Usher’s skating sensation took the Super Bowl halftime show by Storm and it came to life. Thanks to one Arkansas native. I’m still a kid from Little Rock. I um the one thing I love about my upbringing is that I kind of have lived in two worlds. My name is Sean Christopher Freeman
And I am a choreographer. Choosing the skate life early has proven to roll out some unique experiences for Sean Christopher. And it all started with humble beginnings. My grandmother stayed around the street from south, from Southwest skating rink. So I used to just walk across the street and skate there.
But my first job I ever had was at Little Rock Skating Arena. We all know it as Arkansas skum or Bowman. Sean Christopher has roller skated figure skated and once was even a professional speed skater. Those wheels allowing him to soar to new heights in a sense,
Merge these two worlds of dance and of skating and basically bringing both of my loves together and it’s created a whole another pathway, a professional career for me. Ok. But the basic step is step step. But where did his love for entertainment? All start. Dad bought me a MC Hammer
And vanilla Ihvhs tape. And I used to watch them every day and I was just in my bedroom, was watching the music videos and I taught myself the choreography. That was the first time I ever danced. But I didn’t take my first dance class until I went to Park View at 15 and
Just changed my life. I know one starting his dancing career. Quite late. Sean Christopher was able to get a taste of dance at Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School. I started dancing with Mr Twe taking ballet, taking jazz, taking modern.
But that was another, there was another side of me where I didn’t get, which was I want to do hip hop. Like I wanted to be in Cisco music video. I wanted to be an insane music video and I saw that just a random day at school walking to the bathroom,
He overheard a Tiffany drum coming from a dance class where Latisha Daniel was filling in teaching. I would never again she was teaching a routine to pinks. I can still, it was most girls, most girls want with them man with me. I still remember it. A match made in heaven.
Uh I will never forget him looking in that window. And you know, can I come in? I was like sure he was so hungry and eager to learn. She really is the first person that saw like something in me as far as with choreography,
She would make up a, a count. And then she said, well, let me see, you make up a, a count. Five years later, Sean Christopher will become a dance instructor in her studio dance dynamics. Um He’s always just been so super respectful and grateful and passing it on,
Which is, you know, what makes me most proud is him passing that on to others. And he continues to do just that for the last nine years, Sean Christopher has been the dance director at a high school in Atlanta, Georgia. Um We are actually getting ready to celebrate our 1/100 year.
Um Booker T was the first school for African Americans in the state of Georgia. Sean Christopher says teaching at the high school has allowed him to expose his students to a new world. 93 percent of the students who enter my program have never taken a dance class before.
What I try to do is give them everything I wish I could have gotten when I first started a dream of his also for his home state, hoping he can open his own performing arts, high school in the future. Talent is here.
They’re amazingly gifted kids here in this state and not just kids, adults as well. And so that’s where I want to be able to, to bring his wish is for everyone no matter where they live or who they are to have an opportunity and
He credits his parents for instilling an important quality in him early, stay ready. So you never have to get ready. I’m a small town kid who um just had dreams of being underneath the lights. And even though, you know, in order to reach those dreams, I had to leave Little Rock.
I don’t think a part of there’s a huge parts of me that have never left the city now teaching stars big and small. 18 count at a time. My job is not how to teach a kid how to be a good dancer to teach them how to be a good person.
And for me, those are the relationships that build our youth. And if I touch one, then I’ve touched 100 in Little Rock. J Taylor. T the 11 news.
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