I learned early on that Gaga is a very visual-driven type of artist – she’s filled with ideas. So we kind of knew each other a little bit. We had a practice run on “Paparazzi” like, a year earlier.
Tell me about how you and Gaga came up with the concept for the “Telephone” music video. "It’s just a lot of fun, moving to the music and letting it carry you.Jonas Åkerlund, the Swedish filmmaker who directed and co-wrote the music video, spoke to Variety 10 years after its release about its hectic two-day shoot, improvising lines with Beyonce and Gaga and if fans ever will get a sequel after the mysterious “to be continued” note at the end of “Telephone.” The instructor changes things up all the time, so “we never know what we’re going to get," he said. UpBeats also is good mental exercise, he said, since learning the routines challenges your memory. In some other yoga classes, the music is more “like wallpaper in the background." Stephen Reinhardt, 69, said he likes that the class is music driven. "I’m not a very good dancer, but it’s just fun.” “It really gets our heart rate going, and I like trying to do all the moves,” she said. Yoga enthusiast Kathy Scheen likes the UpBeats approach. “People have a good time with it,” she said. Yoga has been around for thousands of years and some prefer it in its purist form, but if fun music and moves can attract new people to the practice and its benefits, "I'm all for it," Eirk said. “It totally transforms what a yoga pose feels like.”
The music “makes it so much fun,” she said. We did break-up songs on Valentine’s Day.”ĭuring Gaga night, Eirk occasionally departed from Gaga’s dance songs to incorporate some jazzier tracks and some of the Super Bowl halftime performer’s work with Tony Bennett. “On the disco night, we did the hustle,” Eirk said. The class also has dabbled with heavy metal, hip-hop and ballet as well as hits from the '80s and '90s, such as “Walk Like an Egyptian,” “Vogue” and “Thriller,” and with funky artists, such as George Michael and Prince. How do you not move fast? I just thought I would jam tonight.” “I’ve had nights we’ve moved slower," Eirk said. Tuesday night's class, which ran for the typical hour and 15 minutes, reflected Gaga's high-energy style of pop music. “A lot of times you don’t sweat in yoga, and I’m dripping.” “Everything about it is challenging,” said Kim Clark, an UpBeats first-timer who takes different kinds of yoga classes throughout the week.
“We tend to teach a small combination and repeat it throughout the song and each song has sort of a theme, so it’s a highly choreographed class,” said Eirk, who has a background in ballet and modern dance as well as yoga and aerobics.Īt the same time, participants get the chance to work on things such as strength, flexibility, range of motion, balance and improving their joints, Eirk said. Typical yoga poses, such as downward-facing dog, tree and eagle, are combined with dance moves, such as salsa, disco and even country line dancing, to match the night’s playlist. "We're taking vinyasa (yoga) and we're modernizing it with the music that we select as well as incorporating a lot of dances that are super fun," said Lauren Eirk, the certified yoga instructor who created the class. UpBeats, a class that meshes yoga with dance steps and popular music. Lady Gaga tunes, such as “Poker Face,” “Paparazzi” and “Just Dance,” served as the backdrop for Yoga I.S. Tuesday was "YoGaga" night at the Yoga Integrated Science Wellness Center in St. Watch Video: Yoga class gets a twist during YoGaga night
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