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“You should be able to tell the story and the relationships and the feelings through the movement, and the music,” Khan said.”
“It’s Maya and Anjali’s journey.”
““As choreographers, you are normally not integrated into pre-production and designing these scenes.”
“There’s more to Indian culture than Bollywood clichés, after all.”
“The sequences needed to look cool, be executable in only one or two takes as part of the film’s blistering shooting schedule, and thrill both newcomers and devotees to the world of Bollywood fusion dancing.”
“Changes in style or movement (or, sometimes, an overeager fog machine hidden inside a prop tiger) progress the plot and create important changes in the characters’ relationships.”
“Aragones/Netflix “ Our dancers also were phenomenal in pushing for everything every single day.”
““ So when Prashanth and Lena and Hassan are inviting us to be like, ‘Hey, this is the script.”
““We couldn’t just throw scale at every dance and expect it to be compelling,” cinematographer Adam Carboni told IndieWire.”
“‘Best of the Best’ Emily V.”
“Phillip and Makenzie choreographed the sequence using yarn so the dancers knew where each laser would be.”
“Director Lena Khan and her team did just that, partly with some “mighty graphs” on Google Sheets and some “very extensive” PowerPoints.”
“And as we moved through every section of the finale, it all felt like that,” Chbeeb said.”
“The things that we had them doing, they might as well have run a 10K,” Kazi said.”
““Instead, we brainstormed ways to create unexpected moments using optical illusions, hard-rigged camera mounts, mirror reflections, and simple in-camera tricks.”
“It’s UCLA’s journey.”
“It’s very rare,” Dustman told IndieWire.”
“This required deep collaboration between the choreography team and the camera team.”
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“Powered by WordPress.com VIP Best Foot Forward ‘Best of the Best’ Pulls Off the Perfect Heist Through Its Dance Numbers Director Lena Khan; choreographers Phillip Chbeeb, Makenzie Dustman, and Joya Kazi; and DP Adam Carboni tell IndieWire about dances that contain every facet of the characters — just like a diamond stolen by the British.”
“But Khan also wanted a viewer to be able to track the emotional journey of Maya and her best friend Anjali (Priyanka Kedia) through the dances alone.”