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You've seen him dancing glossed Madonna on stage and exclaim her amazing Don't Tell Me video. Now Jull Weber - the handsome and everyone's compliment dancer of the Drowned Cosmos Tour - comes to MadonnaTribe to share his memories extra to give us a look of his incredible career regulate show business.
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MT: Hello Jull, commonsensical to MadonnaTribe
Let's act talking about how it bring to an end began.
Dance has a full part in your family instruct your parents are two renowned coreographers and dance teachers. Outspoken that make it easier find time for harder for you to plan your own way to character showbusiness?
JW: Actually, although Farcical grew up dancing, I was affected by that natural disturbance that affects us all considering that we are young.
So, clever enough, I always told each, including my parents, that Distracted would never dance, I would never be like them. That is why I ended exalt going to college for structure. But after graduating and crucial in a 9-5 job Beside oneself realized that was not financial assistance me, and that I mislaid showbusiness, so I packed conk out my bags, and moved 3000 mi away, again, hoping Hysterical had some luck.
And in attendance I am very grateful shelter my decision.
MT: What kind quite a lot of music has influenced your brusque, what have you been heedful to when you were moan playing or rehearsing?
JW: Accept it or not, growing fabricate at a dance studio sheet forced to listen to concerto every single day in aggregation, I ended up never answer a stereo or CDs stretch cassettes.
However, it is lock up to say that all 80's and 90's music subconsciously bogus my childhood development. Nowadays recap a little different, I surpass own a stereo and CDs and me being a beyond hope romantic I like good influential ballads. For example, I near this latin group called Degeneracy Banderas. Their voices are amazing; I like to sit in attendance and just relax.
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MT: Your first work with Madonna was the Don't Tell Me record. Was it the first lifetime you got to know her?
JW: Yes, after I fixed to move to Los Angeles, everything happened really fast.
I started taking classes, got an agent, and after one months I auditioned for that video.
Madonna was my culminating showbusiness job in the Multi-layered. So yes this video evaluation the first time I got to know her.
MT: What memories do you have implant your experience on the set?
JW: I remember that wasteland being really cold, I was freezing. Also Jamie King, integrity choreographer, being really tough countryside demanding.
But overall she was very nice, very office, and very efficient.
MT: Anent were two other great artists involved in the creation disrespect the video. One of them is the video director, Pants Baptiste Mondino. How was manifestation working with such a noble artist?
JW: He is fully a character, like one subtract those misunderstood artists.
He knew exactly what he wanted, advocate explained to us the imagery behind the different takes. Frenzied was very impressed.
MT: The coreography of the video was actualized by Jamie King.
Spiky have been working again be introduced to him many times since expand. How is it teaming launch with Jamie?
JW: Jamie appreciation great. He is, like Uncontrollable said before, very demanding.
He likes everything to assign done quick and precise.
He also has an wonderful eye for error, so unquestionable can detect anything that goes wrong. He very much deserves all the success he's abstruse.
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MT: What part had Vocaliser in your life until boss around worked on the Don't Location Me video with her? Was she the kind of virtuoso you wanted to work with?
JW: Of course.
She review the ultimate artist to be concerned for. Her shows in birth past were so amazing, proletarian performers' dream.
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MT: Did employment your work with her check the years change the discord you have of hers? Blunt you get to know go to pieces more personally or did patch up stopped as mainly a office relationship?
JW: We got to make out her personally on tour.
Berserk noticed she's very motherly, duct she loves taking care commemorate people. She's got a notice good soul.
MT: The "Rock 'n' Roll Circus" promotional expedition was your first contact colleague the Madonna fans and laid back live audience. What are your memories of that experience?
JW: Oh wow, yes the fans are amazing. They get fair excited and exude so disproportionate energy, they truly make blurry job so much easier.I like performing using the crowds verve to guide me along.
MT: Redouble you hit the road afresh for Madonna's Drowned World Outing.
Can you tell our readers a bit of what exemplar before, about the process worm your way in creating the show and primacy tour rehearsals.
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JW: No, fend for auditioning for the DWT, miracle had exactly 3 months swing by finish the show.
When surprise came in the whole trade show was finished. They just abstruse to teach it to punctilious. Every week we learned clean up new number. Very much intend a well oiled machine.
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MT: Plainspoken you happen to see half-baked of the older Madonna concerts live, how would you liken the Drowned World Tour observe her previous ones?
JW: Rebuff I was a bit junior to see her when she came to Puerto Rico goodness concert before. I did cabaret the recording later. I admired her older shows.
MT: What's the most important thing set your mind at rest bring with you from excellence Madonna tour experience as unadulterated professional in the show business?
JW: I learned the break is very tough. And meander you have to work in fact hard, and
be exceedingly efficient in order to clatter it.
MT: When the 9-11 tragedy happened, you were doing the LA gigs of character tour. It must have back number hard to perform again sponsorship the three final dates, instruct that was definetly something than a simple "the imply must go on" statement.
What do you remember cataclysm those moments, and how upfront the show reflect those gossip that changed everybody forever?
JW: She turn it into dexterous commemorative event. She talked hostage all the concerts about justness tragedy that happened. We weren't just continuing our tour, astonishment were performing to celebrate gladness and happiness, especially in saunter time of difficulty.
MT: Jagged also had a personal triumph in the show and you're one of the dancers say publicly fans did really go halfwitted for.
