we saw beyond our sea
II mean these days of bloody screaming
Oh children Dino head out with lilies
head of men honest and daily weave in
the temples strangling our guilt gray
mean we aided in the key
[Music]
and now I sold my broken dry tablets
without
you
my guilt is slavery’s chains too long
the clang of iron falls down the years
[Music]
there’s brother sold and this sisters
gone is bitter wax lining my ears my
dead of SE Turner Gabriel
they love to
[Music]
my greatest love
my sin is hanging from a tree I do not
I hate to die like a man I do it to
I see lies and not screaming
my journey started at the age of eleven
years old and something extraordinary
happened to me at that time which sent
me on a course to change my life
actually for the better I saw great
performances on channel 13 and the
documentary that was on at the time was
Margot Fonteyn and rid of Maria
performing a classic work like horse air
and I was enthralled and mesmerised and
couldn’t believe what I was watching and
and altitude listen PBS was my escape
channel because it were only 13 channels
anyway there were no no internet there’s
no Netflix Hulu any of that so but I
found great resource in PBS because I
had a lot of interest in the arts so
once I viewed this program I immediately
saw something and word of Nureyev oh
there was something in him that I
related to and maybe his naturalness was
definitely his a beauty present power um
it would just was magical to me so I
want to understand actually how to do
that how to dance like that and so I
said to my mother who was in the next
room said I want to dance and she said
oh really well I’m glad well good do you
know what it takes
are you willing to go to the edge and
she said something like a are you
willing to take the plunge I was like
the plunge what I had to do and I just
basically said yes I didn’t understand
all that she was asking me but I
understood that part there was something
that was just innately inside of me that
I knew if I got the information I could
so I then went to audition for the high
school performance and forgive me if I’m
panting cuz it’s a lot to do okay so um
so so onward
I auditioned for the High School of
Performing Arts and the issue was that I
was a hefty kid as well flexible but
hefty yeah and I didn’t understand or
know if they wanted to work with me
except me any other things but then when
I arrived to the school on the audition
day I saw dancers in tights and leotards
and vocal majors or those students who
are interested in vocal on the training
we’re doing a vocal ease and then I saw
actors over there doing here monologues
and it was breathtaking I thought had
stepped into a dream and it stepped into
my own reality right so but within that
I just said oh maybe I can to can do
this and thus I auditioned in my
three-piece green suit and patent
leather shoes which one of the dancers
when it is senior members and the school
said to me listen um maybe that that
outfit mm-hmm you look like honey Kohl’s
yeah and I didn’t know who honey Kohl’s
was at the time you know great tap
master and I said oh well thank you I
didn’t understand but he said you have
to have you know some sweats or dance
attire and that’s what I thought it was
so I didn’t have any information so I
quickly gave me some sweat pants and a
white t-shirt and that’s what I listened
in and I totally blanked on my first try
through they called a 40 I’ll never
forget it a 40 a 40 and I was standing
there a 40 I didn’t understand what was
happening because I was I was lost in
the idea of a being at the school I just
seen famed movie
I was mesmerized I kept hearing my
mother’s voice saying you know what it
takes
hearing Debbie Allen’s voicing uh Fame
cost and right here is where you start
paying in sweat I was like oh my god
what so when I heard my song the Tom Tom
Club come on there I was like I just
burst out into flailing arms
in any gymnastics step that I could give
them any sort of legs anything I was
turning and spinning and they were all
laughing laughing hysterically the whole
adjudicating panel worried laughing and
I didn’t really pay much more attention
to that I just was like I’m just going
to do what I got to do right here and
then they called me to the table
afterwards and said listen so who
choreographed that again I didn’t know
what choreography was so I said I’m not
sure what you mean and she said who
created that he’s the dude dance Dean
said to me and I said oh I just I kind
of built it basically I built it right
on the spot because I didn’t really
remember anything so saying that to say
that they said to me
long story short is that I was sent a
letter in the mail and they said that
they saw my enthusiasm my passion and
though it was enthusiastic audition
that’s what the words that we saw your
potential and I was like I again
flailing around and jump for joy at the
house but I really decided right then I
said wow this is going to be an
opportunity and I saw that opportunity
and thus having many many great teachers
in front of me and with me to guide me
not only through just pure classicism
just doing a simple tendu and knowing
what that was or making sure I knew what
movement was coming from from my inside
out and that’s what I related to rid of
Nureyev when I saw him there was
something that just permeated my soul
and thus obviously is the bio red I’ve
gone on and done a few things in a world
you know um and danced around the world
but the most beautiful thing I would say
through all my trials to triumph would
be when I was at the Paris Opera dancing
with Alvin Ailey and I finished a piece
called treading and it’s a duet with a
man and a woman and I was called
backstage and I didn’t understand what
was happening I thought Alvin Ailey was
like what what did you do I was super
scared and then I was summoned to the
side of the stage
Paris Opera and they’re read of Nureyev
was sitting in his wheelchair and he
summoned to me to come over to him and
said oh my god
so he said Monsieur formidably your
incredible dancer oh my God where do you
come from
and I said Queens New York and then he
said hits I told him I said we’ll listen
thank you so much for your accolade and
he then said to me for what are you
thanking me for
and I told him that you were my
inspiration
you were my lipo moment you know I
identified with you and thus my world
opened up for dance and he just bowed to
me in gratitude and they wheeled him off
yeah but with that saying that I really
am honored to continue to share dance
with the world and do what I do thank
you [Applause]
