BRIAN: When someone is watching a dance, their neurons are firing.
Your body is actually starting to wire those emotions
and those feelings inside your own brain.
That's why having dancers is so important.
You start to feel that empathy.
- ARIANA: The twins bring, like, a totally new life to songs
that I didn't know could be there.
Once I met them, I never pictured my life without them.
I was, like, "Oh! This is a forever thing."
- You go first. - Me first?
- Yeah, y-- you were born first. - That's true.
- Born first, talk first. - That's true.
So, we are on the tour for about almost eight months
and, uh, we're from Strongsville, Ohio, a little town outside Cleveland.
You know, like, didn't dance till we were 19, like, in college.
So the fact that we were able to get to this point of
being the, the head choreographers for, like, a world tour...
it's amazing.
When we came with the creative for the Sweetener Tour
for Ariana's song "Breathin",
we decided not to have any dancers on stage.
It's going to be more about just Ariana singing her butt off.
But I think we were been kinda itching to do some kind of dancing to it
and to actually, like, get that song on some bodies.
And so I think, this is the perfect time to do it...
is in Switzerland.
It's just special to be openly creative and see where it gets you.
I've never been to Switzerland before,
so first time performing there, but also first time getting to explore.
- This is so beautiful, it's crazy.
- SCOTT: We can have this moment on tour
that we can go and do something outside of the stage
and experiment and create.
And then that can also make us refueled up
with new intention that we could bring on the stage later on.
- Full circle.
- CORY: A lot of times when they...
teach,
it's as if, they talking to each other but not really talking to each other,
like, one will teach the choreography and the other one will...
go into definition as to why we are moving the way we're moving.
- When dancing, there are certain emotions or...
ideas or experiences you can get
from the song that may not have otherwise existed.
- Is it fine? Shall we leave this on? - Yeah.
- I'm the third. I'm the triplet.
I don't know if they failed to mention that or not, but I am.
- ♪ But I don't chair... ♪
- ARIANA: ♪ Chair ♪
I love the life that they bring to my music.
I've never felt more understood.
I've learned so much about what my body's capable of
and, you know, become a lot more comfortable
dancing and moving on stage because of them.
- We first met Ariana in New York City.
We were young dancers, we became, I feel, instant, like, brothers and sisters.
- We're never gonna have to put on a different act
or be somebody different than we actually are.
And I think that's what is the reason she has chosen us
and the reason also we've chosen her.
And I'm funny, so, thank God!
'Cause Brain's the worst, yeah, exactly. You know what I am saying? You feel me?
- CORY: Their bond is amazing.
And then that transcends to everybody else.
- SCOTT: I got through, like, all these years...
The team mentality is super, super important.
I feel like a lot of times, someone gets hired by an artist
and then they, you know, have their job to do.
And then that's it, but this is more than just, "I'm hiring somebody."
We're super lucky we have each other.
- Turn, and then... pssh...
- Not like you're trying to keep him away, but just like...
Growing up, especially in school, I feel like people would say, like,
Scott and I were always a little more effeminate than other dudes, you know?
It's like, this world is very, like, comparative.
Instead of just, like, letting people be however they want, whoever they want.
It's just so hard to find where you fit
and then you realize you don't have to fit anywhere.
- ARIANA: Brian and Scott, both understand
that it's really important to use our platform to make people feel
like, a part of it, and safe and celebrate it
a way that we have always done that with the twins is
their choreography is also very fluid.
- SCOTT: With the Sweetener Tour, when we would cast dancers
and we would call groups to be,
like, let's do all the men, and all the women.
But saying that felt really, um, wrong because that wouldn't do any justice
to the energy of the dance movements. So, we were, like,
oh, let's just change this, let's change the narrative.
- If someone can be like, I don't dance, I'll be there,
but I want to dance more feminine or masculine.
- ARIANA: It's really dope to be able to...
work with choreographers and dancers
that are comfortable performing with both sides of themselves.
- SCOTT: It was sort of an experiment with, like,
the identity of just, like, the energy
rather than just, like, the, the, the general person.
And it became so much more open and the art became more exciting.
- When it comes to the same-sex dancing, it's more so about the human connection
because you are gonna see two people for who they are.
What makes this special is showing people
the connection that they don't even realize they have to it.
- There are moments where our dancers are touching other male dancers
and what an emotional kind of reaction that you have,
whether it's good or bad, it challenges you as a human being.
That, literally, can change anyone's life.
- SCOTT: Go, here we go.
Five, six, seven, eight.
- When we were growing up
I remember, one of, like, the confused kids in my class
would like, ran up to me, was, like...
"You're a..." I'm was like, "I don't know what that means."
I just never got it. Even now, I'm like...
You're taking the entire experience that I've had and putting it down to, like,
masculine, feminine, gay, straight.
People can be different things at different points in their life anyways.
- Even when it came down to sexuality, You know what I'm saying? I feel like...
I don't wanna label myself as anything
because I don't feel like I need to put it in a box.
There's a lot of people who don't fit in those boxes and that's cool.
You know? And I wanna be able to show the world those kind of people.
- MAN: Look at the hate...
- There's been times where there's protesters outside,
where they are protesting obviously who and what Ariana Grande represents,
that goes against their belief in, like, homosexuality is a sin.
When people come into an arena and they are watching your show,
if they go to a certain church that's protesting outside of the arena,
they can come in here, and even if their family doesn't agree,
they can still be in a safe place.
- MAN: You are all hateful, intolerant bigots!
And you all need to repent!
- BRIAN: We just want to operate from a positive situation
of loving people, and that everyone when they can come into the arena,
they can still be in a safe place.
- SCOTT: The stage and the platform Ariana has given Brian and I,
has been to really, like, to express ourselves fully
but also make it about everybody else as well.
- What a beautiful thing to have these fans come in and to feel celebrated.
For the dancers look at them in the eyes and dance together.
- When people who are watching it, they feel like they have a place in the show.
- It's exciting to see somebody living in their truth,
but also being so confident.
- Let's go, Zürich!
- BRIAN: That can be a spring point for them to be, like,
they are on-stage doing the same show all across the world,
I can do this in my own life.
- ♪ Feel my blood runnin' ♪
♪ Swear the sky's fallin' ♪
♪ How do I know if this shit's fabricated? ♪
♪ Time ♪
♪ Just keep breathin' and breathin' and breathin' and breathin' ♪
♪ And I gotta keep ♪
♪ I keep on breathin' ♪
♪ Just keep breathin' and breathin' and breathin' and breathin' ♪
♪ And I gotta keep ♪
♪ I keep on breathin' ♪
♪ Yeah ♪