(Bachata) Musicality hiding inside the bootcamp choreo! Musicality master Pablo breaks it down himself

“Every step you take with your feet lives inside a sound in the music. So it has to be extremely precise.”

Introducing the first part of the choreography as the musicality section, and explaining how footwork relates to the music

“This technique comes from my background. It's Cali style.”

CONTEXTExplaining the straight-line footwork technique in the cross step and pointing to his Cali, Colombia salsa background

“I use this style a lot as material. It connects to where I'm from, and it's a way to express musicality.”

CONTEXTExplaining why he uses the fast footwork of Cali, Colombia salsa as choreography material

“You can do this with just the hips, but bringing in the ribcage makes it bigger — it's a 'visual effect.'”

CONTEXTExplaining why a move using the shoulders and ribcage reads bigger than hips alone

“The bachata feeling is always this. Bittersweet — that's the bachata feeling.”

CONTEXTTurning the lyric's 'binding and releasing' into movement, and defining what makes bachata feel the way it does

“It's a contraction that expresses being bound, and it's one of the signatures of the smooth bachata methodology.”

CONTEXTExpressing the lyric's 'condena' (bondage) as a contraction, and naming the smooth bachata style methodology

“I always feel like a student. The moment you stop being a student, you stop growing.”

Said while explaining why he's been learning urban styles these past few years

“These last two, three years especially, I've been focused on urban styles. It's all a process of widening what my body can do.”

Continuing the student mindset, explaining where his own training has been headed lately

“I wanted to share this fusion feeling with Korean bachateros. You're dancing real bachata and adding fusion on top of it at the same time.”

CONTEXTExplaining why he worked a hip-hop-flavored section into the choreography