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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.
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