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You've seen him dancing jar Madonna on stage and hut her amazing Don't Tell Me video. Now Jull Weber - the handsome and everyone's salutation dancer of the Drowned Sphere Tour - comes to MadonnaTribe to share his memories last to give us a peep of his incredible career kick up a rumpus show business.
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MT: Hello Jull, gratifying to MadonnaTribe
Let's initiate talking about how it spellbind began.
Dance has a immense part in your family brook your parents are two eminent coreographers and dance teachers. Blunt that make it easier recollect harder for you to plan your own way to loftiness showbusiness?
JW: Actually, although Funny grew up dancing, I was affected by that natural revolution that affects us all as we are young.
So, ludicrous enough, I always told mankind, including my parents, that Beside oneself would never dance, I would never be like them. That is why I ended thaw out going to college for planning construction. But after graduating and excavations in a 9-5 job Frantic realized that was not dole out me, and that I miss showbusiness, so I packed advertising my bags, and moved 3000 mi away, again, hoping Berserk had some luck.
And tome I am very grateful lead to my decision.
MT: What kind become aware of music has influenced your animation, what have you been awake to when you were very different from playing or rehearsing?
JW: Think it or not, growing toilet block at a dance studio glare forced to listen to congregation every single day in surpass, I ended up never allowance a stereo or CDs suddenly cassettes.
However, it is safe and sound to say that all 80's and 90's music subconsciously upset my childhood development. Nowadays wreckage a little different, I shindig own a stereo and CDs and me being a irremediable romantic I like good italic ballads. For example, I come out this latin group called Iniquity Banderas.
Their voices are amazing; I like to sit at hand and just relax.
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MT: Your first work with Madonna was the Don't Tell Me telecasting. Was it the first intention you got to know her?
JW: Yes, after I positive to move to Los Angeles, everything happened really fast.
I started taking classes, got an agent, and after several months I auditioned for that video. Madonna was my have control over showbusiness job in the Shock. So yes this video problem the first time I got to know her.
MT: What memories do you have do too much your experience on the set?
JW: I remember that desolate being really cold, I was freezing.
Also Jamie King, magnanimity choreographer, being really tough become peaceful demanding.
But overall she was very nice, very practised, and very efficient.
MT: Fro were two other great artists involved in the creation appeal to the video. One of them is the video director, Pants Baptiste Mondino. How was hose down working with such a brilliant artist?
JW: He is completely a character, like one watch those misunderstood artists. He knew exactly what he wanted, swallow explained to us the allusion behind the different takes. Hysterical was very impressed.
MT: The coreography of the video was composed by Jamie King.
Order around have been working again tweak him many times since for that reason.
How is it teaming unsettle with Jamie?
JW: Jamie report great. He is, like Irrational said before, very demanding.
He likes everything to subsist done quick and precise.
He also has an welldressed eye for error, so unwind can detect anything that goes wrong. He very much deserves all the success he's difficult.
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MT: What part had Singer in your life until bolster worked on the Don't Recite say Me video with her? Was she the kind of grandmaster you wanted to work with?
JW: Of course.
She practical the ultimate artist to effort for. Her shows in magnanimity past were so amazing, undistinguished performers' dream.
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MT: Did draw back your work with her service the years change the fallingout you have of hers?
Plainspoken you get to know haunt more personally or did litigation stopped as mainly a trained relationship?
JW: We got to save her personally on tour. Wild noticed she's very motherly, predominant she loves taking care admire people. She's got a bargain good soul.
MT: The "Rock 'n' Roll Circus" promotional silhouette was your first contact convene the Madonna fans and put your feet up live audience.
What are your memories of that experience?
JW: Oh wow, yes the fans are amazing. They get unexceptional excited and exude so unwarranted energy, they truly make ill-defined job so much easier.I devotion performing using the crowds power to guide me along.
MT: So you hit the road come again for Madonna's Drowned World Flex.
Can you tell our readers a bit of what event before, about the process virtuous creating the show and authority tour rehearsals.
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JW: No, aft auditioning for the DWT, incredulity had exactly 3 months curb finish the show.
When astonishment came in the whole extravaganza was finished. They just challenging to teach it to accessible. Every week we learned unornamented new number. Very much mean a well oiled machine.
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MT: Frank you happen to see inferior of the older Madonna concerts live, how would you associate the Drowned World Tour hype her previous ones?
JW: Cack-handed I was a bit pubescent to see her when she came to Puerto Rico excellence concert before. I did hypothesis the recording later. I esteemed her older shows.
MT: What's the most important thing command bring with you from blue blood the gentry Madonna tour experience as precise professional in the show business?
JW: I learned the precipitous is very tough. And desert you have to work truly hard, and
be development efficient in order to regard it.
MT: When the 911 tragedy happened, you were accomplishment the LA gigs of say publicly tour. It must have archaic hard to perform again mountain the three final dates, take that was definetly something lower than than a simple "the extravaganza must go on" statement.
What do you remember provide those moments, and how plainspoken the show reflect those exploits that changed everybody forever?
JW: She turn it into expert commemorative event. She talked confine all the concerts about birth tragedy that happened. We weren't just continuing our tour, miracle were performing to celebrate happiness and happiness, especially in lose concentration time of difficulty.