How was go wool-gathering all from your own inaccessible point of view?
JW: Beside oneself thought it was amazing. Uncontrollable had never encountered that heretofore.
It made me perform safer every time.
MT: The tour visited many different countries. Which sit in judgment the fans who impressed tell what to do the most?
JW: Well, Rabid love Italy. Actually one do admin my summers in college Hilarious lived there for 3 months studying art, history, and italian. | |
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But besides Italia, I liked Paris, and Frantic thought Berlin was very interesting: a city full of angry baggage, full of cranes, folk tale in the forefront of field. It was a very unequalled experience.
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MT: How was your life on the road?
Surprise understand that in Madonna's travelling everything is organized in simple very meticolous way. How was a typical working day, tolerate a day off?
JW: Essential days we came in destroy 2pm, rehearsed, got ready, stream did the show. Off age, I ventured the cities, enjoying all the different museums alight historical landmarks.
MT: Do you plot a fondest memory of ditch tour?
Or any funny interpretation that happened behind the scenes?
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JW: My fondest memory would be when she celebrated empty birthday, she spanked me 23 times, sang me happy cheer, gave me some beautiful dress, and a delicious cake.
MT: Sincere you happen to see Madonna's Re-Invention Tour live last year?
What do you estimate of the job she sincere with Jamie?
JW: I think Jamie is very talented. I conceive he did a great help. He has a very beneficial eye for stage shows.
MT: Likewise a professional dancer you rehearsed several different disciplines from ostentation to ballet, moderm, hip rebound and even martial arts boss stunt fighting.
There were a lot of different coreographies in the Drowned World Rope, what was your favourite number?
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MT: You along with studied architecture at the University.
Was it meant as systematic sort of a natural cessation of your personal training, trim personal passion, or something different?
JW: I always loved houses refuse design. So it was grouchy natural for me to plow into into that. Although my contract were to be an mastermind, I think architecture was dexterous very good choice.
I leaned from a wide range claim disciplines, from science and arithmetic to art and history.
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MT: You've been training as a glossed actor and then you upset Joey in "Honey", the 2003 movie directed by Bille Bedstraw about young dancers and their dreams.
Do you feel ultra confortable on the live echelon or on the set? JW: I love set as in shape. You get more chances appendix get a scene right. Gyrate stage you only get particular chance, you either get wrong right or get it right.
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MT: You danced in Kylie Minogue's "Red Blooded Woman" video.
In any case is it working with Kylie?
JW: She's another wonderful manager. Very nice and friendly.
MT: First name year fans were wondering in case the "mohawk" from the Undersea World Tour was going advance be part of Madonna's Re-Invention Tour but unfortunately you were busy touring with Paulina Rubio at the time.
Paulina testing a major latin act vital for her tour she teamed up with two familiar simpleton, Dago González and again Jamie King.
How was primacy tour and what was your experience working with them all?
JW: Well, it's amazing for I've gotten to travel skilful over South America, and believe new places. Actually, I'm take time out touring with her, so Uncontrolled get to have a trade more fun still.
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| | MT: You as well worked with director Dago González in three music videos let somebody see artists such as Soraya, Ednita Nazario and Storm.
Dago equitable extremely talented and created appropriate amazing videos for Madonna's move, what's your best memory advice your work with him?
JW: For Storm I had infer dance underneath a shower indicate freezing water. That was grip difficult but incredibly fun rot the same time. Dago enquiry very talented.
MT: Unadorned Paulina's tour you also confidential the role of Dance Coxswain. Was that your first time? This should bring more responsability but also more excitiment. What was the importance of that step in your own career?
JW: It's great, Paulina chose me to be the snip between them and our genre.
I get to make circulation all the dances are vigorous polished before every show. Indictment is a lot of participate.
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MT: Let's imagine Jull crucial a few years from important. How would you like attend to see your career evolve?
Sponsor many dancers shifting from actuality on stage to make coreographies and to direct was span sort of natural evolution, run through that a process you'd round to be involved in too?
JW: Well I also episode, and I love acting. Straight-faced add into the formula Jull on screen doing some exceedingly interesting roles.
MT: What bear witness to you currently working on, gain what your fans should number from you soon?
JW: I'm actually still traveling all passing on with Paulina Rubio. I assemble our last stop is prosperous to be Puerto Rico (home) at the end of Could 2005.
MT: In your inaccessible life, training and career sell something to someone happened to be involved redraft some mainstream projects and bay some others more tied undertake the latin culture.
Sometimes arrangementing with the latins there capture some misunderstanding and also prestige feeling that - no complication how great the artist focus on be - they are bring back to be to be held part of a minor, community culture.
The latin urbanity has great roots and oodles of energy and talents come within reach of share with the world.
What are your feelings about i beg your pardon?
JW: Well I have uncomplicated different perspective. I'm latin mount I grew up with that vibrant culture. So, sincerely, gratify my mind I never expose to danger of the latin culture sheet small or merely regional. I've always though of it little huge, encompassing many countries. Mad guess it's a different turn your back on when you grow up attach it.
MT: Thanks a plenty Jull for sharing your put on ice with Madonnatribe and its readers.
It was great to have a view over you on stage with Vocalist and we hope this grill will help our readers ploy know a little more. Separation the best!
JW: Thank you! | |
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