After dividing the things, Xiao Yao went to Cheng Xi and Zhou Jingyi's dance practice room under the leadership of Chen Sheng.

Cheng Xi's dance practice room is relatively close to Sun Tingting's dance practice room, and Xiao Yao went to Cheng Xi's side first.

This show is called "Dancing with the Stars", which has the same name as a program that Xiao Yao knew in his previous life, but the competition system is not the same. In comparison, this show is more like the season of "Dance Forest Battle" when stars and professional dancers collaborated in the previous life.

In this program, the program team provides professional dancers as partners to the celebrity guests, and also provides choreographers and dance instructors for each pair. In addition, if the dance is required, the program team will also provide a dance group to accompany the dance.

Among them, professional dancers are also contestants in this show. The content recorded in the first episode of the show is the assessment of star contestants and the mutual selection and pairing with professional dancers. Once decided, the professional dancer partner cannot be replaced. But in terms of choreographers, dance teachers and dance groups, stars also have a certain degree of autonomy, and they don't necessarily have to use the people provided by the program team.

Among the celebrity guests are singers, singers have concerts, and concerts often have performances that require dancing. Some singers have their own dance teams, their own choreographers and instructors, some do not have dance teams, and some have more cooperation and are more familiar with dance teachers and dance teams. This show doesn't give the stars a long time to practice dancing, so naturally the more familiar people are, the more convenient it is to cooperate. For the sake of the stage performance, the program team allows the participating stars to bring their own dance teams to participate in the show.

The performance stage at the concert is different from the performance stage of dance variety shows. The choreographers provided by the program group must consider the choreography with the stage effect on the variety show when choreographing, and many of these choreographers are not choreographers who are doing this show for the first time, and they are also better at this aspect, so even if a star brings his choreographer over, he will not refuse the choreographer provided by the program team, but let the two work together to choreograph. On the one hand, he is more familiar with the stage of the show, and on the other hand, he is more familiar with the technical ability of the stars, which can be regarded as showing his strengths.

In the case of the dance group, the situation is different. Behind the scenes, more people can discuss and design dance moves, but the stage is so big that it is impossible to get too many people to come up and do the dance group. Therefore, if a star uses someone from his own dance team as a dance group for backup dance, he does not need the dance group provided by the program team.

Although Cheng Xi is not a singer and has never held a concert, she used to be a member of the dance team and has her own dance team. When she came to participate in the show, she naturally used people from the Dawn Dance Troupe as dance group dancers.

Xiao Yao knew that Cheng Xi would take the Dawn Dance Troupe to the show as a dance group, but after entering Cheng Xi's dance studio, he only saw Cheng Xi and his partner and a choreographer, but did not see anyone from the Dawn Dance Troupe. Thinking that there were no backup dancers in Sun Tingting's practice room, Xiao Yao guessed that it might be that the dance types and themes of the first round of the show were not suitable for group dance.

But fortunately, the people from the dance troupe are not there, otherwise the things carried by Xiao Yao in the plastic bag may not be enough for a bottle of drink.

For Xiao Yao's arrival, Cheng Xi was of course very happy. After introducing Xiao Yao to her partner and choreographer, she also paused to rest and pulled Xiao Yao to chat.

Xiao Yao's first time showing his choreographic ability was in the Dawn Dance Troupe. Cheng Xi is very clear about Xiao Yao's ability in choreography, and when he met it this time, he naturally didn't want to let it go easily. After briefly chatting about the recent situation and caring about the filming progress of Xiao Yao's drama, Cheng Xi began to make requests to Xiao Yao.

"Since you're here, I'll help you take a look. Cheng Xi said to Xiao Yao, "I'll dance our choreographed dance for you in a while, you give me some advice before leaving!"

"The program team has found such a professional choreographer for you, where do you need me?" Xiao Yao said with a smile.

"The choreographer is the choreographer, you are you!" Cheng Xi said, "According to the rules of the program, we can ask our own choreographer for help." When our dance company applied for your studio to sign a contract with the dance company, you choreographed it for us, so you can help me come up with some ideas. I'm not asking you to choreograph a whole dance for us, or I'm asking you to take a look at it and give some suggestions. ”

"Don't do it!" Xiao Yao shook his head resolutely, pointed to the camera in the dance studio, and said, "In this show, you and Duo'er are competitors. I'll choreograph it for you, and I'm going to kneel on the keyboard when I get home after the show airs!"

"Haha~ Kneeling on the keyboard, is Duo'er that powerful?" Cheng Xi laughed happily, "I really can't imagine what that looks like!"

"Whether you want to kneel on the keyboard or not, you can't do this kind of thing!" Xiao Yao said.

"Okay, then forget it, I won't embarrass you!" After laughing, Cheng Xi said to Xiao Yao again.

"But if you want to talk about suggestions, I may really have them!" Xiao Yao said suddenly.

"Hmm, what?" asked Cheng Xi.

