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Beyonce Announces 2023 Renaissance World Tour

The 41-show global outing kicks off in Stockholm in May.

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The announcement photo may look familiar to fans, as she donned the same glittery attire on the cover of her seventh studio album. Bey also added “Renaissance World Tour” on her Instagram bio, further accenting the news. Last week, Beyonce performed a full concert for the first time in four years at a luxury resort in Dubai in front of influencers and journalists. The 19-song set included a collaboration with her oldest daughter Blue Ivy as the two performed “Brown Skin Girl,” which earned them a Grammy two years ago for best music video.

Crowned a triumphant win by music lovers, Renaissance stormed to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 last year and rattled off two Hot 100 top 10 hits, including her chart-topper “Break My Soul.” The dance-centric album also notched nine Grammy nominations, the most for any nominee for this year’s ceremony. Bey is looking to rack up more trophy wins, as she currently sits at a staggering 28 wins. Nominated for album of the year, song, and record of the year, Bey is facing some stout competition , especially in the former. The R&B juggernaut will tango against Adele, Harry Styles, Kendrick Lamar, Bad Bunny, and more for album of the year. A win in this category would serve as Beyonce’s first. The 65th Grammy Awards will occur Sunday night in Los Angeles at 8 pm EST.

Check out Beyonce’s Instagram post and 2023 Renaissance dates below.

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2023 Renaissance European dates :

May 10 — Stockholm, SE @ Friends Arena

May 14 — Brussels, BE @ King Baudouin Stadium

May 17 — Cardiff, UK @ Cardiff Principality Stadium

May 20 — Edinburgh, UK @ BT Murrayfield Stadium

May 23 — Sunderland, UK @ Stadium of Light

May 26 — Paris, FR @ Stade de France

May 29 — London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

May 30 — London, UK @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

June 8 — Barcelona, ES @ Olympic Stadium

June 11 — Marseille, FR @ Orange Velodrome

June 15 — Cologne, DE @ Rhein Energie Stadion

June 17 — Amsterdam, NL @ Johan Cruijff Arena

June 21 — Hamburg, DE @ Volksparkstadion

June 24 — Frankfurt, DE @ Deutsche Bank Park

June 27 — Warsaw, PL @ PGE Narodowy

2023 Renaissance North American dates :

July 8 — Toronto, CA @ Rogers Centre

July 12 — Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field

July 15 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium

July 17 — Louisville, KY @ Cardinal Stadium

July 20 — Minneapolis, MN @ Huntington Bank Stadium

July 22 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field

July 26 — Detroit, MI @ Ford Field

July 29 — East Rutherford, NJ @ Metlife Stadium

August 1 — Boston, MA @ Gillete Stadium

August 3 — Pittsburgh, PA @ Heinz Field

August 5 — Washington, DC @ Fedex Field

August 9 — Charlotte, NC @ Bank Of America Stadium

August 11 — Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes Benz Stadium

August 16 — Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium

August 18 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium

August 21 — St. Louis, MI @ Dome at America’s Center

August 26 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium

August 30 — San Francisco, CA @ Levi’s Stadium

Sept. 2 — Inglewood, CA @ Sofi Stadium

Sept. 11 — Vancouver, BC @ BC Place

Sept. 13 — Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field

Sept. 18 — Kansas City, KS @ Arrowhead Stadium

Sept. 21 — Dallas, TX @ AT&T Stadium

Sept. 23 — Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium

Sept. 27 — New Orleans, LA @ Caesars Superdome

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Everything We Learned from Night One of Beyoncé’s Renaissance World Tour

I t’s the moment everyone’s been waiting for: Beyoncé finally kicked off her Renaissance World Tour in Stockholm, Sweden , Wednesday night. This comes close to a year after the release of her seventh album, RENAISSANCE , a period during which she has rarely acknowledged the album with interviews or public performances of the new music, nor put out any music videos to accompany the songs. Nonetheless, the BeyHive was still buzzing with excitement on social media as they shared clips of the stage, the merchandise, the view from different VIP sections, and, most importantly, the artist performing the songs live for the first time.

Beyoncé is gearing up for a second night at the Friends Arena in Stockholm. As she gets ready to hit the stage, let’s take a look at what was revealed in the first show that might offer an indication of what could happen on the rest of the highly anticipated tour. A lot has already happened—from Bey herself addressing the lack of visuals to her celebration of the LGBTQ+ community, in keeping with the themes of the album.

Here’s everything we learned from night one of the Renaissance World Tour.

Beyoncé said not to rush a queen for music videos

omg not beyoncé addressing the visuals i’m crying 😭 #RenaissanceWorldTour pic.twitter.com/xQ9AkBCp3p — rasmus (@rasmusbravado) May 10, 2023

If we haven’t learned by now, Beyoncé releases things when she is good and ready . This is her first solo album since 2016’s Lemonade , so we can’t act surprised that she told her fans to be patient and stop asking about the music videos. Her last solo albums, Lemonade , Beyoncé , and The Gift (a concept album for The Lion King ), all had visual components that included music videos for each song. This built up the expectation that RENAISSANCE would get the same treatment.

Beyoncé is online and knows her fans have been hounding her, and she has finally responded. During a break on the first night, a disembodied voice addressed the crowd as the words it spoke were displayed on stage: “Aww, you mad? Well, there’s no remedy for that, bitches… I know you’ve asked for the visuals. You’ve called for the Queen. But a Queen moves at her own pace, bitch. Decides when she wants to give you a f-cking taste. So get your fork and your spoon if you got one.”

She is cutting out some of her biggest hits to make room for the new album and deep cuts

Attendees at the concert in Stockholm filmed every moment for the world to see on social media, and many of Beyoncé’s fans were quite surprised by some of the songs she decided to perform. She opened the show with “Dangerously In Love” from her debut album of the same name and ran through a string of popular songs, both mainstream hits and fan favorites. At the opening night show, she also performed songs like “Rather Die Young,” “Flaws and All,” and “Black Parade,” which have not gotten much attention from Beyoncé in recent memory.

Some of Beyoncé’s most popular songs, many of which she has made a point to perform on past tours, are notably missing from the set list. “Run The World” fans, do not worry: she still performs the song. But those who are fans of “If I Were a Boy,” “Single Ladies,” and “Halo,” a notorious closer for Beyoncé—as evidenced by the Homecoming concert film and her Formation World Tour— may be disappointed.

Beyoncé did NOT perform her hit songs “Single Ladies”, ”If I Were a Boy” and “Halo” at the opening night of her #RENAISSANCEtour show in Sweden. pic.twitter.com/ejXi5b7fXf — Buzzing Pop (@BuzzingPop) May 10, 2023

Beyoncé brought back the Les Twins, who have accompanied her on multiple tours and performances

The Les Twins, Laurent and Larry, were approached by Beyoncé years ago after a video of them dancing went viral and they appeared on The Ellen DeGeneres Show . They were invited to perform with Beyoncé at the Billboard Music Awards in 2011, and she took them on the road with her for the Mrs. Carter World Tour, her joint On The Run Tour with Jay-Z, and her Coachella performance in 2018 . Her fans were excited to see the Les Twins back on stage with her for this new tour.

Beyoncé performing Thique and Les Twins are officially back 😭 #RenaissanceWorldTour pic.twitter.com/zPKiGAPCjG — J (@wenttojarrett) May 10, 2023

It was gay as hell: An unabashed celebration of the LGBTQ+ community

In the lead-up to the album, Beyoncé dedicated the project to her Uncle Johnny, who battled HIV when she was young. He is referenced in the song “HEATED,” and in the outro of the song, Beyoncé takes on the role of MC at a ball (a queer dance party) where she starts “reading.” All of these influences took center stage at the Renaissance World Tour and will make a strong statement when it comes stateside in July, given the wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation being introduced across the country.

