A Duet with Lucy Sydel

One of my favorite dancer friends, Lucy Sydel, and I, collaborated on a duet to this song we love. Dedicated to Professor Aretha Aoki. Thank you Lucy for creating the video choreography!

If you are interested in looking at more of her amazing work, check out Dance Indoors on Instagram.

To see my full explorations of this song and the sunny corner, see this blog post: https://luciadancing.blogspot.com/2020/03/sunny-corner-by-stereo.html


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