

and I haven't been able to get it out of my head.

And I think this person is ready

for this opportunity right now.

And so that person I'm offering a contract to

is Conor.

Yeah!

Conor!

Conor!

I think Conor's a star

and I don't think he realizes that he's a star.

Thank you. - Congratulations.

Thank you you so much. - Congratulations.

Thank you.

This feels like the best thing ever.

I'm grateful and like everything I've learnt from you

is like nothing I've learned before.

Thank you so much. - And I can't wait

to learn more from you.

Well, we can't wait to have you.

Oh my God, thank you.

My body is like shivering.

Like I don't know what, oh my God.

Wait, that's crazy.

Well Shapehaus, here I come.

Yeah!

I spent a lot of my life feeling invisible

and dance actually made me something and it gave me purpose.

There's an aura around certain people.

There's a way that they dance that you can just tell

it comes from a different place.

If I told my younger self I'm leaving the dream,

it wouldn't believe what I was saying.

I feel like now there's hope.

I got here.

I did it.

I think this week I've learned

that like it's okay to not be okay.

Going from the farm to Brent Street to London

is just really surreal.

I don't think I'd ever give up.

I'm in it for the long haul.

It's changed my perspective on how I work in a room.

I've just felt so comfortable

and able to be me in this rehearsals.

Sometimes the industry is so hard and it's so tough.

There's been so many times I've wanted to quit,

but I never expected to be on a stage

with Janet Jackson at 38 years old

but here I am doing it.

For somebody like Emily, part of me is just like,

who is the world to tell you

that you're not gonna do those things?

Failure is not an option for me. Not at all.

It's my life's purpose

and it's all of our life's purpose to keep dancing.

♪ Tell them, I don't care ♪

♪ Care, care, care, care ♪

♪ Care, care, care ♪