Rain nearly canceled Lady Gaga’s summer Olympics performance, according to her choreographer
Regarding Gaga’s performance at the Olympic opening ceremony, choreographer Maud le Pladec told «Variety» that «we had to be extremely cautious.»
According to reports, Lady Gaga’s once-in-a-lifetime performance at the 2024 Summer Olympics was extremely «dangerous» labor. The 38-year-old diva astonished onlookers on Friday,
July 26 at the opening ceremony by performing an electrifying rendition of Zizi Jeanmaire’s «Mon Truc en Plumes» while dancing down a gilded staircase beside the Seine river in Paris.
While the high-spirited performance proceeded without any major issues, Variety was informed by choreographer Maud le Pladec—
who spent months working with Gaga to prepare for the opening number of the Olympics—that it was almost canceled because of the inclement weather.
«Unfortunately, once we knew for sure that it was going to rain, it was the only [performance] that, for safety reasons, we had to pre-record late in the afternoon,»
le Pladec said in a recent interview, adding that the ensemble was operating on «minute-by-minute updates.»
She went on, «We had never in our lives watched the weather forecast so closely.» Even with a few drops of rain, we determined that the performers would be in too much danger.
We would have liked to pre-record it rather than cancel it because [Gaga] wanted to do it completely.
