From WONWOO’s ending in “Pretty U” five years ago till he takes charge of the ending of "Rock with You,” they still practice like their lives depend on it to bring their performance to another level. In this regard, the performance of “Rock with You” looks like a sequence from a musical about SEVENTEEN themselves. “Rock with You” incorporated the elements of SEVENTEEN’s practice room vibes into a performance, which now has become CARAT’s pride and joy. Seven years into their debut, the team still practices to the point of exhaustion and runs about with glee when they’re satisfied with their on-point performance. Welcomed by the screaming adulation from their fans, the members of SEVENTEEN, who moved as one organism, run around separately on the stage instead of dancing, and all shake their heads together. In “Rock with You” the group sings “you who shaped me become this song” and “without you, I am nothing.” The lyrics are specifically for the fans who waited with bated breath for them to take the stage, not for some unspecified person. All these efforts lead up to the moment when even the sounds of the 13 members’ shoes squeaking on the floor are in sync. On top of that, the members have to share their ideas and understand one another to fine-tune their choreography. The “Rock with You” performance ends with WONWOO flopping down out of exhaustion, calling to mind their actual practice process, with the dancers short of breath and the dance floor slippery from sweat. In that sense, SEVENTEEN’s performance belongs to the realm of sincerity, rather than mastery. In order to achieve synchronized movements despite the different lengths of their arms and legs as well as the organic connection of movements from member to member, they have to spend as much time together as possible in the practice studio. It takes constant and repetitive practice for the 13 members to pull off their intricate, fascinating, and intense dance moves so exactly in sync. Except when performing their individual parts, the members of SEVENTEEN dance like a single organism. However, their differences – VERNON making his body look bigger with big shoulder movements and DINO’s swift turns – are hardly noticeable until the chorus, when they pop out to draw attention to themselves. VERNON and DINO have different physiques and dance styles. Surprisingly yet befittingly for SEVENTEEN, all members dance with extreme precision and near-perfect timing. During the chorus, they pop up to the front, moving their lower bodies, then dance fiercely with their upper bodies, followed by two members positioned at the very front as the points of the formation, delivering a 3-D effect to the screen, all with effortless transitions too. While moving extensively around the entire stage in a manner that seems almost impossible to record with ordinary music program cameras, the members dance constantly to practically every beat of the song. The performance opens with the formation of a diamond – the symbol of their fandom “CARAT.” The members spread out to create a bigger formation, then divide into three groups, each dancing in turn at the center, left, and right. Myungseok Kang: SEVENTEEN’s performance of “Rock with You,” the lead single from their new album Attacca, offers the most intricately detailed choreography to date out of many that are known to be difficult.
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