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LES TWINS | Freestyle to One Way Shanghai Workhshop 2020 ????????

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Two brothers from Sarcelles just turned a Shanghai dance studio into a cypher.

Larry and Laurent Bourgeois — known worldwide as Les Twins — dropped into the One Way Shanghai workshop and did what they’ve done on dance floors from Paris to Los Angeles for over a decade: made up a routine on the spot that looked more rehearsed than most choreographed numbers. No script, no counts called out beforehand, just two brothers reading the same beat and finishing each other’s movement in real time.

• The clip is credited across multiple dance-media outlets, including Power Dance and Kev & Marcel, under the title “LES TWINS | Freestyle to One Way Shanghai Workshop.”
• Les Twins appeared in an instructor capacity at the workshop, engaging directly with Shanghai’s local street-dance community rather than performing a staged set.
• The routine is entirely freestyle — improvised on the spot, not blocked-out choreography — built on the isolations, musicality, and mirrored improvisation that define their “Twins-Style.”

Definition of Twins-Style Branding

Anyone who’s followed New Style hip-hop knows the term gets thrown around loosely, but with Larry and Laurent it has a specific meaning. It’s built on hyper-controlled isolations — chest pops, wrist rolls, shoulder ticks — layered on top of a musicality that treats every snare hit and vocal ad-lib as a cue. What separates them from most freestylers is the twin telepathy: one brother initiates a movement and the other completes it, or mirrors it a half-beat later, without either of them looking at the other for confirmation.

That’s exactly what plays out in the Shanghai footage. There’s no formation, no eight-count, no cue sheet. Larry starts a phrase, Laurent answers it, and the two trade the lead back and forth as the track shifts tempo — the same instinctive call-and-response that’s made them fixtures of masterclasses and cyphers on nearly every continent.

Two dancers, one body’s worth of timing — that’s the whole trick, and it still doesn’t look like a trick.

Strategies for Attracting Shanghai Customers

Workshops like One Way exist to put emerging street dancers in a room with people who’ve defined the genre at the international level, and Les Twins have spent years doing exactly that kind of teaching circuit — hosting masterclasses across Asia, North America, and Europe, breaking down technique for dancers who grew up studying their battle footage online. The Shanghai session follows that same format: instruction paired with a live freestyle demonstration so participants see the technique applied in real conditions, not just explained on a whiteboard.

What makes the freestyle segment valuable to that audience isn’t just watching two famous dancers move — it’s watching the decision-making. Every isolation, every sudden shift from fluid arm control to a sharp pop, is a choice made in the moment, which is the entire point of a freestyle-focused masterclass versus a choreography camp.

The Bigger Picture for the Duo

By early 2020, Les Twins had already built a career on exactly this kind of appearance — cyphers, battles, and workshop cameos stacked up across a decade-plus run that turned them from Sarcelles-born battle dancers into global ambassadors for New Style hip-hop. The Shanghai clip is one more entry in that ledger, notable less for any single trick than for how consistently the brothers deliver the same improvisational chemistry no matter which city or crowd they’re standing in front of.

If the pattern holds, this won’t be the last workshop clip to surface — Les Twins have rarely gone more than a few months without popping up at another masterclass, another cypher, another city’s dance scene wanting a firsthand look at the style everyone’s been copying off YouTube for years.