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Jay Chou's dance teacher says Jay Chou has a lot of shortcomings with it comes to dancing
by kelvin@multistars - 2nd August 2008Source: Qianlong
Jay Chou's dance teacher Huang Xin Yu (nicknamed Ice cream) accepted an interview yesterday night.
Reporter: Which kind of dance is Jay Chou best suited to?
Ice cream: He's best suited for "Chou style" dancing. All the dances have to work for him, all the moves have to be derived from his own movements, it has to integrate with his music style. Because he's quite impulsive, so the dance has to change depending on his whole style.
Reporter: I hear that when Jay Chou first started dancing his body was not very coordinated?
Ice Cream: At the start every artist has a stage when they are not coordinated, they need to practise. But Jay Chou is a genius type! For other people it's "1 minute onstage, 10 years offstage", he's just the opposite of that. He's the best at last minute stuff, so if you look carefully at his dancing you'll see a lot of shortcomings.
Reporter: The "shortcomings" you talk about, which part?
Ice Cream: For example, one of the basic moves that dancers have to practise is the head, you have to move it forwards, backwards, left and right, until it's flexible, otherwise when you dance you head will sway making it look very weird. But Jay doesn't like this move, so he didn't practise it. The result was that in order to avoid this move, often it leads to the whole dance needing to be changed.
Reporter: Does he have any special demands towards his own dancing?
Ice Cream: It has to look good! This is his only standard. Every time he thinks of a new move he dance it for everyone, after each dance he'll ask "does it look good?", it just has to look good! Haha.
Reporter: Since working with Jay Chou for 5 years, what do you think was the biggest superiority for him to become famous?
Ice Cream: He has especially high demands for himself. Why do people call him "Director Chou", it's because as long as he's OK, then everyone else is OK. He's especially picky when it comes to work, in order for it to look good, he'll do even harder moves. When filming the MV for "Compendium of Materia Medica", there was a single handstand move, he filmed it 30-40 times but still wasn't satisfied, because he has a waist injury, that move resulted in his back illness flaring up....he's just this kind of person.
Reporter: In my impression, that year when he came out singing "Nun-Chuks" he was very active.
Ice Cream: Because he's learned martial arts in the past, he's got the basics of martial arts, you can see this in both the MV for "Nun-Chuks" and "Hua Yuan Chia", he's combined martial arts and dancing, with this martial arts he can make up for his inadequacies in dancing.
Reporter: I hear you've also participated in his movies?
Ice Cream: (Smiles) Not only movies, I've been in MVs. Jay has a habit of pulling people beside him into the camera shot, anyway us friends just accompany him showing off! Haha.
Reporter: When you are not working, what do you guys and Jay Chou do?
Ice Cream: Exercise, play basketball, go shopping.....drive about avoiding the paparazzi. Haha!
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