Mandy Moore is opening up about working with Taylor Swift on The Eras Tour.
The Emmy award-winning chorographer choreographed the two-year long worldwide tour, as well as the music video for “The Fate of Ophelia,” and in a new interview, dished on fine-tuning the entertainer’s dance abilities after being “really in her head” following scrutiny of her dancing.
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“She’d gotten a bad rap for a long time about her dancing, so she was really in her head,” Mandy told The New York Times. “We shifted the focus to how movement was already manifesting in her body — the way she naturally wanted to move. And then we fine-tuned that: ‘OK, that looks a little weird with your shoulders,’ or, ‘Let’s straighten your knee here.’”
She also praised Taylor‘s work ethic and her determination.
“I really admire Taylor’s tenacity. She works so hard. Whatever I was putting down, she was picking up,” she added. “And she’s very clear about what she wants, which I love. I find I can’t create unless I have some parameters. The ‘do whatever you want’ thing, for me, it just feels like chaos.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Mandy opened up about choreographing for celebrities (she’s also worked with Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, Shania Twain and more).
“The nature of this job is that I’m often seeing people — not just celebrities, everyone — in very vulnerable positions,” she says. “Dance is so vulnerable, and that feeling is only magnified by how famous the person is. Some of these artists have been sort of traumatized by dance. And so I end up as a kind of dance therapist.”
“A lot of it is really just getting in a room and being like, ‘Look, here’s this thing that I love, and you can love it too!’” Mandy continued. “Teach them the love first and the steps later.”
Fans will get an inside, behind-the-scenes look at The Eras Tour in an upcoming docu-series, Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour | The End of an Era, which is set to debut on Disney+ later this year!
Source: justjared.com