"What's the matter with the injury on your foot?" Xiao Yao looked down at Cheng Xi's foot.

When Cheng Xi was in the dance company, he was good at modern dance and other academic dances, and he was used to dancing barefoot. The practice room is not only with wooden floors, but also with mats, and the dance she is practicing now is a modern dance, and she is also practicing barefoot at this time. Not only did she not wear shoes, but she also did not wear socks, and not long after Xiao Yao came in, she noticed that Cheng Xi had obvious scars on her feet.

"Oh, this!" Cheng Xi said indifferently, "I haven't danced for a long time, and after I decided to participate in this show, I trained myself for a while to recover." At that time, I practiced a little hard and got a little injured. But it's all skin trauma, and it's not a big deal. ”

"I can see that it doesn't affect your movements. Xiao Yao nodded, and then asked, "When you play tomorrow, are you going to perform like this?"

"Is there any problem?" Cheng Xi didn't quite understand.

"There's a problem!" Xiao Yao nodded and said solemnly, "Before performing on stage, it's best to deal with these scars!"

"Deal with it?" Cheng Xi looked at Xiao Yao and said.

"I know that these bruises and scars are not healed in a day or two," Xiao Yao said, "I mean either apply powder, wear socks, or in short, cover them up when dancing on stage, so that the judges and the audience don't see it." ”

"Why?" Cheng Xi said puzzledly, "I remember when I was filming "The Tuner", I didn't have any injuries on my feet, and you had to do special effects to make scars on my feet." I have real scars, why don't I let them be seen?"

"Sister, it's different!" Xiao Yao said, "The scene where you danced in that short film, the character is in your own home, that is, in private, of course, there is no need to cover up those injuries, but from these scars, it can be reflected that the character is a very hard-working dancer." But what is the stage? that's where the performance is presented, not by a pair of injured feet to tell people how hard the actor has worked. On stage, a pair of scarred feet will only ruin the beauty of the performance! If you meet a more serious judge, you can be so scared that you can't even speak on the spot!"

"Hmm!" Cheng Xi thought for a moment and nodded.

"This is not the arrangement of the program team or the idea that your agent gave you after discussing with the program team, right?" Xiao Yao looked at the camera in the dance studio, covered his mouth and whispered.

Cheng Xi wants to practice dancing, it is inconvenient to hang a microphone on his body, and the dance practice is indoors, so the program team uses a microphone placed in the dance practice room to collect sound when following the filming, and does not require Cheng Xi to hang a lapel microphone on his body. When Xiao Yao came to visit the class this time, most of the scope of activities was also indoors, and the program team arranged a camera with a microphone to radio, and did not require Xiao Yao to hang a microphone on him, so Xiao Yao covered his mouth and whispered, and the program team couldn't receive the sound, at least it wasn't clear.

"What do you want?" Cheng Xi smiled, "I'm an actor now, not a dancer, and I won't deliberately hurt myself in order to set up that kind of character! I really accidentally injured myself while practicing, and after the agent saw it, he proposed to the program team that I should be like this when I performed, and the program team thought it was a highlight, so I agreed!"

"This is indeed a highlight, of course the program team agreed, anyway, it was you who was scolded at that time. It's good that they didn't take the initiative to let you deliberately get a little hurt for the sake of the show!" Xiao Yao said, "I can only say that your agent..."

"Forget it, don't talk about it," Xiao Yao waved his hand, "The agent of my studio, I can't say anything! And her starting point is also for your attention, I hope you will participate in the show to have a topic and popularity." ”

"Then who am I listening to?" Cheng Xi looked at Xiao Yao and said.

"I said that I just made suggestions, who are you willing to listen to!" Xiao Yao said, "On the one hand, the topic is hot, and on the other hand, the conduct, you choose!"

"Hey, you're too irresponsible, aren't you?" Cheng Xi said dissatisfiedly.

"If you really don't have a good choice, you can call and ask my mother!" Xiao Yao said, "She's your boss, I'm not!"

"Ha!" Cheng Xi laughed, "If I say that you made a suggestion, Sister Jiaying will definitely let me listen to you!"

"That's what my mom made you do that, and it has nothing to do with me!" Xiao Yao shrugged, "I'm just suggesting!"

After making this suggestion, Xiao Yao felt that it was almost over, so he said goodbye to Cheng Xi and said, "Okay, that's all there is to say." Don't bother you to practice, I'm leaving. Come on!"

"Are you in a hurry to go to Duo'er?" Cheng Xi smiled, "You go, don't pester you!"

"I've been there, and the first thing I've done here is to go to her. Xiao Yao smiled, "You are the second, I still have to go to Jin to have a look." ”

"Yo, I'm second, I'm a little flattered!" Cheng Xi smiled.

"You think too much!" Xiao Yao smiled, "You and Jin have the same status in my heart, but your dance studio is closer to Duo'er's dance studio." ”

"I'm engaged to Duo'er, and I don't even want to say nice things!" Cheng Xi scolded with a smile, "Get out!"

