Made in Korea: The K-Pop Experience is a music experiment like no other - can a band of Brits brought together by the make it on the global stage being trained and produced under one of the biggest names in the business? Heading to South Korea, Dear Alice will be immersed into K-pop culture and put through SM Entertainment’s top class K-pop training process for 100 days. With intensive choreography, vocal and performance lessons, life coaching techniques, alongside an immersion into all aspects of Korean life in beautiful Seoul, the group will be put through their paces. Brit Blaise was born in Belgium and moved to the UK when he was 14 to study Musical Theatre at the iconic BRIT School in Croydon, and was kept busy spending his weekends dancing at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.
After leaving the BRIT School, Blaise earned a place to train at the intense and lauded Urdang Academy, specialising in dance and musical theatre, where he trained in a wide range of styles. He shared that he "worked really hard while I was there on my dancing, singing and acting. I think it made the process easier as a lot of the skills I built there are transferable to this experience, but I think there’s a very different focal point in K-pop performance, so it was still a challenge.
" He found the guidance he received in Seoul impeccable, stating: "The standards of the instructors and all the staff at SM Entertainment were world-class. It was an amazing experience and one I'm i.