BEYONCÉ IS HEATED😭😭😭 #RENAISSANCEtour pic.twitter.com/ddL9s1ByUA — 𝗱𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆🫧💚 (@beyoncegarden) May 10, 2023

One of the biggest displays of affection for her queer fans came even before the concert started. As concertgoers poured into the stadium, they were greeted with a fake TV error screen, but if you look closely, some of the colors are different. This error screen has the colors of the progress pride flag, which includes colors from the transgender pride flag, as well as brown and black to indicate the greater discrimination experienced by those members of the community. Twitter users joked, “Nashville is gonna be ready to arrest Beyoncé for this, lord Jesus,” referencing the state’s attempt to ban drag shows and broader attempts across the US to infringe on trans people’s rights.

Nashville is gonna be ready to arrest Beyoncé for this lord Jesus pic.twitter.com/jAz6ObNSEQ — 💫 (@heyjaeee) May 10, 2023

There is also a ball that happens in the show. Beyoncé makes space for her dancers to vogue and dance to her song, “PURE/HONEY.”

BEYONCÉ HOSTING A BALL IS SO WILD TO ME OMG pic.twitter.com/1JwnRMX8TR — Pocket (@islandthembo) May 10, 2023

Some people might recognize Honey Balenciaga from The House of Balenciaga, which appeared in season two of HBO Max’s Legendary . She was seen voguing on stage with the rest of Beyoncé’s dancers.

@legendaryvoguex HONEY BALENCIAGA @Honey. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE THE IT GIRL #RENAISSANCE ♬ original sound - Legendary Vogue X

As we’ve seen with other tours from major artists like Harry Styles, Taylor Swift, and the 1975, their fervent fan base will keep everyone up to date on all the song changes, new outfits, and surprises that these artists pull out of their bag of tricks on the road. As we’ve seen with Swift’s notoriously sold-out Eras Tour, her fans made sure to give people who couldn’t get tickets a chance to see the tour play out online. Based on how night one played out, it seems like Beyoncé’s fans will be doing the same for those of us stuck at home.

Correction, May 11: The original version of this story misgendered Honey Balenciaga. She uses she/her pronouns.

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Renaissance tour: Beyoncé’s three-night run at SoFi Stadium was a ridiculously star-studded affair

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Who run the world? Beyoncé, of course.

In May, the megastar embarked on her five-month Renaissance world tour .

In January, the “Break My Soul” hitmaker unveiled dates for her first solo tour in more than six years. Named after her Grammy-winning seventh studio album, Beyoncé’s highly anticipated Renaissance tour launched May 11 in Stockholm, and it’s set to conclude Sept. 27 in New Orleans.

“Y’all make me so happy,” the “Cuff It” singer said during opening night at Stockholm’s Friends Arena.

“I see familiar faces, people that flew from very, very far to come see the first show tonight. Y’all could be anywhere in the world, but you chose to be here with me. And I’m here with you, and I love you, and I’m so filled with gratitude.”

Beyoncé launches Renaissance tour with 37-song set list, dazzling costumes

Beyoncé has launched her Renaissance tour in Sweden. The three-hour show was a spectacle-filled production, but fans were hung up on a potential snag.

May 11, 2023

Before tickets even went on sale, Ticketmaster reported that demand for the Renaissance tour had “drastically” exceeded supply . According to Beyoncé’s website, the majority of her upcoming shows have sold out, prompting some dedicated members of the Beyhive to travel to other countries and continents just to see their queen.

Beyoncé’s 37-song set list spans her two-decade career. The three-hour show includes all 16 tracks from “Renaissance,” as well as classics such as “Dangerously in Love” and “Run the World (Girls).” While on the road, the 41-year-old entertainer has continued to dazzle concertgoers with frequent costume changes and elaborate production designs featuring silver moon rovers and an inflatable horse.

Toward the end of her Renaissance era, Beyoncé is scheduled to play Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara (Aug. 30) and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood (Sept. 1, 2 and 4). Here’s a sampling of viral moments from the tour so far.

SoFi Stadium shows pack some serious star power

Who attended Beyoncé’s three-night stand at SoFi Stadium? More like who didn’t.

A stunning array of stars came out to see the performer in Inglewood, where she celebrated her 42nd birthday in style. Prince Harry and Meghan, LeBron James, Blackpink’s Jennie — figures from all corners of the entertainment industry gathered in Los Angeles over the weekend to see Queen Bey (and Blue Ivy!).

Heck, Diana Ross even joined Beyoncé onstage to surprise and serenade the superstar for her birthday during her final SoFi performance. Here’s a sampling of celebs spotted at the stadium during Beyoncé’s takeover.

• Hailey Bieber
• Justin Bieber
• Timothée Chalamet
• Lana Condor
• Jesse Tyler Ferguson
• Tiffany Haddish
• Harry, Duke of Sussex
• Tom Holland
• LeBron James
• Kendall Jenner
• Kris Jenner
• Kylie Jenner
• Jennie of Blackpink
• Khloé Kardashian
• Kim Kardashian
• Brie Larson
• Meghan, Duchess of Sussex
• Naomi Osaka
• Keke Palmer
• Pedro Pascal
• Sarah Paulson
• Tyler Perry
• Tracee Ellis Ross
• Kelly Rowland
• Maya Rudolph
• Robin Thede
• Gabrielle Union
• Sofía Vergara
• Kerry Washington

Beyoncé sets a shiny dress code ahead of her birthday

You won’t break my soul, nor Beyoncé’s “Renaissance” dress code.

Heading into the final weeks of her tour, the “Alien Superstar” singer told her Beyhive that she wants them to dress for her upcoming 42nd birthday on Sept. 4.

“Virgo season is upon us,” she wrote on her website .

“This tour has been such a joy and as we approach the last month, my birthday wish is to celebrate with you wearing your most fabulous silver fashions to the shows 8.23 - 9.22,” the message continued.

That means fans seeing Bey in Arizona, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle and Houston should conjure up shiny, disco-inspired looks — if they haven’t already. Think silver, sequins and reflective material. Concertgoers can always look to the “Renaissance” album art for inspiration.

“We’ll surround ourselves in a shimmering human disco ball each night,” she wrote. “Everybody mirroring each other’s joy. Virgo season together in the House of Chrome. See you there!”

Fans shelter in place during extreme weather delay

Concertgoers were ordered to shelter in place at FedEx Field in Maryland as extreme weather delayed Beyoncé’s Aug. 6 show by nearly two hours.

According to NBC4 Washington , the seasoned pro still performed — sometimes amid a torrential downpour — after the shelter-in-place order was lifted that night. Thousands of fans were eventually rewarded after waiting through the intense heat, storms and lightning to see their idol live.

“Beyoncé in the rain was truly life changing,” one person tweeted after the show.

“Even the rain couldn’t stop Beyoncé’s lethal walk,” tweeted another.

“Baby Beyoncé performed in the rain and all!!!” a third person wrote . “Floor was slippery and she still showed out!!!!”

Beyoncé’s production team also paid $100,000 to keep Metro trains running late so that fans could get home safely after the delayed concert concluded, NBC4 Washington reported.

Erykah Badu spotlit over Lizzo on ‘The Queens Remix’

“About Damn Time” singer Lizzo — one of the many powerhouses whose name was written into Beyoncé’s “Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)” — was left out of Bey’s performance of the song during her Aug. 1 stop in Boston. The omission came hours after news broke that three of Lizzo’s former dancers filed a lawsuit against the body-positive singer alleging sexual harassment and hostile working conditions.

While some saw the oversight as a diss, others saw it as a way for Bey to address perceived drama between her and “On & On” singer Erykah Badu. Bey repeated “Badu” during the song — four times — in lieu of the remix’s original lyrics, “Badu, Lizzo, Kelly Rowl.”