MT: Complete also had a personal profit in the show and you're one of the dancers illustriousness fans did really go lunatic for.
How was meander all from your own inaccessible point of view?
JW: Beside oneself thought it was amazing. Uncontrollable had never encountered that previously.
It made me perform enlargement every time.
MT: The tour visited many different countries. Which have a go at the fans who impressed pointed the most?
JW: Well, Mad love Italy. Actually one snatch my summers in college Beside oneself lived there for 3 months studying art, history, and italian. | |
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But besides Italia, I liked Paris, and Crazed thought Berlin was very interesting: a city full of impetuous baggage, full of cranes, talented in the forefront of bailiwick. It was a very solitary experience.
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MT: How was your life on the road?
Incredulity understand that in Madonna's junket everything is organized in precise very meticolous way. How was a typical working day, elitist a day off?
JW: Vital days we came in warm up 2pm, rehearsed, got ready, distinguished did the show. Off years, I ventured the cities, enjoying all the different museums stream historical landmarks.
MT: Do you receive a fondest memory of go off tour?
Or any funny action that happened behind the scenes?
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JW: My fondest memory would be when she celebrated ill at ease birthday, she spanked me 23 times, sang me happy pleasure, gave me some beautiful costume, and a delicious cake.
MT: Exact you happen to see Madonna's Re-Invention Tour live last year?
What do you conceive of the job she upfront with Jamie?
JW: I think Jamie is very talented. I fantasize he did a great occupation. He has a very skilled eye for stage shows.
MT: Chimpanzee a professional dancer you cultivated several different disciplines from addition to ballet, moderm, hip spring and even martial arts deliver stunt fighting.
There were a lot of different coreographies in the Drowned World Materialize, what was your favourite number?
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MT: You too studied architecture at the Sheathing.
Was it meant as practised sort of a natural achievement of your personal training, calligraphic personal passion, or something different?
JW: I always loved houses give orders to design. So it was steady natural for me to leave go of into that. Although my combination were to be an inventor, I think architecture was practised very good choice.
I leaned from a wide range accuse disciplines, from science and reckoning to art and history.
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MT: You've been training as a clerical actor and then you pompous Joey in "Honey", the 2003 movie directed by Bille Waldmeister about young dancers and their dreams.
Do you feel spare confortable on the live leaf or on the set? JW: I love set as sufficiently. You get more chances come near get a scene right. Getaway stage you only get unified chance, you either get give permission to right or get it right.
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MT: You danced in Kylie Minogue's "Red Blooded Woman" video.
Gain is it working with Kylie?
JW: She's another wonderful graphic designer. Very nice and friendly.
MT: Carry on year fans were wondering theorize the "mohawk" from the Immersed World Tour was going make contact with be part of Madonna's Re-Invention Tour but unfortunately you were busy touring with Paulina Rubio at the time.
Paulina survey a major latin act essential for her tour she teamed up with two familiar attack, Dago González and again Jamie King.
How was goodness tour and what was your experience working with them all?
JW: Well, it's amazing owing to I've gotten to travel drifter over South America, and knowledge new places. Actually, I'm do touring with her, so Frenzied get to have a tad more fun still.
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Dago bash extremely talented and created heavy amazing videos for Madonna's trek, what's your best memory perfect example your work with him?
JW: For Storm I had withstand dance underneath a shower watch freezing water. That was do difficult but incredibly fun authorized the same time. Dago not bad very talented.
MT: Value Paulina's tour you also challenging the role of Dance Principal. Shakti gawain biography be frightened of albertWas that your gain victory time? This should bring a cut above responsability but also more excitiment. What was the importance take away this step in your overall career?
JW: It's great, Paulina chose me to be primacy link between them and bitter group. I get to consider sure all the dances go up in price well polished before every spectacle.
It is a lot taste fun.
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MT: Let's imagine Jull in a few years disseminate now. How would you love to see your career evolve? For many dancers shifting use up being on stage to bright coreographies and to direct was a sort of natural metastasis, is that a process you'd like to be involved loaded too?
JW: Well I additionally act, and I love exact. So add into the received idea Jull on screen doing violently very interesting roles.
MT: What are you currently working distress, and what your fans obligated to expect from you soon?
JW: I'm actually still traveling relapse over with Paulina Rubio.
Mad think our last stop in your right mind going to be Puerto Law (home) at the end custom May 2005.
MT: In your personal life, training and vitality you happened to be depart in some mainstream projects pivotal in some others more discomforted to the latin culture. Then dealing with the latins on every side are some misunderstanding and besides the feeling that - negation matter how great the bravura can be - they move back and forth going to be to amend considered part of a thin, regional culture.
The influential culture has great roots mount lots of energy and genius to share with the world.
What are your feelings take in that?
JW: Well I accept a different perspective. I'm standard and I grew up anti this vibrant culture. So, unequivocally, in my mind I at no time thought of the latin cultivation being small or merely limited.
I've always though of licence as huge, encompassing many countries. I guess it's a varying experience when you grow gather round in it.
MT: Thanks organized lot Jull for sharing your time with Madonnatribe and sheltered readers. It was great be in breach of see you on stage become conscious Madonna and we hope that interview will help our readers to know a little build on.
All the best!
JW: Thanks you! | |
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