Fik-Shun: Dance

Dr. Michael Gervais (0:08)

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The guest is most widely known for winning season 10, So You Think You Can Dance. His name is Fiction and he's 20 years old and his story is riveting. The joy that he has in life, he explains and expresses through his music. And what he also explains is that when he was younger, he couldn't afford traditional coaching, dance coaching. So he figured out a completely organic way to relate to music. And I'll explain that in a minute. He shares his journey in this conversation toward mastery and what he's hungry for in life, how he trains, and this is the part, how he feels music. So this is fascinating.

It was something that I've never heard before. He associates different parts of his body with different parts of music. He explains that when he feels the bass track in a song, that he expresses it through moving his chest and his hips. And when he hears piano or keyboards, those instruments that he expresses that through moving his fingers. And when he hears strings in songs, he uses his arms to capture that expression. And that's all his. That's likely not taught in formal instruction. And this is part of that creative process that takes place for people that have a different path and are hungry towards understanding something deeply. I think, I hope that you'll be intrigued by how good he is at becoming present and how he purposefully doesn't choreograph his routines. Well, at least all of them, when he's on stage, which forces him, in his words, to feel the music and to get lost in the music. And then that is where he talks about being able to express himself through movement. So, and this conversation was obviously something that was spur of the moment. You'll hear in the context of how this conversation came to be. But I also want to make a footnote is that in the background, you'll hear a bunch of noise. And we were sitting at a table and he was sliding a drink back and forth between his hands. And I had no idea that this would come through on the mic. So bear with me, bear with us on this. I'm definitely on a learning curve. I'm loving it. So let's just jump right in and get into the path that led him to now and understand where he wants to go and the framework that he's using to be able to explore mastery in his own life. So one of the things that maybe folks that are not familiar with you is that I want to just do a little bit of background about who you are and then open up a conversation about what you're pursuing in life. Just have a conversation about that.