Who is the dynamic dancer whose dreary day is transformed into a kaleidoscopic dream with a little help from Siri and the Apple Homepod? That’s 30-year-old dancer/director/singer/songwriter FKA Twigs. The English-born Twigs bolted the suburbs for South London when she was just 17, finding work as a backup dancer for the likes of Kylie Minogue, Jessie J and Ed Sheeran. Twigs work as a musician and dancer often has a spooky quality — see “Video Girl” video below — that makes it easy to see how she was chosen to inhabit the psychedelically imagined world conjured by Siri and the Apple HomePod.
Twigs is also an accomplished video director/producer (see “Ouch, Ouch” — also starring her, below). So when Apple tapped music video super-director Spike Jonze for its HomePod fantasia, Twigs could not only perform but she also implicitly understands the art form from both sides of the camera. FKA Twigs, whose given name is Tahliah Debrett Barnett, is delightfully hard to pin down. Essentially an avant-garde artist, Twigs doesn’t so much bend genres as genres bend to try to describe her work, which has elements of classical dance, theater, hip hop, electronica, and choral styles. The FKA moniker doesn’t stand for anything, she has said.
Here’s the long version of the Apple Siri, Apple HomePod video starring FKA Twigs dancing, directed by Spike Jonze:
