rkmiya: ★ DARAE AND MEIQI KTL CHOREOGRAPHY novaentertainment Published June 17, 2020 0:00-5:13 the v

rkmiya:

★ DARAE AND MEIQI KTL CHOREOGRAPHY

novaentertainment

Published June 17, 2020

0:00-5:13

the video starts with darae and meiqi in one of the nova dance studios. the time on the clock reads 9:47 although there’s no distinction to tell if it’s morning or night. meiqi and darae are running through a section of the song which seems to go well but darae pauses, shaking her head. the caption “i messed up” comes on the screen. they run through it again.

this time, it seems that meiqi was a beat ahead darae and they both pause. darae turns to her, held tilted. the audio finally comes in as darae asks meiqi “wait what’s the count?” with a question mark animation appearing above her head and an exclamation point animation appearing up meiqi’s. meiqi calmly says, “i thought the tempo was five-and-six seven eight.” darae chuckles, covering her face. “i thought it was five six seven and eight!” a caption appears on the screen “dancers communicating with their own language….” as they continue to talk about counts, figuring out where they were out of sync.

with a shift in the scene, meiqi and darae are both standing in front of the mirror. to anyone else, it looks like they’re just waving their arms stiffly. to anyone familiar, they’d be able to recognise this style of dance called waacking. darae moves behind meiqi to guide her into the movements. she’s talking as she does although there is a gentle music over as they go over moves. darae claps her hands and motions for her to go. a caption appears saying, “meiqi begin!”

meiqi begins with a count right before the waacking in the choreography. when she brings her hands back, she brings it too far – farther than we’ve seen darae guide her hand not a moment before. she smacks darae in the face. the audio of the room fades in on impact. you can clearly hear the smack and darae drops on the floor, laughing really hard. the scene replays twice more. once at regular speed and the second in slow-mo with a closeup of how darae recoils upon impact. as it returns to normal speed the second time, the screen is covered with
“ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ” all over to match darae’s laughing on the floor.

meiqi doesn’t seem to notice, as she continues to dance for a moment longer before turning and yelling. she crouches down next to darae, yelling “i’m sorry i’m sorry!” but it’s clear that she’s laughing too. darae looks up at her, putting her hands on meiqi. although the younger is insisting, “slap me twice to make up for it.” darae laughs again, instead patting her butt twice before getting up. meiqi whines from the floor, “that’s not what i meant unnieeeeee!” a playful caption appears, saying “bad girl meiqi wants a punishment for her mistake ㅋㅋ”. darae shakes her head. the next scene comes.

meiqi and darae seem more serious as they dance. the audio of the dance isn’t heard but as they transition to another move, two big laughing emojis are slapped over their bodies, effectively censoring the move that they do. although judging by the girls intense and sultry expressions, anyone can put two and two together and come to the conclusion that the move was a little too sexy. the video speeds up 3x speed of the rest of the choreography bit they were practising. it only slows until after a manager comes up and speaks to them before leaving. the manager’s face is blurred.

“too sexy?” meiqi complained with a pout. darae pats her head. “it’s okay,” she says although she’s pouting too. “we’ll edit it.” the image of the two girls moving to edit their choreography fades to black. the black screen splits horizontally, the two halves sliding away to reveal meiqi and darae. they’re dressed in outfits complementary to each other like a true duo. meiqi is standing a bit closer to the camera than darae is, making her more of a center focus as the music finally plays and the girls being to dance.

their moves are in sync, clearly a product of hours of practise of the dance they created themselves. as the chorus starts, they switch places and now darae is in the foreground position while meiqi is a bit back. their expressions are intense. their moves are crisp. they switch their positions again as the song hits its bridge. meiqi gives a smirk to the camera and a quirk of the brow. darae’s smirk mirrored meiqi’s as they dance. they switch once more.

the song picks up as well as their moves. they finish the dance seated next to one another. darae with her head thrown back in the final position and meiqi with her hand in the air, looking directly at the camera. after two beats holding their position they break their dancer personas and cheer. darae claps “we did well!”

the video ends.