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A three-way choreography collab turns a Seoul dance studio into a stage for Tinashe’s “Link Up.”

Uploaded January 6, 2020, by South Korean dance studio PlayTheUrban, the video documents a collaborative workshop class built entirely around Tinashe’s “Link Up,” a track off her late-2019 album Songs for You. The song supplies the soundtrack only — Tinashe herself had no direct involvement with the class, the studio, or the choreography. The real story is the trio of instructors who built the routine and taught it to a room full of students inside PlayTheUrban’s academy.

• The choreography was created and taught jointly by South Korean dancers Simeez, Jiwon Shin, and Moana during a collab class filmed at the PlayTheUrban Dance Academy studio.
• Tinashe’s “Link Up,” from her 2019 album Songs for You, is used strictly as the music for the routine — she was not a participant in the class or its production.
• Simeez and Jiwon Shin are both core members of Lachica, the South Korean dance crew known industry-wide for choreographing for K-pop acts including Chungha; Jiwon Shin later became widely recognized under the name Gabee.

Inside the Collab Class

PlayTheUrban’s collab classes follow a familiar format for K-pop-adjacent dance studios: bring in multiple established choreographers, have them co-build one routine to a single track, then film the finished product with the instructors up front before cycling through student groups who learned the combinations that day. That’s exactly the structure here — Simeez, Jiwon Shin, and Moana open the video performing the full routine together, then the footage moves through selected class groups running the same combinations to “Link Up.”

The style leans urban-heels and jazz-funk, built around the sensual, groove-heavy phrasing of Tinashe’s track rather than sharp, hit-heavy choreography. That’s consistent with the kind of movement Lachica dancers are known for building — routines that prioritize musicality and attitude over rigid formation work.

The Masterminds Behind the Choreography

Simeez and Jiwon Shin aren’t just class instructors for hire — both are core members of Lachica, one of the most recognized dance crews in the South Korean industry, credited with choreography for artists like Chungha. Jiwon Shin would go on to become widely known under the name Gabee, a name that circulates heavily in K-pop choreography credits and dance-cover breakdowns online. Moana rounds out the trio as the third co-choreographer and instructor for the session.

Tinashe X SIMEEZ X JIWON SHIN X MOANA — Collab Class, PlayTheUrban.

That credit line, pulled straight from the video’s own title, tells you exactly what this is: not an artist teaching a class, but three choreographers building a single piece of work around one song and putting their combined names on it.

The Track Doing the Heavy Lifting

“Link Up” comes from Tinashe’s Songs for You, released independently in late 2019 after she parted ways with RCA Records. The album leaned into the R&B-and-dance textures that made her a fixture for choreographers well before this class — her catalog has long been a go-to source for studios building sensual, groove-based routines, which is precisely why a track like “Link Up” ends up as the backing music for a collab class rather than something she personally choreographed to.

PlayTheUrban’s format has made these collab-class uploads a recurring draw for dancers tracking new choreography out of Seoul, the same ecosystem that keeps feeding trending music coverage and dance-cover channels well beyond Korea. With Jiwon Shin’s profile only growing under the Gabee name and Simeez’s Lachica credits stacking up, this “Link Up” session is one more clip that dancers studying Lachica’s choreography will keep coming back to long after the class itself wrapped.