TINA TURNER: Designer CHRISTIAN HOLDER "Life, Adventures, Work for ROCK QUEEN [Lucas Alexander Show]
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- Опубликовано: 5 апр 2024
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“Remembering TINA TURNER - The Queen Of Rock”!
Welcome to this special edition of "The Lucas Alexander Show" - "Remembering The Queen of Rock" series, where Lucas Alexander is joined by TINA TURNER´s Costume Designer, CHRISTIAN HOLDER, for a fascinating, in-depth and entertaining conversation about the late, great TINA TURNER, including sharing private and personal letters from Tina. Christian Holder is a highly acclaimed BALLET DANCER, CABARET ARTIST and SINGER, and became Tina Turner´s personal costume designer from 1973 during the days of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, up until 1984, when Tina had her major ground-breaking comeback as a solo artist with "Private Dancer" and the number 1 hit-single "What´s Love Got To Do With It" (also the title of the Oscar-nominated movie made of her life in 1993).
CHRISTIAN HOLDER shares some very captivating, eye-opening and fantastic stories of his life and incredible times with Tina Turner, Ike Turner, the tumultuous days of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, his life as a ballet dancer and how his work inspired Tina´s performances. He also shares fascinating stories about the people who worked for Tina and how she eventually inspired his spiritual beliefs. This is an amazing account of an ARTIST working with and for an ARTIST because he wanted to and wished for this to happen!
Lucas Alexander (Presenter, Interviewer and Investigative Reporter) goes in-depth with Christian Holder about his amazing life-story with the QUEEN OF ROCK, who sadly passed away on May 24, 2023. It´s a 4-hour extravaganza including countless of Tina Turner photos and film clips, and never a dull moment.
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BIOGRAPHY:
Arthur Christian Holder (born 18 June 1949) is a British-Trinidadian artist who has worked in many fields - like his father Boscoe Holder: as a dancer, choreographer, actor, teacher, costume designer, writer, painter and singer. He is most notable as "one of the most iconic dancers of the Joffrey company in the 1970s, perhaps in its history."
In 1963 Holder was one of a select group of young dancers to be offered scholarships by Martha Graham to study at her school in New York City, so as to return to London "to be charter members of what was to become London Contemporary Dance Theatre". The following year his parents saw him off to the US.
He went on to enrol as a student at the High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where he was spotted by Robert Joffrey. Joining the Joffrey Ballet, Holder remained with the company from 1966 to 1979, becoming one of their most acclaimed principal dancers, performing as a soloist with choreographers including Kurt Jooss (who personally trained Holder for the lead role of "Death" in a revival of his 1932 anti-war ballet, The Green Table), Leonid Massine, Jerome Robbins, Alvin Ailey, and Agnes De Mille. A New York Magazine review in 1971 typically commented: "...Christian Holder, lithe, tremendously powerful and totally individual, dominates the stage whenever he is given solo work to do.... Up the Joffrey! Onward, Christian Holder!"
From 1979 to 1981 he appeared as guest solo dancer with San Francisco Opera, dancing in productions starring Luciano Pavarotti, and Placido Domingo, and choreographed their productions of The Merry Widow with Dame Joan Sutherland and Aida (2001). In 2006, he performed in the Joffrey Ballet’s production of Sir Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, as one of the ugly stepsisters along with Gary Chryst, which roles Joffrey (who died in 1988) had always wanted them to play.
During his career Holder choreographed ballets including Weren't We Fools? for American Ballet Theatre and Transcendence for Atlanta Ballet, appeared in repertory theatre productions and musicals, and has designed costumes for ballets including Margo Sappington's Toulouse-Lautrec (2000) for the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse, France. He has also designed costumes for Tina Turner (between 1974 and 1984), Ann Reinking and others. In addition, Holder has taught ballet at Steps On Broadway in New York City, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, PeriDance, and for Cedar Lake Dance.
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Wow! What a treat this show is! Lucas, you are such a thoughtful and intelligentinterviewer and Christian Holder is such a worthy and fascinating guest. To get such an inside scoop on the life and career of Tina Turner in 2024 is wonderful. In the way Tina loved her life she perfectlyembodied the Lotus just as Christian says. What a wonderful image. Chris' stories and experiences are so well worth knowing. What an amazing man!
Wow, Lucas! This is soooo awesome to have Christian here.
This interview was so excellent!!!!! 💯💯💯💯💯❤
His storytelling is simply fascinating!❤❤❤
Great interview Lucas Alexander with Christian. I enjoyed it
Oh my, just imagine being in his shoes as a fan? You always have wonderful and interesting guests. What a precious and magical experience 💗 Wonderful stories and what a lovely man ❤
What a Beautiful interviewer you and Christian Holder did on Tina she was a Beautiful lady Rest in peace Tina🙏🕊️
Mr Holder is a sweet man.
THIS WAS AMAZING!!!!!
Great interview. Very entertaining. Thank you
Amazing interview
Fascinating interview with a beautiful and interesting man!
I've just watched the whole thing.
So interesting that i think we need a part 2!
