Harry Styles had a major night at the 2023 Grammys on Feb. 5, taking home two Grammys - including album of the year - for his 2022 album "Harry's House." But one less than picture-perfect moment was his performance of his hit single "As It Was," and now some of the people involved with the performance are speaking out about a major technical difficulty they experienced. Styles's live rendition of the song mimicked the music video for the track, with him and a group of dancers performing on a turntable. However, choreographer Dexter Da Rocha said in a since-deleted TikTok video that when the performance began, the turntable began spinning in the wrong direction.
"12 of us were on the turntable and we rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the turntable . . . and Harry did such a good job integrating into it and had a beautiful duet," Da Rocha said in the video posted Feb.
"12 of us were on the turntable and we rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the turntable . . . and Harry did such a good job integrating into it and had a beautiful duet," Da Rocha said in the video posted Feb.
- 2/7/2023
- by Noelle Devoe
- Popsugar.com
Harry Styles‘ dancers are speaking out after his Grammys performance of “As It Was” was criticized Sunday night after running into a handful of technical difficulties. The culprit, the dancers say, was that the turntable they rehearsed on for 10 days was suddenly going the wrong way once the performance kicked off during the 65th annual awards show.
“We rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the table in a roll-off and just making this incredible, morphing, cool artistic s**t and Harry did such a good job integrating into it,” one of Styles’ dancers, Dexter, said on TikTok. “This whole time we were practicing it with the turntable turning counterclockwise. It was difficult and it was frustrating making those patterns while something’s moving and having all this spatial awareness. At dress rehearsal, it was gorgeous, it was amazing. We get on stage for the performance,...
“We rehearsed for 10 days getting down these beautiful formations and sliding off the table in a roll-off and just making this incredible, morphing, cool artistic s**t and Harry did such a good job integrating into it,” one of Styles’ dancers, Dexter, said on TikTok. “This whole time we were practicing it with the turntable turning counterclockwise. It was difficult and it was frustrating making those patterns while something’s moving and having all this spatial awareness. At dress rehearsal, it was gorgeous, it was amazing. We get on stage for the performance,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Melissa Romualdi
- ET Canada
Harry Styles’s dancers have spoken out about performing at the Grammys, claiming that an incorrect staging cue threatened to derail their entire routine.
The “As It Was” singer performed his hit track at Sunday’s ceremony (5 February), later controversially taking home the coveted trophy for Album of the Year.
However, while Styles took care of the vocal part of the production, the dancers were reportedly dealing with trying to perform in reverse, as the walking turntable started spinning in the opposite direction to what had been rehearsed.
Brandon Mathis, one of the dancers on stage with Styles, shared his account of the performance on his Instagram Stories on Monday (6 February).
“The curtain opened and it was time to perform,” he began.
“Our turntable started spinning in reverse, backward, freaking all of us out on live television and there was nothing we could do to stop it.
“So after a...
The “As It Was” singer performed his hit track at Sunday’s ceremony (5 February), later controversially taking home the coveted trophy for Album of the Year.
However, while Styles took care of the vocal part of the production, the dancers were reportedly dealing with trying to perform in reverse, as the walking turntable started spinning in the opposite direction to what had been rehearsed.
Brandon Mathis, one of the dancers on stage with Styles, shared his account of the performance on his Instagram Stories on Monday (6 February).
“The curtain opened and it was time to perform,” he began.
“Our turntable started spinning in reverse, backward, freaking all of us out on live television and there was nothing we could do to stop it.
“So after a...
- 2/7/2023
- by Nicole Vassell
- The Independent - Music
Sunday was a night to remember for Harry Styles, who took home the coveted Album of the Year award and five other trophies at the 65th annual Grammy Awards.
But it was not a perfect moment. During his performance of his hit “As It Was” from the album Harry’s House, things went awry on the technical end.
Styles is not complaining, but his dancers revealed on social media that the performance almost ended in disaster. The staging for it was a spinning turntable, featuring Harry and his dancers on the platform. But what no one counted on was that the spin direction was changed from what had been rehearsed
“The moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, the turntable started spinning in reverse,” dancer Brandon Mathis said on Instagram. “Backward. Freaking all of us out on live television. And there was nothing we could do to stop it.
But it was not a perfect moment. During his performance of his hit “As It Was” from the album Harry’s House, things went awry on the technical end.
Styles is not complaining, but his dancers revealed on social media that the performance almost ended in disaster. The staging for it was a spinning turntable, featuring Harry and his dancers on the platform. But what no one counted on was that the spin direction was changed from what had been rehearsed
“The moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, the turntable started spinning in reverse,” dancer Brandon Mathis said on Instagram. “Backward. Freaking all of us out on live television. And there was nothing we could do to stop it.
- 2/7/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Harry Styles’ dancers during the 2023 Grammy Awards took to social media on Monday to reveal that while on live television the turntable they practiced on malfunctioned and began to spin in the wrong direction.
“What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse,” said Brandon Mathis, one of the dancers, in an Instagram story. “Backwards. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. In real time,...
“What you don’t know is that the moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning in reverse,” said Brandon Mathis, one of the dancers, in an Instagram story. “Backwards. Freaking all of us out on live television, and there was nothing we could do to stop it. In real time,...
- 2/7/2023
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
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