BRIAN FRIEDMAN - X FACTOR

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🗓️ 20 November 2016

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Brian Friedman is an American dancer and choreographer who has created the choreography for many popular music artists including Britney Spears, Cher, Beyoncé Knowles, and Mariah Carey – as well as for music videos, concert tours, and television productions including The X Factor.

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Chapters:

00:00 Trailer.
02:28 Brian’s thoughts on the episode.
05:06 Brian’s Introduction.
05:35 Brian Friedman’s motivation.
07:04 The stress factors of X Factor.
09:34 Putting on a show and working with X Factor contestants.
13:08 No one is unaffected by dance.
15:47 The power of the dance video supporting a song.
17:49 Anything that moves can be choreography.
20:05 Where Brian gains inspiration for keeping his choreography fresh.
21:26 The correlation between fashion, choreography and dance.
24:49 Brian’s fashion label.
26:14 A dancer’s personality.
27:46 Why he had to stop partying to 4am.
29:59 Loving teaching class and giving masterclasses.
32:12 The feelings dance can evoke.
32:59 Why he is currently tired of choreography.
35:04 Dancers are sexual beings and choreography can be sensual.
36:52 The Black Swan concept, getting an artist to emotionally relate.
41:14 Brian’s notorious stare.
42:10 Why Brian initially wanted to get into choreography.
43:43 The driving force behind his journey from Arizona to working in London.
44:45 Why he loves London.
47:28 Managing to live in Los Angeles without going crazy.
48:27 The hell of being in the jungle.
53:31 Brian loves being a judge, he has a lot to say!
56:09 What Brian thinks of various celebrities he has worked with.
1:03:08 How Brian came to work with so many famous artists.
1:04:54 Spotting a diamond in the rough in his classes.
1:06:32 The life changing moment when he came out to his Mom.
1:11:00 Will Brian marry his fiancé?
1:12:21 His advice to young people struggling with their sexuality.
1:13:06 Success secrets.
1:13:38 Phone call to the 20 year old Brian Friedman.
1:14:15 Best advice he has ever received.
1:15:20 Advice to the young would be dancer, choreographer or pop star.
1:16:37 Starting an online mentoring programme and future exciting possibilities.
1:18:04 Brian’s summing up.

Show Notes:

Brian Friedman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianfriedman

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Dance I think is happiness and joy.
0:08.0	No one is not affected by dance when they see it.
0:16.0	It provokes emotions, whether they're sad, whether they're happy, whether they make you feel sexy. It takes you on a journey and that's what drew me to dance when I was a kid.
0:26.0	I just loved it. It was a connection. It was an immediate connection. I got in that dance studio, I was moving my body, it
0:36.7	felt right, it became my way of expressing my emotions.
0:51.0	Teaching, inspiring, educating, and on the other side of it there is performing emotional release and those classes those are my therapy.
0:52.6	Oh.
0:53.6	Oh.
0:54.6	It's our job to make it entertaining.
1:00.8	No one wants to tune in and have 30% of the show that's just kind of okay.
1:06.0	When I see a student in my class, when you just see that hunger and that drive and you see the
1:14.6	potential. I guess that means I've been around a while when my students are now
1:19.0	choreographers and directors themselves, but that's I think the most fulfilling thing about that aspect
1:24.4	is seeing my journey in them. Oh, You're going to be. I'm going to Oh, This week on the show we have Brian Friedman who is a director, choreographer, and dancer.
2:35.0	He's worked with such people like Michael Jackson, Brittany Spears, and Beyonce.
2:39.6	And right now he is the creative director for the X Factor,
2:43.4	which means that every seven days,
2:45.3	he is putting on huge shows, huge dance routines,
2:48.8	sometimes with people that don't even know
2:50.6	the basics of the arts, and Brian is such an intense guy he's a
2:54.3	fellow American and I love the way that he approaches life because that's with
2:58.3	perfection he wants everything to be right and he's not as afraid to do big things he's got his own dance practice
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