“Grammy Performance Disaster: Dancers Detail How Harry Styles’ Routine Went Off the Rails”
Styles and his dancers performed As It Was, one of last year’s biggest hits
Two of Harry Styles’ dancers have said they had to quickly adjust their Grammy Awards routine after the stage turned the wrong way.
The ex-One Direction star performed his single As It Was at Sunday’s album of the year ceremony.
The British singer and his dancers performed and rehearsed on a giant turntable while it spun in one direction.
But on the night it flipped in the opposite direction and “drove us all crazy on live TV,” said one dancer.
“The moment the curtain opened and it was time to perform, our turntable started spinning backwards, backwards.” explained dancer Brandon Mathis.
“We couldn’t do anything about it. After a week of rehearsing this piece perfectly one way, the moment it’s time to perform it starts going the other way and in real time we have to fix bugs and make a complete one piece reversed.
“Talk about professionalism,” he added in his statement on his Instagram story, which is no longer available.
Two dancers said they had to think quickly when the turntable they were rehearsing on started spinning the wrong way
Styles and some of his dancers pictured getting ready for their performance
One dancer said performing while filming requires a “special kind of balance.”
His account was echoed by another backup dancer, Dexter Da Rocha, in a since-deleted TikTok post.
“We rehearsed for 10 days to get these beautiful formations down and slide off the turntable… and Harry did such a good job of fitting into that,” explained Da Rocha.
“The whole time we practiced with the turntable counterclockwise. We’ve done it many times and got it to the point where we were in dress rehearsal, it was flawless and beautiful.”
But when the turntable spun the wrong way during the night, Da Rocha said the dancers were trying “to get the technician’s attention” but it was live TV and they “couldn’t scream” so the technician couldn’t see them heard .
“So to switch all these patterns on the spot without having walked in that direction… it sounds like it would be easy to walk, it’s like a treadmill but I swear to god since it’s circular pulls.” it takes you in different directions and it’s a special kind of balance.”
Da Rocha praised Styles, saying he “did his best to be able to walk and invert everything while he sang and invert his entire duet, which was incredible”.
Styles, pictured with Grammys presenter Trevor Noah, won two awards including Album of the Year for Harry’s House
The Recording Academy, the organization behind the Grammys, has not yet responded to the BBC’s request for comment.
Styles won two of the six Grammys he was nominated for on Sunday – Best Pop Vocal Album and Album of the Year for Harry’s House.
Album of the Year is widely regarded as the grand prize of the night and Styles edged out competition from artists widely regarded as front runners such as Adele, Lizzo, Coldplay and Beyoncé.
Styles accepted the award saying, “I’ve been so inspired by every artist in this category with me.
“But it’s important that we remember that there isn’t the best in music. That doesn’t happen very often to people like me, so that’s very nice, thanks.”
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