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“Remembering TINA TURNER - The Queen Of Rock”!
Welcome to this special edition of "The Lucas Alexander Show" - "Remembering The Queen of Rock" series, where Lucas Alexander is joined by TINA TURNER´s Costume Designer, CHRISTIAN HOLDER, for a fascinating, in-depth and entertaining conversation about the late, great TINA TURNER, including sharing private and personal letters from Tina. Christian Holder is a highly acclaimed BALLET DANCER, CABARET ARTIST and SINGER, and became Tina Turner´s personal costume designer from 1973 during the days of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, up until 1984, when Tina had her major ground-breaking comeback as a solo artist with "Private Dancer" and the number 1 hit-single "What´s Love Got To Do With It" (also the title of the Oscar-nominated movie made of her life in 1993).
CHRISTIAN HOLDER shares some very captivating, eye-opening and fantastic stories of his life and incredible times with Tina Turner, Ike Turner, the tumultuous days of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, his life as a ballet dancer and how his work inspired Tina´s performances. He also shares fascinating stories about the people who worked for Tina and how she eventually inspired his spiritual beliefs. This is an amazing account of an ARTIST working with and for an ARTIST because he wanted to and wished for this to happen!
Lucas Alexander (Presenter, Interviewer and Investigative Reporter) goes in-depth with Christian Holder about his amazing life-story with the QUEEN OF ROCK, who sadly passed away on May 24, 2023. It´s a 4-hour extravaganza including countless of Tina Turner photos and film clips, and never a dull moment.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Arthur Christian Holder (born 18 June 1949) is a British-Trinidadian artist who has worked in many fields - like his father Boscoe Holder: as a dancer, choreographer, actor, teacher, costume designer, writer, painter and singer. He is most notable as "one of the most iconic dancers of the Joffrey company in the 1970s, perhaps in its history."
In 1963 Holder was one of a select group of young dancers to be offered scholarships by Martha Graham to study at her school in New York City, so as to return to London "to be charter members of what was to become London Contemporary Dance Theatre". The following year his parents saw him off to the US.
He went on to enrol as a student at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where he was spotted by Robert Joffrey. Joining the Joffrey Ballet, Holder remained with the company from 1966 to 1979, becoming one of their most acclaimed principal dancers, performing as a soloist with choreographers including Kurt Jooss (who personally trained Holder for the lead role of "Death" in a revival of his 1932 anti-war ballet, The Green Table), Leonid Massine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, and Agnes De Mille. A New York Magazine review in 1971 typically commented: "...Christian Holder, lithe, tremendously powerful and totally individual, dominates the stage whenever he is given solo work to do.... Up the Joffrey! Onward, Christian Holder!"
From 1979 to 1981 he appeared as guest solo dancer with San Francisco Opera, dancing in productions starring Luciano Pavarotti, and Placido Domingo, and choreographed their productions of The Merry Widow with Dame Joan Sutherland and Aida (2001). In 2006, he performed in the Joffrey Ballet’s production of Sir Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, as one of the ugly stepsisters along with Gary Chryst, which roles Joffrey (who died in 1988) had always wanted them to play.
During his career Holder choreographed ballets including Weren't We Fools? for American Ballet Theatre and Transcendence for Atlanta Ballet, appeared in repertory theatre productions and musicals, and has designed costumes for ballets including Margo Sappington's Toulouse-Lautrec (2000) for the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse, France. He has also designed costumes for Tina Turner (between 1974 and 1984), Ann Reinking and others. In addition, Holder has taught ballet at Steps On Broadway in New York City, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, PeriDance, and for Cedar Lake Dance.
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5 апр 2024