On July 30, Badu called out the “Church Girl” singer for allegedly copying her signature look on the tour.

“Hmm.... ,” the “Bag Lady” singer wrote over a photo of Bey in a tall, wide-brimmed hat, “I guess I’m everybody’s stylist.”

Beyoncé pays tribute to O’Shae Sibley, the dancer who died after vogueing to her music

Beyoncé has paid tribute to O’Shae Sibley, the professional dancer who was stabbed in New York over the weekend after vogueing to one of her songs.

Aug. 2, 2023

Beyoncé gets a visit from Madonna and Oprah

Beyoncé’s July 30 concert in New Jersey was a night of one-name wonders.

In footage from the show, none other than Madonna can be seen enjoying the performance from her VIP box at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford. The legendary pop musician even got a shout-out from Bey, who paid homage to the “Queen Mother” while performing the “Queen’s Remix” of “Break My Soul,” which was influenced by Madonna’s “Vogue.”

Beyoncé shouts out Madonna, her ‘Queen Mother,’ during Renaissance show in New Jersey

Beyoncé shared her love for Madonna during a show while the ‘Queen Mother’ was in the crowd, alongside Oprah Winfrey and Tina Knowles-Lawson.

“Big shout-out to the Queen! Queen Mother, Madonna, we love you!” Beyoncé said during the performance.

Also in attendance that evening was media mogul Oprah Winfrey (often referred to as just Oprah). The famous talk-show host danced the night away with her journalist pal Gayle King and Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson.

“I have never in my life experienced something as transcendent as @beyonce’s Renaissance Tour,” Winfrey wrote on Instagram after the show.

“That kind of talent, synergy, expression, and anointing is something that comes straight from a Source that creates the planets. The dancers, the production, the musicians, and the team in front and behind the scenes, all perfectly align to create a renaissance in today’s world. You must see it.”

Zendaya and Tom Holland are couple goals

The internet’s favorite Hollywood couple, Tom Holland and Zendaya, were drunk in love at Beyoncé’s June 27 concert in Warsaw.

Concert footage of the “Spider-Man” co-stars singing along to Bey’s performance of “Love on Top” has gone viral on social media, amassing more than 4 million views on TikTok alone.

In the videos, the “Crowded Room” actor and the “Euphoria” star can be seen dancing and singing the chorus of the song (“Baby it’s you / You’re the one I love / You’re the one I need / You’re the only one I see”) to each other with giant smiles on their faces.

“If we ain’t vibin’ like this , I don’t want it,” one person commented on TikTok.

“This is the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” another person wrote .

“WHEN. IS. IT. GONNA. BE. MY. TURN,” a third person commented .

Backup dancer saves the day

While performing the hit single “Break My Soul” in Hamburg, Germany, on June 21, one of Beyoncé’s backup dancers smoothly and discreetly averted a potential wardrobe malfunction.

In footage from the concert , one-half of the dance duo Les Twins swiftly positions himself in front of Beyoncé (to shield her from the audience’s view) and delicately places her left hand over her left breast, which appeared to be in danger of slipping out of her skintight, pink dress. The blink-and-you’ll-miss it maneuver lasted less than four seconds, with neither the singer nor the dancer missing a beat.

On social media, scores of Beyoncé fans praised the dancer for his tact and professionalism.

“The professionalism, the slickness, the simplicity in his movement placing her own hand where she needed to cover! too good,” one TikTok user commented.

“Now that is talent,” another person wrote. “That he saw something happening and didn’t miss a beat while performing and allowed her to fix it. Love Les Twins.”

Beyoncé spotlights Black designers in honor of Juneteenth

During her June 18 show in Amsterdam, Beyoncé wore costumes “created exclusively” by Black fashion designers in honor of Juneteenth, she announced on Instagram .

Her wardrobe for the concert included designs by Feben, Maximilian Davis for Ferragamo, Olivier Rousteing for Balmain, Ibrahim Kamara for Off-White, LaQuan Smith and, of course, Beyoncé for Ivy Park, according to Vogue .

Among the standout looks were a reflective silver bodysuit and matching thigh-high boots by Rousteing; a bedazzled, ruby-red gown, as well as a sparkly, red, white and gold bodysuit by Davis; a baggy red bodysuit and sparkly thigh-high boots by Kamara; and a Barbie-pink halter dress with elbow-length gloves from Beyoncé’s Ivy Park collection.

“I started designing this collection over a year ago,” Beyoncé wrote on Instagram . “I was so engulfed in all things RENAISSANCE and was inspired by Studio 54, Bob Mackie and the disco era. I wanted to do a modern twist using the signature IVY PARK neon and bring disco to the beach in this swim collection.

“I’m so happy to share this with you and even more proud to launch it for the first time on the RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR. I’m proud to be among the very talented Black designers featured in last night’s show to celebrate Juneteenth.”

‘My Power’ gets a streaming boost from Blue Ivy

“My Power”? More like Blue Ivy’s power.

Streams for Beyoncé’s empowerment anthem from the “Lion King” soundtrack have skyrocketed since the 11-year-old Grammy winner started performing the song alongside her mom on the Renaissance tour.

The week of May 26 — the day Blue Ivy made her Renaissance tour debut as one of Beyoncé’s backup dancers in Paris — on-demand streaming for “My Power” increased by 190%. The following week, U.S. streams spiked by 111.2% as Blue Ivy continued to join her mom onstage during that part of the show, according to music database Luminate.

Globally, streams for “My Power” jumped by 218.2% the first week and an additional 105.6% the second week.

Analysts have also noticed an uptick in the song’s digital sales, which have risen by more than 180% domestically and more than 210% globally in recent weeks.

“My beautiful first born,” Beyoncé captioned Instagram photos of her daughter performing the choreography to “My Power” on tour.

“I’m so proud and thankful to be your mama. You bring us so much joy, my sweet angel.”

All hail Beyoncé, queen of the side-eye

Somebody please check on the concertgoer who was on the receiving end of Beyoncé’s world-famous side-eye at a recent Renaissance tour show.

One (un)lucky fan became the target of Queen Bey’s withering gaze after loudly singing along to the opening verse of “I Care” from the album “4.” And another captured the moment in concert footage that has gone viral on social media.

In the clip, an audience member can be heard shouting the lyrics to “I Care” over Beyoncé, who appears to briefly but pointedly shoot a look in their direction from the stage. The video has been shared widely on Twitter, where the BeyHive has had a field day dissecting the singer’s facial expression.

“Beyoncé was 3 seconds away from telling him to cool it down i’m crying,” @beyoncegarden tweeted .

“I’m crying she like this a solo,” @yofancy_kayy tweeted .

“THE VIRGO LOOK,” @yespriest tweeted .

Several deemed the look “bombastic side-eye,” referring to a TikTok trend reserved for only the shadiest of occasions.

“There’s a man who was at Beyoncé’s concert screaming his lungs out she got so distracted by the screaming she said ‘bombastic side eye,’” tweeted @AppleMokoena .

“Not Beyoncé giving them the bombastic side eye,” tweeted @ViDoubleNie .

Beyoncé pays tribute to Tina Turner

During her May 26 concert in Paris, Beyoncé took a moment to honor legendary performer Tina Turner, who died May 24 following a long illness. The “Proud Mary” and “What’s Love Got to Do With It” singer was 83.

“If you’re a fan of mine, you’re a fan of Tina Turner,” Beyoncé told the crowd in France.

“I wouldn’t be on this stage without Tina Turner. So I want you guys to just scream so she can feel your love. I feel so blessed that I was alive to witness her brilliance.”

At a subsequent concert in London, Beyoncé covered the 1966 Ike and Tina Turner track “River Deep Mountain High.”