"Then I'm leaving!" Xiao Yao took two steps and turned back again, "By the way, I almost forgot, don't be in a hurry to leave after practicing, let's have a meal together!"

"You don't want to be a two-person world with Duo'er?" asked Cheng Xi.

"Duo'er ordered!" Xiao Yao said, "Let me call you and Jin, and eat together after the practice, I'll treat you!"

"You won't really become a wife slave, right?" Cheng Xi smiled and shook his head, "Okay! I'm done practicing, I'll go to Duo'er's dance studio to find you!"

After leaving Cheng Xi's dance studio, Xiao Yao went to Zhou Jingyi's dance studio.

When she saw Xiao Yao, Zhou Jingyi screamed and rushed up to give Xiao Yao a hug. This kind of performance is much more enthusiastic and excited than when Cheng Xi saw Xiao Yao, and it is almost comparable to Sun Tingting when she met Xiao Yao. However, the media has never exposed the scandal between Xiao Yao and Zhou Jingyi, and everyone in the program team knows that Zhou Jingyi is actually an American, and they all think that this is just Zhou Jingyi, an American girl, who is more outgoing and enthusiastic, but they are not too surprised.

Zhou Jingyi introduced her dance partner and choreographer to Xiao Yao, and after a brief greeting between the two parties, she also pulled Xiao Yao and the two of them to chat alone.

Xiao Yao also choreographed Zhou Jingyi's Riptide Dance Troupe back then, and even participated in the competition as one of them, Zhou Jingyi is also very clear about Xiao Yao's ability in dance. However, Zhou Jingyi did not ask Xiao Yao to stay and watch her dance like Cheng Xi and give her advice on dance, but asked Xiao Yao's opinion on other matters.

After a brief greeting, Zhou Jingyi asked Xiao Yao, "Yang, what do you think I called Paul and TJ to choreograph together?"

"Yes," Xiao Yao nodded, "as long as they are willing to come, there should be no problem." They have participated in this show, which proves that their choreographic ability is suitable for this show, and the program team should be very welcome!"

"Okay, then I'll contact them when I go back tonight!" Zhou Jingyi said happily, "By the way, the first round of the competition will not use the dance group, but I heard that the second round of the competition may use the dance group, if you can, you can let them bring the dance group with them." ”

"What?Dancing Group?" Xiao Yao said.

"Yes!" Zhou Jingyi said, "This show can not only find its own choreographer, but also bring its own dance troupe." Our Riptide Dance Company has already dispersed, but TJ and Paul's studio have a lot of great dancers, and they might be able to bring some people over to be my dance group. ”

"If you're asking for my opinion," Xiao Yao said, "I don't recommend you to do that!"

"Why?" Zhou Jingyi said, "I heard that Cheng Xi brought her dance troupe to the show to be a dance group." I've been to Paul and TJ's studio many times and danced with the dancers. For me, although they are not as good as the old men of the torrent, they are at least more familiar with the dance group provided by the program team, and they must be more tacit in cooperation. ”

"But among those people, there are not a few Chinese, not even Asians, right?" Xiao Yao said.

"Is this a problem?" asked Zhou Jingyi.

"I think so!" Xiao Yao nodded, "Jin, you are participating in a competition program in Huaxia. Although you are not of mixed race, look no different from Chinese people, and can communicate with people in Chinese, you speak Chinese with an accent and have a darker skin tone than most Chinese girls, which reminds everyone that you are a foreigner. ”

"What are you talking about?" Zhou Jingyi said puzzled, "Can't Americans participate in the competition program in China?"

"Of course not," Xiao Yao shook his head and said, "There are not many foreigners participating in Chinese programs, and the audience will find it very novel and fresh." And you are Chinese, there is another advantage, that is, the audience will have a sense of intimacy when they look at it. If a Chinese star finds a group of foreign dancers to dance together, the audience will feel very powerful and international. But you're not, you're Chinese-American! It's normal for you to find foreign dancers to be a dance group, nothing special, it doesn't look like you're very good, but the audience will remember that you are also a foreigner from the fact that you are looking for foreign dancers to dance in a group, and make them feel distant from you. ”

"So?" Zhou Jingyi asked.

"You know, part of the results come from the votes of the audience, and the perception of the audience is important. I don't think it's good for your performance. Xiao Yao said, "So, I suggest that you still use the Chinese dancers provided to you by the program team as a dance group." ”

"Is there no problem for TJ and Paul to choreograph me?" Zhou Jingyi asked again.

"The choreography is behind the scenes, and I don't think there's anything wrong with Paul and TJ having been to the show before and choreographed for other Chinese stars. Xiao Yao said.

"It's just my suggestion, it's up to you to decide!" Xiao Yao saw that Zhou Jingyi was a little hesitant, and finally said.