After catching the eye of legendary choreographer Fatima, he graduated high school and moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dreams full \time. He started putting together choreography for local acts, eventually working his way up to dancing with Diddy, Janet Jackson, and Soulja Boy. “Frank didn’t know the name of it, but I did,” says JaQuel, who grew up in Georgia and taught himself to dance by imitating routines from television. According to JaQuel, it was Frank Gatson who introduced the J-Setting technique to Beyoncé.
Seven, eight-heads jerk up and down to the bassline. Three, four-hips gyrate from left to right. “There’s the fear that people will get upset if it’s not done right.” J-Setting is a lead-and-follow style of dancing that requires the body to move to an eight-beat count: One, two- high knee kicks defy gravity. “It’s kind of a risk when you’re introducing something underground,” says JaQuel Knight, 19, the co-choreographer, with Frank Gatson, of Beyoncé’s sensational, sensual videos “Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)” and the follow-up “Diva”-which brought J-Setting culture from local dancefloors and into the international limelight.
The popular gay pride dance, J-Setting, has gone full mainstream: Bey and her “single trannies” have given the gays more to dance about.
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