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This wasn’t the first time Bey has paid homage to the queen of rock ’n’ roll. In 2005, the Destiny’s Child breakout performed a showstopping tribute to Turner at the Kennedy Center Honors before joining her musical hero onstage for a duet of “Proud Mary” at the 50th Grammy Awards.

Shortly after Turner’s death was announced, Beyoncé said in a statement on her website that she was “so grateful for [her] inspiration and all the ways [she] paved the way.”

Blue Ivy steals the show

The audience erupted in cheers on May 26 when Beyoncé brought out her 11-year-old daughter , Blue Ivy, to dance with her onstage in Paris.

Dressed in a shiny silver costume and trendy sunglasses, the eldest child of Beyoncé and Jay-Z didn’t miss a beat while performing the choreography for “My Power” and “Black Parade” alongside her mom and the professional backup dancers.

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After the show, Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Lawson, had a proud-grandma moment on Instagram — where she shared a video of the crowd chanting Blue Ivy’s name at the end of her surprise performance.

“Last night I saw my beautiful grandbaby (11) dance in the front of almost 70 thousand people !” Lawson wrote . “She killed it and was as cool as a cucumber! ... No Fear.”

Celebrities abound

The U.S. leg of Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour isn’t scheduled to begin until July, but several American celebrities have already traveled abroad to see their fellow entertainer in Europe.

Among the famous faces who have been spotted at Bey’s Renaissance concerts so far are Selena Gomez , Pharrell Williams , Vivica A. Fox , Natalie Portman , Lenny Kravitz , Kesha and Kylie Jenner — as well as the headliner’s husband, Jay-Z, and her “Savage” collaborator Megan Thee Stallion .

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Beyoncé Announces Renaissance World Tour

By Evan Minsker and Allison Hussey

Beyoncé has announced that she’s touring in support of her latest album, Renaissance . The tour begins with a European leg in May, followed by dates in Canada and the United States that extend from from early July through late September. It’s her first tour since her 2018 co-headlining On the Run II Tour with Jay-Z behind their collaborative album, Everything Is Love , and her first headlining tour since 2016’s Formation World Tour behind Lemonade . The Renaissance World Tour is produced by Parkwood Entertainment and promoted by Live Nation. See all of the dates below.

Renaissance arrived July 29, rising swiftly to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and marking Beyoncé’s seventh album to summit the albums chart. It is the first act in what will be a three-part series, she has indicated.

Beyoncé hinted at her world tour in late October, during the fifth annual Wearable Art Gala, where the raffle included “ a UNIQUE experience ” to see her on the Renaissance tour. Purported images from the auction featured descriptions of the summer 2023 trek. Valued at $20,000, the package included first-class plane tickets, a three-night hotel stay, two concert tickets, and a guided backstage tour from Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles aka Miss Tina. Beyoncé was reportedly in attendance at the gala. In January, she performed at the opening of a new luxury resort in Dubai, but did not play any Renaissance material at the private concert . It was her first live performance since 2020.

Since sharing Renaissance , Beyoncé has made a few adjustments to the album; she replaced ableist lyrics in “ Heated ,” and removed an interpolation of Kelis ’ “Milkshake” on “Energy” after Kelis said she was not informed by Beyoncé and her team that her music was going to be used on the new album. Beyoncé also dropped Honey Dijon and Madonna remixes of “ Break My Soul .” 

In 2019, Beyoncé released Homecoming: The Live Album . The next year, she shared Black Is King , a visual album based on her 2019 soundtrack for The Lion King: The Gift . (Beyoncé voiced adult Nala in the CGI remake film.) On Juneteenth of that year, she surprise-released “ Black Parade ,” which would go on to win the Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance . At the same ceremony, she also won Best Rap Performance and Best Rap Song (for her feature on the remix of Megan Thee Stallion ’s “ Savage ”), as well as Best Music Video (for The Gift ’s “ Brown Skin Girl ”). “ Be Alive ”—her contribution to the King Richard soundtrack—was nominated for an Oscar at last year’s ceremony.

Beyoncé is nominated for nine honors at the 2023 Grammy Awards : Record of the Year , Song of the Year , and Best Dance/Electronic Recording for “Break My Soul”; Album of the Year and Best Dance/Electronic Music Album for Renaissance ; Best R&B Performance for “Virgo’s Groove”; Best Traditional R&B Performance for “Plastic Off the Sofa”; Best R&B Song for “Cuff It”; and Best Song Written for Visual Media for “Be Alive.”

Read “ 5 Takeaways From Beyoncé’s New Album, Renaissance ” over on the Pitch.

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Another Ticketmaster war is on the horizon as the BeyHive prepares for battle. After weeks of speculation, Beyoncé has officially confirmed a world tour in support of Renaissance , scheduled to make stops in stadiums across the world in 2023 .

The musician confirmed the news on Wednesday morning. The tour will begin in Europe this May before landing in North America on July 8 with back-to-back nights at Toronto’s Rogers Centre. The tour will make stops in Philadelphia, Nashville, Chicago, Boston, Atlanta, Miami, Houston, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and more.

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The Renaissance tour marks Beyoncé’s first extended stretch on the road since the On the Run tour, which made 48 stops across North America and Europe in 2018. Those shows were proceeded by the singer’s redefining Coachella performance, which arrived as the Netflix concert film Homecoming the following year.

The clips sparked multiple viral moments, the most notable being Beyoncé’s new vocal arrangements on familiar records, including “Drunk in Love” and “Countdown.” The private concert, notably, did not include any Renaissance tracks on the setlist, even the chart-topping lead single “Break My Soul.”

The tour announcement arrives as a saving grace for a starved BeyHive, still yearning for any meaningful visual companion pieces to the singer’s acclaimed seventh studio album. If Beyoncé is heading on the road again, maybe the wait for the music videos she teased in the record release trailer won’t be too much longer.

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“As is customary for her, she layers the album with enough totems to fuel a million think pieces and dissertations,” Rolling Stone shared of Renaissance . “Yet it’s also possible to simply dance and vibe to the music. This is Beyoncé at her joyous peak, and you won’t get it unless you pull the “plastic off the sofa,” “drop it like a thottie,” and enjoy Queen Bey at her thrilling best.”

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Beyoncé has announced a world tour in support of her Renaissance album, which dropped in July.

The superstar musician broke the news in a bare-bones post on Instagram on Wednesday, featuring merely a photo of her in her Renaissance album look and the words “Renaissance World Tour,” which she repeated in the caption, adding “2023.”

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Tickets for the tour, produced by Parkwood Entertainment and promoted by Live Nation, will be available starting Monday, with an exclusive presale for BeyHive members. More info about the tour and a complete list of dates is available on Beyonce’s website .

The news comes after Beyoncé performed for the first time in more than four years in Dubai last month and ahead of the 2023 Grammys this coming Sunday, where she’s nominated for a leading nine awards and, if she wins four, could become the most awarded artist in Grammys history .

The Dubai concert on Jan. 21 featured the superstar singing songs she rarely performs onstage and duetting with daughter Blue Ivy Carter. The nearly 75-minute, invite-only performance was to help launch the city’s new luxurious and opulent hotel, The Atlantis Royal. Jay-Z and other members of Beyoncé’s family were also in attendance at the Dubai show.

Prior to that, Beyoncé’s last live performance, apart from her opening the 2022 Oscars , was at the Global Citizen Festival: Mandela 100 in Johannesburg in December of 2018. That year, she and Jay-Z also went on their On the Run II tour. And she performed a headline-making set at the 2018 Coachella Festival, with her performance captured for the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary Homecoming .

Her last solo tour was the Formation jaunt in 2016.

