Our second meeting with our mentor, Kailey, was very productive and went smoothly. Kailey frequently attends hip-hop dance classes outside of school. She describes her classes there as physically straining, but also a lot of fun. I have a feeling this is what our sessions will be like as we meet with her more. We started out talking to her a little more about the history and background of hip-hop, and she made it clear that there are many sub-genres of hip-hop and it is a very umbrella-like term. The genre she would be teaching us is House because it is the most basic hip-hop dance and the closest to what we described to her as our ideal style. She gave us a few pointers to keep in mind, such as how hip-hop is about hitting the beat and staying controlled while keeping loose and flowing movement throughout the body. After that, she showed us a few warm-ups that she does in her dance class, and really made us sweat by having us repeat her. These warm-ups were everything from sit-to-stand ups, pushing legs up, and yoga. Once we were all warmed up, she delved right into teaching us our first dance move. This move doesn’t have an exact name, but we called it the kick-in back-in since that’s all your legs are doing. It took us a while to really get the gist of it, but once we broke it down and practiced a few times we were ready to move on. We also learned a step-together step slide move, which also describes the movement of the feet. I found it interesting how my partner Gyu min and I have very different ways of learning the moves. For me, adding impulsive arm movements help me to get in the swing of the move, but for him, the arm movements made it more difficult. Though we are starting on very different levels, I am confident that we will be able to groove together by the end of the project. By starting with teaching us the very basics of dance, Kailey is evening out the field and making sure we are fully prepared to move forward before jumping into the final projects. If I were to mentor someone I would make sure they have a solid foundation before diving into the final product. For our next meeting, I am hoping to learn a few new basic moves, and maybe even start learning some small routines.