II mean these days of bloody screaming
Oh children Dino head out with lilies
head of men honest and daily weave in
the temples strangling our guilt gray
mean we aided in the key
[Music]
and now I sold my broken dry tablets
without
you
my guilt is slavery’s chains too long
the clang of iron falls down the years
[Music]
there’s brother sold and this sisters
gone is bitter wax lining my ears my
dead of SE Turner Gabriel
they love to
[Music]
my greatest love
my sin is hanging from a tree I do not
I hate to die like a man I do it to
I see lies and not screaming
my journey started at the age of eleven
years old and something extraordinary
happened to me at that time which sent
me on a course to change my life
actually for the better I saw great
performances on channel 13 and the
documentary that was on at the time was
Margot Fonteyn and rid of Maria
performing a classic work like horse air
and I was enthralled and mesmerised and
couldn’t believe what I was watching and
and altitude listen PBS was my escape
channel because it were only 13 channels
anyway there were no no internet there’s
no Netflix Hulu any of that so but I
found great resource in PBS because I
had a lot of interest in the arts so
once I viewed this program I immediately
saw something and word of Nureyev oh
there was something in him that I
related to and maybe his naturalness was
definitely his a beauty present power um
it would just was magical to me so I
want to understand actually how to do
that how to dance like that and so I
said to my mother who was in the next
room said I want to dance and she said
oh really well I’m glad well good do you
know what it takes
are you willing to go to the edge and
she said something like a are you
willing to take the plunge I was like
the plunge what I had to do and I just
basically said yes I didn’t understand
all that she was asking me but I
understood that part there was something
that was just innately inside of me that
I knew if I got the information I could
so I then went to audition for the high
school performance and forgive me if I’m
panting cuz it’s a lot to do okay so um
so so onward
I auditioned for the High School of
Performing Arts and the issue was that I
was a hefty kid as well flexible but
hefty yeah and I didn’t understand or
know if they wanted to work with me
except me any other things but then when
I arrived to the school on the audition
day I saw dancers in tights and leotards
and vocal majors or those students who
are interested in vocal on the training
we’re doing a vocal ease and then I saw
actors over there doing here monologues
and it was breathtaking I thought had
stepped into a dream and it stepped into
my own reality right so but within that
I just said oh maybe I can to can do
this and thus I auditioned in my
three-piece green suit and patent
leather shoes which one of the dancers
when it is senior members and the school
said to me listen um maybe that that
outfit mm-hmm you look like honey Kohl’s
yeah and I didn’t know who honey Kohl’s
was at the time you know great tap
master and I said oh well thank you I
didn’t understand but he said you have
to have you know some sweats or dance
attire and that’s what I thought it was
so I didn’t have any information so I
quickly gave me some sweat pants and a
white t-shirt and that’s what I listened
in and I totally blanked on my first try
through they called a 40 I’ll never
forget it a 40 a 40 and I was standing
there a 40 I didn’t understand what was
happening because I was I was lost in
the idea of a being at the school I just
seen famed movie
I was mesmerized I kept hearing my
mother’s voice saying you know what it
takes
hearing Debbie Allen’s voicing uh Fame
cost and right here is where you start
paying in sweat I was like oh my god
what so when I heard my song the Tom Tom
Club come on there I was like I just
burst out into flailing arms
in any gymnastics step that I could give
them any sort of legs anything I was
turning and spinning and they were all
laughing laughing hysterically the whole
adjudicating panel worried laughing and
I didn’t really pay much more attention
to that I just was like I’m just going
to do what I got to do right here and
then they called me to the table
afterwards and said listen so who
choreographed that again I didn’t know
what choreography was so I said I’m not
sure what you mean and she said who
created that he’s the dude dance Dean
said to me and I said oh I just I kind
of built it basically I built it right
on the spot because I didn’t really
remember anything so saying that to say
that they said to me
long story short is that I was sent a
letter in the mail and they said that
they saw my enthusiasm my passion and
though it was enthusiastic audition
that’s what the words that we saw your
potential and I was like I again
flailing around and jump for joy at the
house but I really decided right then I
said wow this is going to be an
opportunity and I saw that opportunity
and thus having many many great teachers
in front of me and with me to guide me
not only through just pure classicism
just doing a simple tendu and knowing
what that was or making sure I knew what
movement was coming from from my inside
out and that’s what I related to rid of
Nureyev when I saw him there was
something that just permeated my soul
and thus obviously is the bio red I’ve
gone on and done a few things in a world
you know um and danced around the world
but the most beautiful thing I would say
through all my trials to triumph would
be when I was at the Paris Opera dancing
with Alvin Ailey and I finished a piece
called treading and it’s a duet with a
man and a woman and I was called
backstage and I didn’t understand what
was happening I thought Alvin Ailey was
like what what did you do I was super
scared and then I was summoned to the
side of the stage
Paris Opera and they’re read of Nureyev
was sitting in his wheelchair and he
summoned to me to come over to him and
said oh my god
so he said Monsieur formidably your
incredible dancer oh my God where do you
come from
and I said Queens New York and then he
said hits I told him I said we’ll listen
thank you so much for your accolade and
he then said to me for what are you
thanking me for
and I told him that you were my
inspiration
you were my lipo moment you know I
identified with you and thus my world
opened up for dance and he just bowed to
me in gratitude and they wheeled him off
yeah but with that saying that I really
am honored to continue to share dance
with the world and do what I do thank
you [Applause]
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