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Britt Stewart and Daniel Durant have had constant success so far on Dancing With The Stars, and we don’t anticipate them to decelerate any time quickly! Daniel is the third deaf contestant to compete on DWTS, and Britt has taken on the added problem with a full coronary heart and openness to be taught, herself, which seems to be working week after week. “I do have to be intentional and I do have to be conscious about how I’m choreographing and how I’m teaching Daniel, but I have I have really high expectations for him and I know that he has high expectations for himself,” she defined in an EXCLUSIVE interview on the HollywoodLife Podcast.
Despite decrease marks final Monday for Disney Night, Britt mentioned that the judges’ criticisms are the pair’s “motivation” for this week. “Daniel was like, ‘I needed this.’ Not that he didn’t already have a lit fire underneath him, because he did. He wants this so bad,” Britt continued. The professional teaches her counterpart by means of visible studying, in addition to explaining to him the “intricacies of the musicality and rhythm.” “He can feel the vibration of the tempo when the music plays, but he can’t feel the musicality, so we approach it in a few different ways,” she defined. “I like to do it visually so he can see what it is. For example, on Tuesday, we do the ChaCha, and there’s a step called the Cuban break. So, I will show him ‘One, two, and three, and four, and one,’ so I would visually do that. Then also, I do it on his chest too. So, I will sign what slow is and then what’s quick, and then he can feel what the rhythm is.”
While “no one is truly ever prepared for Dancing With The Stars,” Britt mentioned she is impressed every day with Daniel’s dedication to the competitors. “He wants to put his all into it and that requires a lot,” she famous. “He’s learning day by day and he’s just so excited about it.” The dancer additionally added that the CODA star has expressed to her his want to proceed to bop and implement a dance program for deaf kids across the nation. “He’s said that dance is therapy for him. He’s a mentor to a child that is deaf in Minnesota where he’s from, to help him in the school system, and now that he’s gotten a taste of this new expression, he wants to bring it to schools for the deaf and to kids that are deaf,” she defined.
“It’s so beautiful how aligned we are, because I have a nonprofit for BIPOC young dancers [Share The Movement], as well, and we’re going to get everyone to dance and make dance accessible to truly everyone,” Britt continued. “It’s also just so beautiful because Daniel is teaching me his language. I’m fulling diving into ASL and it’s coming pretty naturally to me. He’s teaching me in rehearsals and it’s just the most beautiful exchange of knowledge.”
Dancing With The Stars airs on Disney+ at 8 PM ET this week on Monday AND Tuesday for a particular two night time occasion! Tune in!
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