09 Sep 278. DANCE + NATHAN KIM

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278. DANCE + NATHAN KIM

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This is DANCE + Nathan Kim

The choreographer behind the newest Spider-Man, on how dance found him almost by accident.

Nathan Kim didn’t grow up dreaming of being a choreographer. His meet-cute with dance happened almost by chance, with an open slot in an Afro Brazilian dance class, and one impossible-to-mark movement across the floor that cracked something open in him. From there, dance became the throughline of a career that’s taken him behind the camera and back, from his early days shaping movement for Charli XCX, to leading the choreography team on Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

We explore:

• The happy accident that got him into that first dance class, and the moment mid-warmup when he stopped holding back

• The wild logistics of choreographing Spider-Man’s biggest movement sequences, in-ears, hand cues, counts, and dancers who can’t see what’s coming from behind them

• Why “kill your darlings” hits different at a blockbuster budget, and how the ideas that get cut still ripple through everything that survives

This one’s for anyone who thinks their path has to be a straight line. Nathan’s wasn’t, and it swung him to Spider-Man.

Watch the full episode on YouTube.

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