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Cues into Deca Choreos

Johnny B Goode ("Back to the Future")

Note

in the "slow" version, the swing part starts at ~0:19 actual.

The end of the song: 2:15 actual; or maybe 2:11.

Carmen

pre-index Index What?
~0:18 ~0:25 …slow boat to China…
~0:37 ~0:42 …we come from the jungle…
~0:55
…and back!
girl looks at guy; right before pick pocket happens
~1:04 Putting the "Miss" in misdemeanor.
~1:10 1:17 The start of the algorithm march.
~1:17 1:24 Owa-hu!
~1:34 ~1:41 The first “the warrant!
~2:05 ~2:12 Monday through Friday at five!”
~2:23 ~2:30 Beginning of the end of the guys solo at the end of the piece (with the clapping).

Everything is Awesome:

~0:09 “everything is better when we stick together”

~0:29 “live in har-mo-ny … everything is awesome! (jumping jacks)” (~0:31 if Mike wants the “Everything is Awesome!” before that.)

~0:38 for the second bit of this section?

~0:47, start at ~0:42 - 3,2,1,go lost my job it’s a new opportunity more free time for my awesome community

~1:04 “it’s awesome to lose!”

~1:15 for “I’m like you, you’re like me”

~1:20 right before the (instrumental) “boom boom paaa” / choreo = hand hand push body up, head shoulders body, step step elbow

~1:34 blue skies, bouncy springs!

~2:00 doo doo doo doo doo doo evandance

I Do

~1:03 Top of the swing.

~1:31 just after the “house a family”

~1:50 second weird Merry lindy thing.

I'm Too Sexy

0:00 Intro section ~0:10 Music kicks in

Killing Me Softly

0:00 | Intro section
(^ 14 bar? Seriously? Who does that?)

~0:31 Why is she touching me? ~1:32 "Woosh", lyrical section begins. ~2:01 Second Rumba section

Love the Way You Lie

pre-index Index What?
~0:29 ~0:45 right in the middle of the waltzy bit? ~ the girls solo?
~1:07   ~ the guys solo?
~1:30   "I'm leaving you — no you ain't"
~2:23 ~2:30 The start of the weird lindy-ish thing.

Make a move:

pre-index Index What?
~0:35 ~0:43
Hustle 1A
Partner dance start
~0:44 ~0:52 First cha-cha: backward/forward walks
~0:52 ~0:59 Hustle 1B
~1:02? ??? Second cha-cha: first section of traveling crossover breaks
~1:14
tail end of the lyrics “I'm rea-dy… [silence]
(dancers are “prancing” here)
1:17
Now! I'm givin’ sexy-uh
(windshield wipers, then salsa…)
1:21
end of “whole new name” which is the dip before the “salsa”
(Note: this whole line might be a lie.)
~1:27 ~1:34
Hustle 2 (?)
start of two-handed "windmill" thing
??? The “helicopter” (twisting under each others’ arms while hustling.)
~1:44 Third cha-cha: the “mimosa”; second section of traveling crossover breaks.
~1:53 The “piano bar”
~2:03 ~2:08 Matrix butt rolls
~2:24 ladies lean into leads.

Say Something

pre-index Index What?
~0:30? Waltz part 1
~0:40 ~0:4? Spinny group thing part 1
~1:04 ~1:11 Spinny group thing part 2
~1:32 Spinny hug thing / Swan Dive?
~1:39 Waltz part 2
~2:02 Ballerina figurine thing

Squeezebox

pre-index Index What?
0:07 0:15 Box formation begins.
1:40 ?:?? Grab hands and spin.
N/A 0:00 Hip Hop I
~0:30 0:37 Cha-cha start
~0:47 0:53 Arms out thing
1:07
leg extension thing
Music doing the "oooooh"
~1:08 1:15 Hip Hop II
~1:24 ~1:31 Moonwalk
~1:40 1:46 Airy section near end
~?:?? ~2:01 Picks up again for Cha-cha

Thousand Years

pre-index Index What?
~1:42 ~1:49 Beginning of the second Redowa

Turn Me On

pre-index Index What?
N/A 0:00 Hip Hop I
~0:30 0:37 Cha-cha start
~0:47 0:53 Arms out thing
1:07
leg extension thing
Music doing the "oooooh"
~1:08 1:15 Hip Hop II
~1:24 ~1:31 Moonwalk
~1:40 1:46 Airy section near end
~?:?? ~2:01 Picks up again for Cha-cha

Note

Dan calls ~2:17 the "last cha-cha" :-)

Note

In the "_slowed" version, choreo starts at actual ~0:58 1:16 actual: music pickup 1:20 actual: more stuff 1:33 actual: the cha cha;

(music fade out briefly then back to steady beat)

Map (of full song; Choreo starts at ~45s-ish actual):

~0:00 actual: noodly do do do da do intro

~0:15 actual: beat pick up; simple melody
~0:30 actual: (building) stronger lyrics, other voices pick up
   (^ 16 bar)

~0:44 actual: ooooohhhhhh section
   (^ ~4 bar, but I think she kills a bar somewhere)


~0:52 actual: music pick up (high voices + nikki mostly)
~1:08 actual: music really picks up (+ techno beat)
   (^ 16 bar)
~1:23 actual: quick die down
   (^ 1 bar)
~1:25 actual: music had died down, but picks up again with a quieter melody, but stronger beat
~1:39 actual: (building)
   (^ 16 bar)
~1:55 actual: ooooohhhhhh II

(NOTE: quick die down to oooooohhhh II == 16 bars)

~2:02 actual: chorus/music pickup, little beat
~2:18 actual: + techno beat
   (^ 16 bar)
~2:33 actual: airy section (< 8 bar) (a bridge, you might say?)
~2:47 actual: nikki raps (< 8 bar)
~3:02 actual: full set to end, I think (only about ~20s) (< did I mention 8 bar)

~3:30 actual: bottom
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