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WELCOME TO THE RENAISSANCE

40 shows across north america and europe, verified fan registration open for north american dates now at   beyonce.livenation.com, citi cardmembers, verizon up and beyhive members will have additional access to presales.

Following the wildly successful release of BEYONCÉ’s seventh studio album,  RENAISSANCE , the global superstar has announced RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR  today, her first solo tour in over six years. The North American leg of the tour is leveraging Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan technology to ensure more tickets get into the hands of concertgoers. Fans can register now   HERE . Ticketing will begin Monday, February 6, 2023, starting with an exclusive presale to BeyHive members.

The 2023 tour, produced by Parkwood Entertainment, and promoted by Live Nation, kicks off on May 10, 2023, at Friends Arena in Stockholm, SE, making stops throughout Europe in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Sunderland, Paris, London, Marseille, Amsterdam, Warsaw and more. The tour then continues across North America with shows in Toronto, Chicago, East Rutherford, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Houston and more.

RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR  will also visit Brussels, Barcelona, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, and more in Europe in May & June. Additional North American cities include Boston, Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Kansas City, Louisville, Miami, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, St. Louis, Tampa, Vancouver and more.

As with previous tours, Beyoncé will make her mark offstage, too, with BeyGOOD, the initiative she founded in 2013 to support people and programs around the world.  BeyGOOD will continue its legacy of philanthropy, building out this focus on economic equity by supporting organizations that serve marginalized and underserved communities with access to scholarships, opportunities for internships that lead to job placement, and resources to support entrepreneurship.

In various cities throughout the tour, BeyGOOD will support entrepreneurs through Black Parade Route luncheons, celebrating small business owners, with grant opportunities being awarded and a foray of services with global partners to promote business sustainability. One thousand small businesses will be supported with a commitment totaling one million dollars.

BeyGOOD will also support students through scholarship funds that will be given to colleges and universities in ten different cities along the tour. Each school will be given one hundred thousand dollars and will select the student recipients. BeyGOOD’s total scholarship commitment during RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR will be one million dollars.

Working with Beyoncé and the BeyGOOD Foundation, Citi and Verizon will purchase 100 tickets combined in each market across the U.S. touring leg for distribution to local community initiatives.

A noted partner with Beyoncé, Tiffany & Co. is the official jeweler of  RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR.  Tiffany & Co. has a longstanding commitment to conducting itself responsibly, sustaining the natural environment, prioritizing diversity and inclusion, and positively impacting the communities in which it operates.

TICKETING DETAILS :

On sale dates:

• North American Dates:  Verified Fan Registration is open now and closes at different times based on city. Visit  beyonce.livenation.com  for the exact details as ticketing on sale timelines vary by city. 
• Europe an  Dates:  Check your local event listings for complete ticket information regarding European dates of the tour.

Pre sale dates:

• Citi Presale powered by Verified Fan:  Citi is the official credit card of  RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR . After the Verified Fan process, Citi cardmembers may have the opportunity to access the special Citi Presale powered by Verified Fan for tour dates in the United States. For those who are not existing Citi cardmembers, consumers can apply for the Citi Custom Cash Card online. If approved, new cardmembers may request instant access to their card for the Citi Presale powered by Verified Fan.* For complete presale details visit  www.citientertainment.com  and for details on Custom Cash instant access visit  www.citientertainment.com/faq . 
• Verizon Up Presale:  Verizon Up customers can access this presale by visiting   Verizon Up . Verizon will offer an exclusive presale for  RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR  in the U.S through the customer loyalty program Verizon Up. Customers will have access to purchase presale tickets for select shows.

RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR DATES:

May 10, 2023 – Stockholm, SE – Friends Arena

May 14, 2023 – Brussels, BE – King Baudouin Stadium

May 17, 2023 – Cardiff, UK – Cardiff Principality Stadium

May 20, 2023 – Edinburgh, UK – BT Murray Field Stadium

May 23, 2023 – Sunderland, UK – Stadium of Light

May 26, 2023 – Paris, FR – Stade de France

May 29, 2023 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

May 30, 2023 – London, UK – Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

June 08, 2023 – Barcelona, ES – Olympic Stadium

June 11, 2023 – Marseille, FR – Orange Velodrome

June 15, 2023 – Cologne, DE – Rhein Energie Stadion

June 17, 2023 – Amsterdam, NL – Johan Crujff Arena

June 21, 2023 – Hamburg, DE – Volksparkstadion

June 24, 2023 – Frankfurt, DE – Deutsche Bank Park

June 27, 2023 – Warsaw, PL – PGE Narodowy

NORTH AMERICA

July 8, 2023 – Toronto, ON – Rogers Centre

July 12, 2023 – Philadelphia, PA – Lincoln Financial Field

July 15, 2023 – Nashville, TN – Nissan Stadium

July 17, 2023 – Louisville, KY – L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium

July 20, 2023 – Minneapolis, MN – Huntington Bank Stadium

July 22, 2023 – Chicago, IL – Soldier Field Stadium

July 26, 2023 – Detroit, MI – Ford Field

July 29, 2023 – East Rutherford, NJ – MetLife Stadium

Aug. 01, 2023 – Boston, MA – Gillette Stadium

Aug. 03, 2023 – Pittsburgh, PA – Acrisure Stadium

Aug. 05, 2023 – Washington, DC – FedEx Field

Aug. 09, 2023 – Charlotte, SC – Bank of America Stadium

Aug. 11, 2023 – Atlanta, GA – Mercedes-Benz Stadium

Aug. 16, 2023 – Tampa, FL – Raymond James Stadium

Aug. 18, 2023 – Miami, FL – Hard Rock Stadium

Aug. 21, 2023 – St. Louis, MO – Dome at America’s Center

Aug. 24, 2023 – Phoenix, AZ – State Farm Stadium

Aug. 26, 2023 – Las Vegas, NV – Allegiant Stadium

Aug. 30, 2023 – San Francisco, CA – Levi’s Stadium

Sept. 02, 2023 – Inglewood, CA – SoFi Stadium

Sept. 11, 2023 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place

Sept. 13, 2023 – Seattle, WA – Lumen Field

Sept. 18, 2023 – Kansas City, MO – Arrowhead Stadium

Sept. 21, 2023 – Dallas, TX – AT&T Stadium

Sept. 23, 2023 – Houston, TX – NRG Stadium

Sept. 27, 2023 – New Orleans, LA – Caesars Superdome

For complete ticketing and additional information visit  beyonce.livenation.com  and  tour.beyonce.com .

*Citi Instant Access Process:  *If approved for the card after applying online, new Citi Custom Cash cardmembers must write down their temporary account information to have ready when they go to try to make a purchase during the presale. They will not have access to their information again until the physical card arrives in the mail, which may take 7-10 days. 

About Parkwood Entertainment

Parkwood Entertainment is a film and production company, record label and management firm founded by entertainer and entrepreneur, Beyoncé Knowles-Carter in 2010.  With offices in Los Angeles and New York City, the company houses departments in music, film, video, live performances and concert production, management, business development, marketing, technology, creative, philanthropy, and publicity.  Under its original name, Parkwood Pictures, the company released the film Cadillac Records (2008), in which Beyoncé starred and co-produced. The company has also released the films Obsessed (2009), with Beyoncé as star and executive producer, the winner of the Peabody Award for Entertainment, Lemonade (2017), the Emmy®-nominated Homecoming: A Film By Beyoncé (2019), which documents Beyoncé’s history-making performance at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in 2018, and the Emmy®-winning Black Is King (2020). Parkwood Entertainment produced The Mrs. Carter Show World Tour (2013-2014), The Formation World Tour (2016), and the aforementioned “Homecoming” performances at Coachella (2018) and co-produced the ON THE RUN Tour (2014) and ON THE RUN II (2018).

