BLACKPINK choreographer breaks down HOW YOU LIKE THAT, PINK VENOM & more performances | Kpop 101

BLACKPINK choreographer breaks down HOW YOU LIKE THAT, PINK VENOM & more performances | Kpop 101

[Music] Hey, I’m Kyle Tuton and today we’re diving into some of the biggest Blackpink performances that I have been a part of choreographing. From viral music videos to unforgettable Coachella stages, I’m going to take you behind the moves, the process, and maybe share a few stories that fans haven’t heard before. Yeah. Typer girl. Okay. So, this is Coachella 2023 Blackpink with a headliners and I was the creative director, choreographer, and then also jumped in at the last second as a dancer. What I loved about Coachella was that we could do more than Blackpink had done before and really using set pieces and props and costumeuming in a different way. So, we have this little Broadway light number, if you will. Feather fans. Super effective on stage. Maybe a little silly of an idea to do in the middle of the desert when it’s windy, but we were ambitious. And it paid off because so many fans love this performance. About 10 minutes before we went on stage for Typer Girl, one of the stage hands comes running up to me and said, “Kyle, we can’t find two of the 24 fans. Each guy has two a fan in each hand. So being the leader that I was being, I looked at my opposite um a dancer called Michael Ramos and I was like, we have to do we have to do this with one fan. So we’re kind of you can see through the performance just actively looking at each other and making sure that we’re doing the same thing because we have a whole fan missing and we have to make it inconspicuous. The performance that I was inspired by for this, I’m a huge huge girl group fan. My first love was the Spice Girls and then my second love and ultimately my biggest love is a UK girl group called Girls Allowed. I have a tattoo. I’m the big fan. I’ve seen all the concerts. They did an iconic performance at the Brits in 2009 with Pink Feather fans and it was for their song The Promise and they won a Brit for it and it was huge and I think that was such a big moment for me that I wanted to pay tribute in a way by alluding to and honoring to them in this performance. Great job, girls. Pretty Savage, also from Coachella. This is one of my favorite songs of Blackpink. And I think it’s kind of the quintessential Blackpink formula of a song. The girls only had three to five rehearsal days for Coachella. So, it was about taking the set list that they had from their existing tour, changing what I could to make it look as different and as impactful as possible while not changing too much. So, I had to look at a piece like Pretty Savage, change bits of choreography to make it fun and fresh while also not making it so much for the girls to relearn. Using the steps and using the staging, I think was a really fun way to freshen this piece up. They just have that attitude. It’s fierce, but it’s feminine. And so I think a song like this is so exciting. Here we have the girls coming out onto the runway for the first time. When you’re building a show, the use of a bestage and a runway is important. So at what moment are we going to bring the energy out into the audience? And here I thought it was fun to do for a cheer dance. Again, another fun visual element that the girls hadn’t done before. So this was super fun to do for Pretty Savage. Wrapping up our Coachella section. Some fun facts. I as the creative director obviously got to speak with the girls and discuss in length about what we wanted to do. We did explore the idea of guest acts but I think for a group like Blackpink who are so iconic and so representative of a girl group I only wanted to explore that if it was someone equally as iconic. Someone that we definitely explored looking into was the Spice Girls. I as my little British boy girl group stand heart. I think it would have been obviously incredible and iconic if the Spice Girls came out. One of the biggest girl groups of all time to come out with an equally as big girl group. Would have been epic, but ultimately we decided that Blackpink didn’t need any guest act and they could hold down the stage by themselves. So that’s a that’s a dream for for another time. Look at me. How you like that? So this is how you like that. The dance performance video. Blackpink are such a a force, such an enigma that you could show them a dance performance video and someone would become just as obsessed as if you were to show them a music video. This is one of my favorite pieces. I think it’s so strong, structured, and also plays with so so many fun choreographic elements. And I think this is at the height of the Blackpink explosion. that was kind of happening in the west. They’d been building up to it. Did a do was a hit obviously. Kill this love was such a hit. They did Coachella in 2019. So this was a big anticipated comeback as well as it being in the middle of co. So it was a big opportunity I think for them to