FKA Twigs began her performance, which ran more than two hours, from a giant white bed.
The set was split into five acts, and the first started with her song “Mirrored Heart.”
Twigs mixed celestial vocals and acrobatic choreography throughout the performance.
Throughout the set, Twigs showed off stunning dance training, blending intense choreography, voguing, and even pole dancing for a style her own.
Billing the night as a show by “Twigs and friends,” Twigs kept the stage packed with dancers for most of the set.
Twigs’ setlist spanned her decades-long career, including releases from her early EPs (like “Video Girl”) and new music from her Grammy-winning album Eusexua.
Twigs brought out an impressive array of dancers, showing her commitment to the queer community by spotlighting ballroom and voguing styles.
So much of what has set Twigs apart is her singular aesthetic and futuristic vision.
Twigs has refined her performance over the last decade. “I’ve always said I want to do every single step. “I feel for artists that have a huge hit, and all of a sudden they have to go and perform in front of huge crowds, and they don’t have their sea legs yet,” she told Rolling Stone. “When you’re performing, you have to get your sea legs.”
After a high-energy ballroom showcase at the end of Act II, Twigs kept going with new songs like “Love Crimes” and “Room of Fools.”
“In my heart, I’m still that seven-year-old onstage, creating giant mushrooms in my head and skipping around in imaginary huge grass fields, but now the stakes are so high,” she told Rolling Stone recently.
Fans showed up in droves and made sure Twigs sold out her first arena show at Madison Square Garden.
Twigs and her dancers showed off their athleticism with moves on the pole.
Everyone onstage gave it their all as Twigs commanded the arena from the center.
The arena performance was also a display of Twigs’ creative eye, packed with an avant-garde, tech-inspired set.
Twigs has described her Grammy-winning album Eusexua as “a pure feeling of being human … a constant state of everything and nothing all at once.” Last year, she released a follow-up called Eusexua Afterglow.
Twigs worked with her team to create incredible formations and impressive staging throughout the show.
“I’ve always been curious about the type of artist that I am, because I’m always discovering that. In the beginning, I thought maybe I was a visual artist or a performance artist.”
Twigs made sure to highlight the people who were part of the show. In addition to all her dancers, Tokischa opened the performance.
“When I think about Eusexua, it’s about accepting yourself and accepting other people. It’s about tolerance, and it’s about presence, and it’s about realizing that we’re so much more than our vessels. We’re these beautiful lights.”
Twigs told Rolling Stone what Eusexua has meant to her. “I’ve always said it’s not exactly a dance album. It’s a love letter to the way that dance music makes me feel and is influenced heavily by dance music. It kind of has this crystal quality, and everything’s very HD, and everything feels very, for me, present.”
Twigs finished the set by herself, clolsing out with a gorgeous rendition of her song “Cellophane.”
As Twigs sang, snow began to fall onstage, adding to the vulnerability of the song.
Twigs grew teary as she performed “Cellophane” and ended the show back on the bed where it all began. Then she took the time to do a final bow with all her dancers.