About Live Nation Entertainment

Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE: LYV) is the world’s leading live entertainment company comprised of global market leaders: Ticketmaster, Live Nation Concerts, and Live Nation Sponsorship. For additional information, visit   www.livenationentertainment.com .

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Beyoncé: Renaissance World Tour review – a dizzying three-hour spectacular

Friends Arena, Stockholm Queen Bey’s first solo headline tour in seven years is a lavish leap forward for live entertainment, dripping with sci-fi disco decadence, sex and Black pride

E ven without Taylor Swift’s Ticketmaster-melting Eras Tour nipping at her heels, it wouldn’t do for a star as compulsively ambitious as Beyoncé to merely protect her status as the greatest pop show on Earth. Not when her first solo headline tour since 2016 could instead push 21st-century live entertainment another lavish leap forward.

Titled after the Texan’s disco glitter bomb post-pandemic party album of the same name , Renaissance is a monster blockbuster concert experience on a different plane. Fifty-seven stadium dates globally, starting in Stockholm, are projected to gross as much as £1.9bn ($2.4bn) by the time the tour ends in New Orleans late September. Dripping with sci-fi disco decadence, sex, body positivity and feminine Black pride, the near three-hour spectacular plays out in front, behind and, at times, inside a football-pitch-wide high-definition video screen designed to assault the senses at dizzying scale.

The BeyHive, as Beyoncé’s fans collectively style themselves, are buzzing pre-show as they flood into the venue from around the world for their first chance proper to see their queen live since 2018’s On the Run II co-headliner with Mr B, Jay-Z. Dressed head to toe in official tour merch, including a cap and hoodie both emblazoned with the word “THIQUE”, Mykwain Gainey has been to 20 Beyoncé shows over the past two decades and has spent nearly £2,000 to fly here from New York. “To see her transcend, and become what she has become, especially as a Black woman, is exciting,” he enthuses.

Brazilian Yhes Bezerra wears a spangly cowboy hat like the one sported by Beyoncé in the tour poster, except theirs is homemade; sticking on the thousands of tiny mirror panels took nine hours. They were determined to come to the opening night to avoid social media spoilers about what to expect. “I want everything to be a surprise,” Bezerra smiles.

Beyoncé appears first in a video cut scene, laid out luxuriously across the giant screen semi-naked in dimensions big enough to be visible from space. And yet, once she emerges in the flesh – all sequins, shoulder pads and that megawatt smile, drinking in the crowd’s screams – she begins disarmingly with a slew of her rawest soul songs. By the second, Flaws and All, she already appears to be fighting back tears, whether of release or gratitude or both. It’s an opening that seems designed to strip away artifice, if only to provide some sharp contrast for the heavily technologically augmented spectacle about to follow.

Harking back to early house and techno and the ecstatic utopia of the dancefloor, a segment dedicated to the Renaissance album ensues with Beyoncé done up something akin to the Maschinenmensch in Metropolis. She grinds with a dozen backing dancers to the jittery reggaeton of her boss bitch mission statement I’m That Girl, then dances with some actual robots (a pair of mechanical arms) during Cosy. Were all that not semi-hallucinogenic enough, Alien Superstar interpolates narcissistic anthem I’m Too Sexy by 90s dance-pop twosome Right Said Fred.

With many of the setlist’s whopping 36 songs abridged, the tempo is relentless. Blink and you’ll miss dancers popping out of the stage like champagne corks, or Beyoncé’s powerhouse band getting wheeled into occasional view on a tall stepped riser (shades of Beychella), such as during Chic-style feelgood funk workout Cuff It. “Y’all having a good time, Stockholm?” our host inquires, wiping an imperceptible bead of sweat from her brow. “Me too.”

Black Parade finds Beyoncé cruising the stage atop what looks like a kind of lunar rover. Somewhat comically, it exits up the gusset of a pair of massive splayed legs. Later she sings Plastic Off the Sofa stretched out in a clamshell. Come Crazy in Love, the show finally gets the enormous disco ball it seems to have long craved, dangled from the rafters for only a bit longer than the time it takes for the crew to get it up there and back down.

Bass-quaking, envelope-pushing Black power anthem Formation is a powerful political statement in any setting. Performed in a kind of virtual cathedral, horny southern rap and gospel cocktail Church Girl (sample lyric: “drop it like a thottie, drop it like a thottie”) might just be intended to provoke. But by Beyoncé’s own standards, it’s hard not to read Renaissance as a show much lighter on overt socio-political messaging than it is sheer, unfettered, mildly chaotic indulgence. And who could blame her?

In a final, unsubtle, retro-futuristic fanfare, Bey summons Bianca Jagger’s iconic Studio 54 moment by gliding through the air on a glitter-encrusted white horse while Summer Renaissance – which samples Donna Summer’s I Feel Love – blares. The disco history references may or may not be landing with the mostly young BeyHive, but that’s not really the point. By rewiring dance music past in a sensory overload of truly stunning ambition and stamina, Beyoncé is writing some history of her own.

The Renaissance World Tour continues until 27 September, see https://tour.beyonce.com/ for dates

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Clearly in response to the chaotic Taylor Swift on-sale last fall, tickets to Beyonce’s forthcoming “Renaissance” stadium tour will be released on a staggered basis. Ticketing information appears below; Ticketmaster has issued an FAQ as well. The tour begins on May 10 in Sweden and comes to North America on July 8 — see full tour dates here .

• U.S. DATES:  There will be four ways fans can purchase tickets to the U.S. dates of the tour:
• Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale : The tour is using Verified Fan to ensure more tickets get into the hands of fans who want to attend the shows rather than those looking to resell them. Fans can register now  HERE . Sign in or create a Ticketmaster account to register now. 
• BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: BeyHive members will be eligible to register for a Verified Fan Presale during the applicable registration window(s) below. Fans can register now  HERE  using the email address associated with their BeyHive account.
• CITI Presale powered by Verified Fan: Citi cardmembers can access this presale by registering with their Citi card number  HERE . Citi is the official credit card of the Beyoncé RENAISSANCE World Tour. Citi cardmembers can take advantage of a special Citi Presale powered by Verified Fan opportunity for tour dates in the United States. More details available at  www.citientertainment.com .

4. Verizon Up Presale: Verizon Up members can access this presale by visiting  Verizon Up . Verizon will offer an exclusive presale for the Beyoncé RENAISSANCE World Tour in the U.S through the customer loyalty program Verizon Up. Members will have access to purchase presale tickets for select shows.

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• Verified Fan Registration Windows (BeyHive, CITI, Ticketmaster): Register now  HERE  through Thurs, Feb 2 at 11:59pm local time
• BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Mon, Feb 6 
• CITI Verified Fan Presale: Tue, Feb 7 at 10am local time through Wed, Feb 8 at 6pm local time
• Verizon Presale: Thurs, Feb 9 at 10am local time through Fri, Feb 10 at 6pm local time
• Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Sat, Feb 11

Group B: Minneapolis, Boston, Tampa, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas

• Ticketmaster Verified Fan and CITI Verified Fan Registration Window: Register now  HERE  through Thurs, Feb 9 at 11:59pm local time
• BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Mon, Feb 13
• CITI Verified Fan Presale: Tues, Feb 14 at 10am local time through Wed, Feb 15 at 6pm local time
• Verizon Presale: Thur, Feb 16 at 10am local time through Fri, Feb 17 at 6pm local time
• Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Sat, Feb 18

Group C: Nashville, Louisville, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Charlotte, St. Louis, Phoenix, Kansas City, New Orleans, Philadelphia