shine and people really latched on to this song. K-pop and dance in K-pop has evolved incredibly over the last 1015 years and I think this is a good example of where it was 5 years ago. I think a lot of the time the boy groups, they’re known for being super energetic and the the girls used to be a little more subtle, but I think this is a a video that shows the girls can do it just as good as the boys. This is the ending breakdown. We have a few catwalks in there and then some floor work. I think a few people had some bruised knees, but um it was worth it. I don’t think we’ done a floor break before, so I wanted to go all in and they killed it. Taste that pinkenom. This is pink venom. And this is actually downstairs in the studios at YG. K-pop works in a way where their schedules are so busy and so intense that they kind of create the piece and then the piece works for everything. The music video, the TV show stages, and a lot of the time it’s also used on tour. So you kind of have to make a one piece fits all thing. Pink Venom had four choreographers, myself, Sienna Lauo, Taran Chung, and Lee Jung Lee, who are all great, respected, awarded choreographers in their own right. In this part, there’s a kind of uh West Coast beat behind it. We go a little bit more hip-hop. The girls obviously have that kind of training. We did training with the girls a decade ago when they were trainees at YG and I think the emphasis was a more hip-hop vibe. So we did a lot of that kind of style of training so they’re able to sit into it kind of naturally. Big ending dance break. It’s fun. It’s energetic. It’s Pink Venom. That’s why that’s why people love it. So after that dance practice video, Pink Venom was the piece of choreography that ultimately we won a VMA for for best choreography. So, myself and the other three choreographers, the girls also performed at the VMAs. Taylor Swift was dancing to it and it was on um her playlists for her shows. It was a really big hit and probably hopefully led to um us being the contender for the headliner at Coachella and kept leading the way into that big moment for them. So, this is Earthquake by Ji Su. The girls obviously have been doing their own solo projects before coming back together for their tour. That’s kind of what I love about K-pop is that you don’t have to break up a group to explore your own avenues. This is a really fun one. This was Jizu’s first solo song solo, if you will. Um, under her own company, Blissu. I was actually on this shoot. This was at like I want to say 4 a.m. 4:30 in the morning. We’d shot the music video and then it was time for the dance performance video. So, we had our own set for this. Choreographers for this were myself and Connie. I was the performance director, so I was kind of putting everything together. You can see me there off Jesus’s right shoulder. I really enjoyed the avenue that Jesu went down musically. I think it suited her perfectly. There’s a more clubby vibe to it which let her show a different side. Look at those hips go. We wanted that catchy choreography and Connie’s clicks came through there. Um, but for the da da da da das, I wanted to do three completely different ones. So, as many K-pop songs that I have choreographed, I’ve been on very, very few music video sets. The first one that I can remember was 10 years ago for Big Bangs Bang Bang Bang. And I remember it felt like I was stepping into a different world. So I was able to go to Jesus’s music video set, which is the first Blackpink set that I’ve been on. We had a whole office set. We had the Purple Sand um dance performance area. Green screen over here, another set here. They work so hard on these stages and these sets. that it was really cool to finally be on one and then in the video as well. That’s a look at some of the biggest Blackpink performances that I have worked on. From the rehearsal room to the music video sets to the Coachella stage. Their energy and drive and superstardom always pushes me to bring my choreography to another level and I’ve always loved working with them. They’re great. Thanks for watching and I’ll see you next time.

Choreographer and creative director Kiel Tutin takes us behind the scenes of some of BLACKPINK’s most electrifying performances; from viral hits like “How You Like That” to their history-making Coachella headlining set. Having helped craft the group’s signature blend of power and precision, Kiel shares stories, creative insights, and the process behind performances that defined a generation of K-pop. This episode follows his deep dive into TWICE’s choreography last week and marks the second installment of Page Six’s “K-pop 101” series, setting the stage for the final episode with Kiel next week. Watch the full video for an exclusive look at how BLACKPINK’s bold movement and artistry come to life through Kiel’s vision.

Watch Kiel’s break down of some of TWICE’s biggest performances here: https://youtu.be/GNTgglNeoac

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