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With Beyoncés permission, Grant became one of about 380 dancers to audition for Jacksons producers, including director Kenny Ortega, and stayed in the mix through two auditions as the field was narrowed. At his third, he and the other hopefuls looked out into the audience and saw a man dressed all in black, walking in like the president, with six bodyguards. We were all like, Who is that? But as soon as we saw the hair, we knew it was Michael. And we all started messing up.
Grant says he made a quick decision to throw out the choreography and just wing it Michael wants to feel you onstage, he says. I just thought, I deserve to be on this tour.
Apparently, he wasnt the only one who thought so. He was one of the first to be picked for the final tour and, with the other dancers, went straight into rehearsals at the Staples Center. Grant says the choreography for the eight or nine numbers the dancers would have participated in was a mixture of new steps and ones from Jacksons back catalog, including Smooth Criminal, Bad and Thriller.
The work was challenging, and the boss was exacting.
In the beginning, Michael was very shy. He would come and just wave, Grant remembers. He told us, at first, not to go full out Save your legs. Dont give it away. Save it for the road. But as soon as the music would come on, he would hit it full out.
His moves were about passion and power, and the feelings behind them. He didnt just want dancers. He wanted more than that from us.
Eventually, as Jackson felt more comfortable with the crew, his playful side came out. Grant describes him as very funny, very loud. He loved to have fun, and he always told us, If youre not having fun, whats the point of doing it? Dont call it work. Kenny (Ortega) would be talking, and Michael would be behind him, moving around and mocking him like a little kid. Kenny would say, Michael, are you listening? He was just normal.
Grant says that in those last days of rehearsal, he didnt see anything in Jacksons behavior or physical ability that would have signaled that his energy was flagging, or that he wasnt up to the work. In fact, toward the end, Jackson was increasingly giving it his all, Grant says. Everything that people said about him not wanting to do this none of that was true.
The young dancer had recently gotten some exciting news he would be dancing as Jacksons body double during the Dirty Diana number. During the morning of June 25, Grant was working with the female dancer portraying Diana, when he and the others began to hear rumors that Jackson was in the hospital. They shrugged it off and kept working.
Then the phone calls started Michaels in a coma. Michaels not breathing. Is he dead? Grant remembers. We started getting worried. It happened so fast.
Soon, director Ortegas phone rang, and from a distance you could see his whole body collapse.
Finally, his assistant said, Hes gone, and started crying.
Grant pauses, takes a deep breath.
I dont like to talk about it, he continues, softly. We felt he was gone. You know how it is when someone passes away. The whole Staples Center felt like there was a ghost there.
After Jacksons death, Grant wanted to run away back to West Palm Beach, but his mother encouraged him to stay in Los Angeles to see the process through. He and the other dancers were asked to be involved in the memorial service, first performing the emotional ballad Will You Be There with Hudson, which was hard for me. During the rehearsal, I just couldnt do it. When we were doing the sad songs, I just couldnt handle it.
His big performance was supposed to have been about celebrating with Michael.
We were waiting for that first day, that first prayer with Michael before the show, Grant says. But its all a lesson learned. We have to find our own lesson (in this) in our own time.
Even though time has passed, and though Grant is back in West Palm Beach working on his next career move, reminders of what might have been, including This Is It, are everywhere. Grant says he believes Jackson wanted the rehearsals shot as behind-the-scenes footage for the inevitable tour DVD, but that the performer never intended for most of it to be public.
In fact, he wonders what Jackson, a noted perfectionist, would think of all this.
Michael doesnt like his rehearsals to be out, he says. He doesnt like to show the process. He wants people to see the finished product.
I just hope (the movie) shows the real Michael, and isnt (being released) just to make money off it. I hope it balances out and makes people understand, to feel what we felt.
In it, youre going to see a lot of involvement from Michael, him being in charge.
Grant is taking charge of his own career. Hes still taking vocal lessons, is working to start an indie label and is recording what he calls a mix tape.
I learned from Michael not to let people distract you.
And even though he doesnt want to wind up as someones backup dancer, he is very grateful for the time when, briefly, he was.
I want to show what I learned from him, his teaching me that anything is possible, Grant says. I made it this far, to meet the greatest.
I always said I was gonna dance with him. And I finally did it.
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