FKA Twigs is really into martial arts now
in December 2017, she’s practicing a new talent that she’s added to her roster of music, dance and swordfighting: Wushu martial arts, which she discovered through the director Chloe Zhao .
“We kind of had quite a fun but lonely and disastrous Cannes Film Festival together a few years ago,” Twigs recalled. “Chloe was a relatively new director then; she’s now going on and is directing an incredible Marvel movie. We just ended up hanging out together for the whole of Cannes, sort of like two misfits. And she’s Chinese and she said to me like, ‘Oh, you should have a look at Wushu, with your movement and stuff, I think you’d really love it.’ And I was like, OK.
After flying back to L.A., she Googled “Wushu LA” and was able to find a teacher, Master Hu, who choreographed for the Chinese Olympics. He also trained her in sword dance, which she uses in her“I named my sword Lilith [Adam’s first wife], who said she didn’t want to be subservient to men. So she got banished to hell,” FKA Twigs said. Of the sword dance, she admitted, “You can hurt yourself. Yeah, [Lilith] sends me warnings every now and again, but only when I’m not concentrating.
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