.Rihanna’s go-to choreographer talks girl power, diversity and why creating the SavagexFenty NYFW show was the “fashion version of the Grammys.'
Last month in Auckland, the New Zealand Prime Minister announced the appointment of the 27-year-old Los Angeles-based Kiwi dancer and choreographer as “New Zealand’s entertainment and cultural curator” for the 2020 World Expo in Dubai. Goebel will oversee a showcase of music, dance and street art within the New Zealand pavilion at the six-monthlong event, which is expected to attract 25 million visitors.
Then there’s Rihanna, for whom Goebel choreographed performances at the 2016 MTV Music Video Awards, the 2018 Grammy Awards and the two Savage x Fenty shows at New York Fashion Week — a film of the second of which drops Friday on Amazon Prime Video.Originally staged on Sept. 10 at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, the show has been widely hailed as not only one of the highlights of New York Fashion Week, but a kind of Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show 2.0.
She added, “You rarely see just the catwalk. Everyone’s expressing themselves through dance, through music, through posing, through just being free. Even in the casting, Rih doesn’t just pick girls for the way they look, she picks them for their spirit and their energy. Within the cast, you will see girls that are just so un-stereotypical, but who genuinely love themselves and they love their bodies.
Goebel boasts Samoan, Chinese and Scottish ancestry, and although raised in Auckland — the world’s largest Polynesian city, with Pacific Islanders making up 15 percent of the city’s 1.6 million population — she said she was teased and bullied for the way she looked at the very white primary school her parents sent her to.She took jazz, ballet and tap classes at age eight, then discovered hip-hop at age 10. At 15, she dropped out of school to pursue dancing full time.
In February 2012, when Goebel was just 19, a YouTube video tribute to the late Etta James that she had made with fellow choreographer, Kyle Hanagami, caught the attention of J.Lo, whose team reached out and asked Goebel to work on Lopez’s 2012 “Dance Again” world tour.
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