Taylor Swift shattered records and made a worldwide impact with her recently completed “Eras Tour,” but one controversial figure from the dancing world has some choice words about her on-stage performance.
The girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce performed 149 shows in total, visiting 51 cities across five continents and bringing in 10 million fans. The tour generated more than $2 billion in ticket sales, setting an all-time record.
Swift also earned praise for the way she incorporated all of her albums into a single experience — including “The Tortured Poets Department” and re-released “Taylor’s Version” of previous albums “Speak Now” and “1989,” all released during her tour and incorporated into it.
But “Dance Moms” star and noted choreographer Abby Lee Miller believes Swift’s skills on stage were lacking. In an interview on Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast, Miller said Swift’s dance moves were “difficult to watch” but believes tour choreographer Mandy Moore did a great job of hiding her deficiencies.
Miller said Swift “got in trouble” when she tried to match the skills of the professional dancers on stage, but shone when she let them take the spotlight.
“So I think that Mandy Moore, who is a genius, she was so much more intelligent to have Taylor kind of stand and do her own thing and let the other dancers be working in couples or trios and this or that around her — rather than a whole big group of dancers and Taylor doing the same choreography,” Miller said.
Miller also contended that Swift missed a key early period in her life when she could have built up her dance skills.
“I think when she was a little girl, she was hunched over that guitar and she was writing music and creating music and she was working on her voice,” Miller said. “Her mom and dad weren’t doing the dancing school lessons. When she was a little kid, that wasn’t important.”
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