Before taking home the coveted Album of the Year award at the Grammys, which led to him being heckled by Beyonce fans, Harry Styles performed his hit song As It Was on the Grammy stage… to mixed reviews. on social networks.
While some criticized the performance online, others simply thought something was wrong with the performance, which turned out to be correct.
Early Monday morning, one of the 29-year-old singer’s back-up dancers, Dexter Da Rocha, revealed in a TikTok video that the turntable the dancers and Styles rehearsed on for days was spinning in the wrong direction it was. they practiced.
“Yoann Bourgeois and her partner Kerem did this beautiful, beautiful piece on a turntable, so there are 12 of us, we’re all on the turntable and we rehearsed for 10 days going down these beautiful formations and sliding off the turntable… and Harry did a great job blending into it and he had a beautiful duet and just made this incredible morphine artistically great,” Da Rocha began.
“And Harry did a good job of blending into it and he had this beautiful duet and all these things and all this time we practiced counterclockwise on the record player.” We did it a bunch of times and got it to the point where we were in dress rehearsal, it was flawless and beautiful,” the dancer continued.
‘It was unlike anything most of us had done before. It was frustrating and difficult to make those patterns while something is moving and having all this spatial awareness and working with people you’ve never met before, like it was a wild challenge,” Da Rocha added.
Wrong direction: Early Monday morning, one of the 29-year-old singer’s backup dancers, Dexter Da Rocha, revealed in a TikTok video that the turntable the dancers and Styles rehearsed on for days was spinning in the wrong direction in which they practiced. in
Beautiful: ‘Yoann Bourgeois and her partner Kerem did this beautiful, beautiful piece on a moving turntable, so there are 12 of us, we’re all on the turntable and we rehearsed for 10 days getting these beautiful formations down and sliding off the turntable. …and Harry did a really good job blending into it and had a beautiful duet and just made this amazing morphine into some great artistic s**t,” Da Rocha began.
‘So yesterday at the dress rehearsal, it was beautiful, it was incredible. We go up on stage for the presentation, the presentation begins and the turntable begins to rotate in the opposite direction”, explains Da Rocha.
The dancer added that they tried to “get the technician’s attention,” but it was live television and “they couldn’t scream,” so the technician didn’t hear them.
“So, to change all those patterns on the spot, without having walked in that direction… it seems like it would be easy to walk, it’s like a treadmill, but I swear to God, since it’s circular, it pulls in different directions and it’s such a special kind of balance,’ admitted Da Rocha.
“So we got used to one shape and it was the opposite, so luckily we worked together and did our best and got into a cool formation in time for the overhead shot, but we had to change the rest,” the dancer explained.
Da Rocha also praised Styles, saying that “he went out of his way to be able to walk and reverse everything while singing and reverse his entire duet, which was amazing.”
“Unfortunately, the media didn’t know what was going on so they called it lethargic or boring or whatever, but it really was, we were just trying to stay on our feet,” Da Rocha said.
So unfortunately the world didn’t get to see the beautiful work of Yoann Bourgeois or the work of all our dancers and the beautiful work of Harry, but it won Album of the Year, which is amazing, and we all have a story to tell. It was still an amazing experience. He’s so personable and cool and hardworking and he just made the rehearsal process so beautiful, what a fucking wild ride,” the dancer said.
Da Rocha admitted it was ‘very frustrating’ as they worked ‘so hard’ for 10 days and ‘couldn’t do what we rehearsed’, but the dancer is still ‘grateful’, adding that the lesson is: ‘You can try and control everything. what goes wrong, you can resist, or you can just make the most of it and work together and do the best you can, so have a happy monday.
Gorgeous: ‘So yesterday at the dress rehearsal, it was beautiful, it was amazing. We go on stage for the presentation, the presentation starts and the turntable starts to move in the opposite direction”, explains Da Rocha.
Frustrating: Da Rocha admitted it was “very frustrating” as they worked “so hard” for 10 days and “couldn’t do what we rehearsed” but the dancer is still “grateful”, adding that the lesson is “You can try to control everything that goes wrong you can resist or just make the best of it and work together and do your best so have a happy monday.
One fan also commented, “The professionalism omg Harry and you guys did amazing, I would have started crying,” and Da Rocha replied, “I sure did afterward.”
Another of Styles’ dancers, Brandon Mathis, also hinted at the difficulties in his Instagram post, though he still praised Styles as “a true rock star” and “an incredible human being who really cares about what he’s doing and with who is doing it, and that is very important.