• Ticketmaster Verified Fan and CITI Verified Fan Registration Window: Register now  HERE  through Thurs, Feb 16 at 11:59pm local time
• BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Mon, Feb 20
• CITI Verified Fan Presale: Tues, Feb 21 at 10am local time through Wed, Feb 22 at 6pm local time
• Verizon Presale: Thur, Feb 23 at 10am local time through Fri, Feb 24 at 6pm local time
• Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Sat, Feb 25
• CANADA DATES: Toronto & Vancouver will have a BeyHive Verified Fan presale and a Ticketmaster Verified Fan On Sale. 
• Ticketmaster Verified Fan Registration Window: Register now  HERE  through Thurs, Feb 2 at 11:59pmlocal time
• BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Mon, Feb 6
• Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Tue, Feb 7 
• EUROPE DATES: 

Stockholm, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Sunderland, Paris, Marseille, Amsterdam, London 

• BeyHive Presale: Mon, Feb 6 at 10am local time through 6pm local time
• General Onsale: Tues, Feb 7 at 10am local time 

Brussels, Barcelona, Cologne, Hamburg, Frankfurt 

• General Onsale: Friday, Feb 10 at 10am local time

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Beyoncé Announces Her Renaissance World Tour 2023: All We Know

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Beyoncé kicked off Black History Month with the announcement the world has been waiting months for: Her Renaissance World Tour is happening, this year. Bey unveiled the news with a simple Instagram post: “RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR 2023.” She did not immediately provide more information, but more is obviously coming.

So, what is known so far about her tour? What can the world expect? Here, we've gathered everything released so far.

When is the Renaissance World Tour happening?

• May 10: Stockholm, Sweden @ Friends Arena
• May 14: Brussels, Belgium @ King Baudouin Stadium
• May 17: Cardiff, Wales, U.K. @ Cardiff Principality Stadium
• May 20: Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K. @ BT Murrayfield Stadium
• May 23: Sunderland, U.K. @ Stadium of Light
• May 26: Paris, France @ Stade de France
• May 29: London, U.K. @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• May 30: London, U.K. @ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
• June 8: Barcelona, Spain @ Olympic Stadium
• June 11: Marseille, France @ Orange Vélodrome
• June 15: Cologne, Germany @ Rhein Energie Stadion
• June 17: Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Johan Cruijff Arena
• June 21: Hamburg, Germany @ Volksparkstadion
• June 24: Frankfurt, Germany @ Deutsche Bank Park
• June 27: Warsaw, Poland @ PGE Narodowy
• July 8: Toronto, Canada @ Rogers Centre
• July 12: Philadelphia, PA @ Lincoln Financial Field
• July 15: Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium
• July 17: Louisville, KY @ L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium
• July 20: Minneapolis, MN @ Huntington Bank Stadium
• July 22: Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field Stadium
• July 26: Detroit, MI @ Ford Field
• July 29: East Rutherford, NJ @ MetLife Stadium
• August 1: Boston, MA @ Gillette Stadium
• August 3: Pittsburgh, PA @ Acrisure Stadium
• August 5: Washington, DC @ FedEx Field
• August 9: Charlotte, NC @ Bank of America Stadium
• August 11: Atlanta, GA @ Mercedes-Benz Stadium
• August 16: Tampa, FL @ Raymond James Stadium
• August 18: Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium
• August 21: St. Louis, MO @ Dome at America's Center
• August 24: Phoenix, AZ @ State Farm Stadium
• August 26: Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium
• August 30, San Francisco, CA @ Levi’s Stadium
• September 2: Inglewood, CA @ SoFi Stadium
• September 11: Vancouver, BC @ BC Place
• September 13: Seattle, WA @ Lumen Field
• September 18: Kansas City, MO @ Arrowhead Stadium
• September 21: Dallas, TX @ AT&T Stadium
• September 23: Houston, TX @ NRG Stadium
• September 27: New Orleans, LA @ Caesars Superdome

Where can you get tickets?

Tickets for the North American leg of the tour will be available through Ticketmaster's Verified Fan program. Tickets will go on sale Monday, Feb 6, with an exclusive presale to BeyHive members, according to a Live Nation press release.

Verified Fan registration is now open. Once you register, you'll be placed in a lottery system that determines which fans get invited to purchase tickets. Registration alone doesn't guarantee tickets. If you're selected, you'll get an access code the day before tickets go on sale. Everyone else will be placed on a waitlist. According to Live Nation, this process is intended to help Ticketmaster weed out the resellers and verify your account so that actual fans get priority to buy tickets.

Citi cardmembers will have a special Citi Presale after the Verified Fan process. Get more details here . Verizon will also offer an exclusive presale through their customer loyalty program Verizon Up .

Will Beyoncé be using Ticketmaster like Taylor Swift to sell tickets?

Yes, but given what happened with Taylor Swift's Eras tour (and the fact it led to Congressional hearings about Ticketmaster ’s practices), it seems very likely both Beyoncé and Ticketmaster would want to avoid repeating that mess. That most likely explains the usage of the Verified Fan system.

Where will Beyoncé be playing?

The Renaissance World Tour will hit 40 cities in North America and across Europe. Stops include Paris, London, Amsterdam, Toronto, Chicago, East Rutherford, Atlanta, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Houston, and many more.

What has Beyoncé said about the Renaissance World Tour?

She just announced it was happening with a post on February 1. Her website didn't immediately contain any more details. But during the Wearable Art Gala in October 2022, she appeared to confirm it would start this summer, as a backstage tour with her mother Tina Lawson was up for auction at the event.

Will Beyoncé be performing at the Grammys (on February 5) and sharing more tour details there?

Not clear yet, but she is the most nominated artist at the ceremony . On January 21, Variety reported that “ talks with show producers are ongoing for a possible onstage appearance ” by Beyoncé.

What can we expect from the tour on stage?

Beyoncé hasn't shared that yet either, but given the artistry she put into her recent Dubai show , it's fair to say we can expect no less than excellence, elaborate costumes, and an incredible experience.

This post will be updated the moment more detail is released.

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Want tickets for Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour? These tips will help you score seats

Beyoncé is the queen of timing.

Just days before Sunday's Grammy Awards , where she is poised to potentially become the most awarded entertainer in the show's history, the singer announced Wednesday a new world tour to support her "Renaissance" album.

Shows start May 10 in both European and North American cities and wrap up Sept. 27 in New Orleans. Demand for tickets is ravenous: "Fan demand already exceeds the number of available tickets by more than 800%," promoter Live Nation said in a news release a day after the tour's announcement, when seven cities were given one more date each. 

Priority will go to concertgoers with Verified Fan and other membership-based accounts. Here's how you can get your hands on tickets.

When do Beyoncé tickets go on sale?

Ticketing begins Feb. 6. But rather than put tickets for all shows on sale together, Beyoncé is rolling on-sale dates to try and avoid ticketing system meltdowns that have plagued other big acts of late, notably Taylor Swift. 

Be aware that for some, getting tickets will require signing up for one of a variety of Verified Fan platforms by Feb. 3.

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How to get Beyoncé tour tickets, including presale

You'll want to make sure you fit into one of these four groups to have the best shot at getting seats for Beyoncé's U.S. performances:

• Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale: Sign up for an account in order to be eligible for these tickets, which are aimed at ensuring that fans who plan to attend the show get seats ahead of re-sellers.
• BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Registered members of Beyhive, Beyoncé's superfan club, will be eligible to register for Verified Fan Presale during applicable registration windows.
• Citi Presale powered by Verified Fan: Citi cardmembers can access this presale by registering with their Citi card number .
• Verizon Up Presale: Members of the cellular provider's Verizon Up program are being offered an exclusive presale for the tour.

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Set up your Verified Fan account now

Don't delay. Beyoncé is putting tickets for her U.S. tour dates on sale in three groups: A, B and C. The deadline for fans in Group A cities to sign up for a Ticketmaster Verified Fan accounts is Feb. 3.