Really enjoyed your show
Thank you very much Lucas, I enjoyed your 4hr interview with Christian Holder. I could have listen to him speak about Tina for 4 more hours or longer. I never was able to see Elvis live "The King of Rock-en Roll", now I will never see Tina live "The Queen of Rock-en Roll", but believe I have seen her through the eyes of Mr. Holder. So I thank you very much. I do watch her concert video's, miss her so much.
Wow, what an amazing interview! And amazing man! It is so nice to hear first-hand stories about Tina. Loved every second of it, thank you Lucas and thank you Christian for sharing all those precious memories and artefacts❤
Thank you Lucas. This was a wonderful presentation, a historical one. I could see what it meant to the two of you. I loved Tina and miss her a great deal. She was one of a kind and she left quietly without any word, the way only fantastic people do. We will all miss her. She affected us all in so many ways. Bless you. ❤
❤ Always such fabulous guests! Beautiful!❤
Love all the guest you have on.
I dont remember seeing a notification for this, as a subscriber. Fortunately my app is set to autoplay and I get some great listening while I work. I could listen to the stories all day.
This is a FANTASTIC show about the beautiful Tina Turner ❤❤ I love your shows Lucas, you are the best interviewer ever no matter what the subject matter is. Thanks for the indepth questions 💖😻 Christian Holder is an amazing raconteur and story teller and he obviously made great costumes for Tina. Nice to listen to Mr. Holder who never stops talking, even when Lucas is trying to ask some questions, but he manages to ask his questions anyway as a reporter should. 😅
Yes he is great because he shows how he really loves and admire our beloved TINA❤ and he is very very gentle man
Lucus, you along with Christian, Eddy, Rhonda and many others have done an outstanding job of opening the door a little bit more to Tina's world. Thank you. This was amazing.
Thank you so much ❤❤
I ❤️ hearing about Tina
Thank you so much Lucas for the BIG GIFT 🥰 you don’t know how much I miss Tina😔 but I always think that she’s always here thanks to you😘
SIMPLY HEARTFELT 💖
Just saw your interview and let me tell you, it is one of the best interviews I have seen someone do about her, I thoroughly enjoyed all (almost) 4 hours of it. It could not have turned up on a better day. Christian’s expressions as he told the stories - ‘priceless’. However, I wished in the end it worked out where they both were still in contact with each other and he had gotten to meet with her - he’s so understanding but as understanding as I am, THAT would have killed me inside. T is (yeah not ready to let her go yet) such an extraordinary person and I love hearing stories about her although I don’t listen to all, I choose my interviews/stories. Thank you so so so much Lucas for this, it was very much appreciated and again thoroughly enjoyed. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Amazing interview, thank you to you both. I loved hearing Christian's stories and fascinating insights about Tina.
Thank you Lucas for this uplifting interview. Both you and Christian speak of Tina with so much love. After a year it’s still impossible to believe that all of her energy and that beautiful smile are no longer with us. It has been so difficult for all Tina fans to not have any closure but these tributes that you are giving us have a way of filling that void. Thank you so much for your efforts.
Thank you so much! 🙏❤️🔥 Means a lot….
Kudos to Rhonda for giving so much of herself for Tina though 50+ years
Another great interview! 25:40 “golden mosquito” that’s probably a great way to describe her stage entrance and performance. I always love hearing stories of when fans first heard or saw Tina. We all have our first time Tina stories and I bet each one is a story in its own. 👍🏼
I am so happy to see your here 🙏🙏❤
Tina ❤❤
Fantastic interview! Thanks Lucas.
42:32, even coming from family of pioneers and being a trailblazer himself, look at the humbleness in his eyes. That drive and gut to sell you to someone is priceless. He dared to bet on himself. And here we are. #betOnYourself
I just saw Tina the musical on the 8th of May and now this appears. What a gift! I'm so thankful you do these. I've been a daily fan for 40 years. Tina has been such a part of my life for so long. I'm so grateful that all of our lives coincided. I can feel her energy even now...watching this. Wonderful.✌️🐲🔱☄️✨️💚
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Her mud became one thing with the lotus flower she was ❤
Kudos to Rhonda for giving so much of herself for Tina though 50+ years……Tina was a real Queen….Azid Queen ….Queen of the jungle inspired zeena …Aunty entity Queen and Queen of Rock n Roll
Ann Thomas is trifling to me. She had no respect for Tina Turner. Ann knew Tina and Ike were married. I wonder if Ann Thomas ever sent Tina a letter or phone call to apologize to Tina.
I was thinking the same..wondering if she ever apologized......
Luv sexy ida❤❤
Rhonda Graam was obsessed with Tina Turner. She had no life of her own. She probably was a Lesbian. It is interesting Rhonda Graam was at Oprah Winfrey Legend Ball with Tina. I wonder what Erwin thought about Rhonda always around since he hated Eddy Armani Hampton around
I think is none of our business if Rhonda Graam is lesbian she’s not damaging anybody she’s the one who help Tina in time of need and I saw one of Tina’s concert at the end written “a special that thanks to Rhonda Graam” their friendship was strong
Eddie Armani said that Rhonda was a lesbian … closeted ….
Fantastic interview ❤️🙏🏼Is the Asian designer Christian references at 2hrs.19 Kaisik Wong? He did exquisite Egyptian Deco designs en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisik_Wong
Thank you very much ❤️🙏 Yes I believe it was Kaisik Wong 😎