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FKA Twigs Gets Prepped for Uber Afropunk Execution via Swordplay, Pole Dancing, etc. with Vogue

FKA Twigs gives us amazing and impressively athletic performance at Afropunk.

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FKA Twigs' aesthetic practice is as much about connected physicality all things considered about her crystalline voice or ground breaking melodic creation. In the event that that wasn't obvious from the British craftsman's latest video, "Cellophane," which delineates Twigs wearing an overlaid, frond-like swimsuit set and inches-high metallic stage heels while effortlessly spinning around a shaft, at that point you may get a comparative thought from the training shaft moving recordings that she presents on Instagram.

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Or then again, in the event that you were fortunate enough to visit, at Twigs' Magdalene exhibit that she performed at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in the spring: in the middle of seven distinctive rococo outfits uniquely crafted by London fashioner Ed Marler—including everything from eighteenth century retainer troupes to Marie Antoinette–propelled ball outfits—Twigs accepted the open door to show off her extravagant shaft work in style.

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Twigs additionally took her Magdalene exhibit to Afropunk half a month back—the last emphasis of the demonstrate that she will perform until she makes it "even more fabulous," as she puts it, toward the part of the arrangement. Fortunately, she shared the whole of her practice procedure with Vogue, from heading to the scene in Brooklyn to rehearsing movement in a studio.

She additionally shared a few bits of knowledge into her shaft moving practice: “With pole, you have to be so present,” she says. “To me, it’s like boxing, you know? If you’re boxing you have to be present…. There’s that level of being just really there with yourself and there with your instrument, or else you’re going to mess yourself up.”

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Twigs concedes that she gets somewhat strange before a presentation—"Not in a good way," she includes—yet any pre-show butterflies are unmistakably justified, despite all the trouble for such an amazing final product.

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