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Please welcome 10-year-old hip-hop dancer Alyson Stoner.
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[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
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[MUSIC PLAYING]
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I'm still trying.
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I'm still trying.
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Congratulations on the video, best video of the year.
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Yes.
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That was very exciting.
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[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
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I'll bet it was.
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Yes, it was.
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It was.
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And so they brought you up on stage,
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and you were with Missy and all of her glam crew.
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Yeah.
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The director actually helped me up.
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And I was like, oh my gosh, I'm actually onstage,
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actually with Missy Elliott.
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I know.
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He was holding like Emmanuel Lewis or something.
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You were being held up like a little puppet.
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I was waiting for you to start talking.
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Fall.
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Yeah, or fall, yeah.
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But that must've been exciting to be there.
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Oh, yeah.
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And so you met Justin Timberlake.
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I did.
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Wasn't that exciting?
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Yes.
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He actually leaned over, and he told me-- he goes, one day,
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Alyson--
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or he didn't say my name.
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But--
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[LAUGHTER]
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Go ahead, embellish.
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That's good.
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Embellish the story.
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He said my name.
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He said, one day, Alyson, one day
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that's going to be you up there.
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And I was like, oh, I hope.
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I can't wait to get up there.
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And then just an hour later he was right.
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[LAUGHTER]
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He's psychic, I'll tell you.
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So teach me whatever you can, because I'm always
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trying to get hip.
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Oh, OK.
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[LAUGHTER]
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So to get hip--
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Yes.
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--you will need to wear one of these.
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Oh.
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All righty then.
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[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]
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Just like mine.
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Come on.
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[LAUGHTER]
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That works for you.
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It's A-OK.
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[LAUGHTER]
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I don't know.
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I don't have a mirror.
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Just, let's go.
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OK.
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So the first move I'm teaching you is the Harlem Shake.
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Right.
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And you shake your shoulders.
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And then you pull up.
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Pull up.
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I just did.
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Do it again?
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[LAUGHTER]
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And then shake again.
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[LAUGHS]
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Don't laugh at me when you're teaching.
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[LAUGHTER]
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I'm feeling hip already.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Go ahead.
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So you're shaking, and then you pull up.
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Yeah.
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Uh-huh.
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And then to get real hip--
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Uh-huh.
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[LAUGHS] Don't mock me.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Yeah?
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You dust it off.
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Oh, I know how to dust it off.
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Dust it off, yeah, So add that.
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Yeah.
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And then dust it off.
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Oh, OK.
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Did I dust it too soon?
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[LAUGHTER]
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Well--
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And you just keep your legs completely
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still while you're on the dance floor like that?
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Well, you can go like that, but hip hop
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is fun because you have your own style to it.
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Right.
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So OK, then let me just try to see your style.
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Go ahead and do what you do.
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Well, like another step I'll show you is--
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OK.
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OK?
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[LAUGHTER]
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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[LAUGHTER]
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But another step--
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We're trying to be patient and understanding today.
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I know I'm old, but go.
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OK.
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So in the video, I do the little dance that
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was choreographed by High Hat.
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High Hat, sure.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Old buds, right?
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Don't forget to smile.
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Well, I never see anybody smile.
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And they're all angry.
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Well, if you--
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[LAUGHTER]
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If you mess up, they don't really pay attention
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to all of the body movements.
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They pay attention to your face.
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All right.
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So you can go, hi--
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All right.
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So take your two hands, arms, and you press forward.
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Yeah, that's the move I like that you do.
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OK, and then the legs go like the twist.
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And when you're going like that, it goes out or in?
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[LAUGHTER]
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You're doing great.
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[LAUGHTER]
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[APPLAUSE]
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Well, thank you.
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So you're going the same direction.
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So when you go in with your legs,
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your arm goes in like that.
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And then you do three, and then you pull forward.
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Uh-huh.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Forward, then switch legs.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Pull forward, and then switch legs.
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And do it again.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Come on!
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Other arm.
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Other way.
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[LAUGHTER]
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Yes.
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Now pull forward.
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[LAUGHTER]
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[APPLAUSE]
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I feel like I'm the Karate Kid right now.
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[LAUGHTER]
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All right, let's have some music.
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Let's put this together.
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[HIP-HOP MUSIC PLAYING]
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Harlem Shake.
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(SINGING) [INAUDIBLE].
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Yeah, and then the six step.
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[CHEERING]
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Get with me now, six step.
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(SINGING) [INAUDIBLE] flip it, reverse it.
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[INAUDIBLE]
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To the rhythm!
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[CHEERING]
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Ah!
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[APPLAUSE]
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Now you hold my legs up now.
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[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]