People online went crazy for Rih doing the South African 'gwara gwara' dance. And the idea was to put moves that you would never expect Rihanna to do and never expect to go with the song and kind of mash it all together and create a whole new style of dance. I had Fred Astaire, all these African school kids that have been going viral, Paris Crazy Horse videos, Bob Fosse was a huge inspiration, I even had some videos of random people on Youtube dancing. What was the inspiration? This concept came from this edit of different dance videos from Youtube and old archive videos that I had put together. There was such a wide range of dance styles and influences in the performance. We had ten days with our dancers, and one day with Bryson Tiller and DJ Khaled. Our early rehearsals were definitely a mess and it took us a long time to figure out how to create this wild dance scene, but at the same time have it feel really clean and graphic. What's the main challenge of staging something as complex as that? It was a huge challenge. I worked with Tanisha Scott and Parris Goebel, and I'm all about creative collaboration, so it created this awesome energy. I'm all about enjoying the process as much as the final product. She loved the concept off the bat and then we had rehearsals for ten days and she was there almost everyday. She said it's very rare that she lets people just ride, and she said, "I just let you ride." It was amazing. We're so on the same page creatively, which is always amazing. Is she very involved or more hands off? Definitely a bit of both. I've worked on a lot of concepts and treatments with her, and then this came to fruition. I first worked with her exactly two years ago. What was it like to work with Rihanna on this? At the Grammys on Sunday, one performance stood out in particular for its staging, energy and most of all, choreography: Rihanna, DJ Khaled and Bryson Tiller's rendition of their inescapable summer mega hit "Wild Thoughts." We spoke with creative director and frequent Rihanna collaborator Philippa Price about what it takes to put a performance like that together.
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