![]() I created an environment in the songs and the production that was very organic, emotional, that would be childhood-it was very wooden, because I come from the countryside. I decided to make the show very visual and to create that transition through all kinds of materials in a symbolic way. WOODKID: The project is about the transition from childhood to adulthood. GERRY VISCO: So you use the name Woodkid? I’m sure you’ve been asked a thousand times, but what the hell is that all about? He calls himself a “photograffeur,” since he uses the streets as his art gallery. JR’s huge photographs were illegally pasted on the streets. JR, the award-winning artist, conceived and directed the ballet based upon his experiences during the 2005 riots in Les Bosquets, a Parisian housing project inhabited by immigrants. The ballet will be performed by more than 40 NYCB dancers and Guest Artist Lil Buck, the Memphis jookin dancer who has worked with Madonna and Yo-Yo Ma. Woodkid has composed an original score for an eight-minute pièce d’occasion for the New York City Ballet Orchestra titled Les Bosquets (New Woodkid/JR) that will premiere on tonight, April 29, at the opening of the Company’s 2014 Spring Season. The Sunday Times of London described him as a “dark epic pop wunderkind.” He often spends an entire year on his videos and “Run Boy Run,” his single, was nominated for a 2013 Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video. Woodkid released his first EP, Iron, in 2011 and The Golden Age, his first album, in 2013. He was born in Poland under the name Yoann Lemoine in Poland and raised in France, and he’s currently living in Williamsburg. He made a sad remix of Pharrell Williams’ hit “Happy,” which currently has over 1,600,000 YouTube views. Lord until the sun goes down, 'till it goes down.Woodkid is a critically acclaimed director, artist, producer, and musician who directed videos for pop stars Lana Del Rey, Drake, Rihanna, and Katy Perry. It's all night pourin', pourin', pourin', Ran into a rainstorm, I ducked back into Novato. That's why if you please, I am on my bendin knees, Heard a voice al callin', Lord you was commin' after me. I had a feelin' I was fallin', fallin', fallin', Try to see what's goin' down, try to read between the lines That's why if you please, I am on my bendin' knees,īertha don't you come around here anymore.ĭressed myself in green, I went down unto the sea. ![]() ![]() Run around the corner, corner, Lord run smack in to a tree. I had a run in, run around, and run down. I was all night running, running, Lord I wonder if you care, ![]() I had a hard run, runnin' from your window. I told Althea I'm a roving son, and I was born to be a bachelor.Īlthea told me, okay, that's fine, so now I'm trying to catch her.Ĭan't talk to you without talking to me, we're guilty of the same old thing.īeen talking alot about less and less and forgetting the love we bring. This space is getting hot, you know this space is getting hot. There are things you can replace, and others you cannot. Gonna want a bed to lay your head and a little sympathy. When the smoke has cleared, she said, that's what she said to me. Loose with the truth, baby, it's your fire, but baby don't get burned. Honest to the point of recklessness, self-centered in the extreme.Īin't nobody messing with you, but you, your friends are getting most concerned. You may meet the fate on Ophelia, sleeping and penchence to dream. You may be a clown in the burying ground, or just another pretty face. You may be Saturday's child, all alone, moving with a tinge of grace. I told Althea that treachery was tearing me limb from limb.Īlthea told me better cool down boy, settle back, easy Jim. I told Althea I was feeling lost, lacking in some direction.Īlthea told me upon scrutiny that my back might need protection.
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