Increasingly, ensuring that you have a Verified Fan account is the best way to avoid being left empty-handed or having to go to the secondary market, where prices are often sky high.

Be patient. When top performers announce tours, many rush into action to sign up for Verified Fan accounts, causing delays on "virtual lines."

One more tip. Be sure to check either Beyoncé’s website or the sites of the various ticketing option outlets for the latest location and date updates as a few cities that were previously announced have changed.  

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What ticket group am I in and what's the deadline to register?

Group A fans, listen up. The deadline for you to sign up for Ticketmaster, BeyHive or Citi cardmember access to tickets is 11:59 p.m. local time Feb. 3 . Group A cities are:

• Chicago (Soldier Field Stadium, July 22 and 23) 
• East Rutherford, N.J. (MetLife Stadium, July 29 and 30) 
• Washington, D.C. (FedEx Field, Aug. 5 and 6) 
• Atlanta (Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Aug. 11 and 12) 
• Las Vegas (Allegiant Stadium, Aug. 26)
• Inglewood, Calif. (SoFi Stadium, Sept. 2 and 3) 
• Houston (NRG Stadium, Sept 23 and 24) 

BeyHive Verified Fan Presale for these dates is Feb. 6. Citi Verified Fan Presale is Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. local time through Feb. 8 at 6 p.m. local time. Verizon Up Presale is Feb. 9 at 10 a.m. local time through Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. local time. And Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale is Feb. 11.

The deadline to sign up for the various programs for Group B cities ends Feb. 9 at 11:59 p.m. local time. Group B cities are:

• Minneapolis (Huntington Bank Stadium, July 20)
• Boston (Gillette Stadium, Aug. 1)
• Tampa (Raymond James Stadium, Aug. 16)
• Miami (Hard Rock Stadium, Aug. 18)
• San Francisco (Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif., Aug. 30)
• Seattle (Lumen Field, Sept. 13)
• Dallas (AT&T Stadium, Sept. 21)

BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Feb. 13. Citi Verified Fan Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 14 and 6 p.m. and Feb. 15 local time. Verizon Up Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 16 and 6 p.m. Feb. 17 local time. And Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale is Feb. 18.

The deadline to sign up for the various programs for Group C cities ends Feb. 16 at 11:59 p.m. local time. Group C cities are:

• Philadelphia (Lincoln Financial Field, July 12)
• Nashville (Nissan Stadium, July 15)
• Louisville (L&N Federal Credit Union Stadium, July 17)
• Detroit (Ford Field, July 26)
• Pittsburgh (Acrisure Stadium, Aug. 3)
• Charlotte, N.C. (Bank of America Stadium, Aug. 9)
• St. Louis (Dome at America's Center, Aug. 21)
• Phoenix (State Farm Stadium, Aug. 24)
• Kansas City (GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium, Sept. 18)
• New Orleans (Caesars Superdome, Sept. 27)

BeyHive Verified Fan Presale: Feb. 20. Citi Verified Fan Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 21 and 6 p.m. and Feb. 22, local time. Verizon Up Presale is between 10 a.m. Feb. 23 and 6 p.m. Feb. 24 local time. And Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale is Feb. 25.

What if I love Beyoncé and live in Canada?

If you're hoping to hit a show in either Toronto (Rogers Centre, July 8 and 9) or Vancouver (BC Place, Sept. 11), the Ticketmaster Verified Fan registration window closes Feb. 3 at 11:59 local time. BeyHive Verified Fan Presale is Feb. 6, and the Ticketmaster Verified Fan Onsale date is Feb. 7.

What if I want to catch Queen Bey in Europe?

European tour dates also have two staggered onsale windows.

If you're in this first bucket of cities, BeyHive Presale is Feb. 6 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time, and general onsale is Feb. 7 at 10 a.m. local time. Those cities are: 

• Stockholm, Sweden (Friends Arena, May 10)
• Cardiff, Wales (Cardiff Principality Stadium, May 17)
• Edinburgh, Scotland (BT Murrayfield Stadium, May 20)
• Sunderland, England (Stadium of Light, May 23)
• Paris (Stade de France, May 26)
• London (Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, May 29 and 30)
• Marseille, France (Orange Velodrome, June 11)
• Amsterdam, Netherlands (John Cruijff Stadium, June 17 and June 18)
• Warsaw, Poland  (PGE Narodowy, June 27)

If you're in the second bucket, BeyHive Presale is Feb. 6 between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. local time, and general onsale is at 10 a.m. Feb. 10 local time. Those cities and dates:

• Brussels, Belgium (King Baudouin Stadium, May 14)
• Barcelona, Spain (Olympic Stadium, June 8)
• Cologne, Germany (Rhein Energie Stadion, June 15)
• Hamburg, Germany (Volksparkstadion, June 21)
• Frankfurt, Germany (Deutsche Bank Park, June 24)

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How much will Beyoncé tickets cost?

Ticket prices have not yet been announced. But one thing to keep in mind is  dynamic pricing . That's when, with the prior agreement of the artist, some of the best seats in the house are subject to real-time market demand.

How high can tickets go? When Bruce Springsteen allowed some of the best seats to his upcoming tour to be dynamically priced, some went as high as $4,000 and many fans were outraged. But sales figures released by Ticketmaster reveal that about 12% of tickets were so-called Platinum, or subject to dynamic pricing. 

Over the years, top acts such as Taylor Swift, Drake, Paul McCartney, Ye and Harry Styles have embraced dynamic pricing. Currently, artists such as The Weeknd, Alicia Keys and Carrie Underwood also are offering their best seats – often dubbed Platinum Tickets – through this variable pricing system.

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Beyoncé announces Renaissance World Tour

Six months after dropping her “Renaissance” album last summer, Beyoncé has announced a world tour with stops in Europe and North America.

The megastar announced the news Feb. 1 on her website and in a post on Instagram .

"RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR 2023," she captioned a photo on Instagram of her riding a silver horse — a picture that matches the art on her album cover .

The Renaissance World Tour is Beyoncé’s ninth tour as a solo artist. It kicks off in Stockholm, Sweden, on May 10, and remains in Europe for the following two months. Her first tour date in the U.S. is July 12 in Philadelphia.

Tickets go on sale Monday, Feb. 6., beginning with a presale for members of BeyHive ( register here ). Citi credit card holders can also take advantage of another presale here .

Fans eyeing North American tour dates can register for a Verified Fan code with Ticketmaster here .

All 53 of the tour stops are below and on Beyoncé's website .

What are Beyoncé's tour dates?

May 10, Stockholm, Sweden

May 14, Brussels, Belgium

May 17, Cardiff, United Kingdom

May 20, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

May 23, Sunderland, United Kingdom

May 26, Paris

May 29, London

May 30, London

June 2, London

June 6, Lyon, France

June 8, Barcelona, Spain

June 11, Marseille, France

June 15, Cologne, Germany

June 17, Amsterdam, Netherlands

June 18, Amsterdam, Netherlands

June 21, Hamburg, Germany

June 24, Frankfurt, Germany

June 27, Warsaw, Poland

July 8, Toronto

July 9, Toronto

July 12, Philadelphia

July 15, Nashville, Tennessee

July 17, Louisville, Kentucky

July 20, Minneapolis, Minnesota

July 22, Chicago

July 23, Chicago

July 26, Detroit, Michigan

July 29, New York City

July 30, New York City

Aug. 1., Boston

Aug. 3, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Aug. 5, Washington, D.C.

Aug. 6, Washington, D.C.

Aug. 9, Charlotte, North Carolina

Aug. 11, Atlanta

Aug. 12, Atlanta

Aug. 16, Tampa, Florida

Aug. 18, Miami

Aug. 21, St. Louis, Missouri

Aug. 24, Phoenix, Arizona

Aug. 26, Las Vegas

Aug. 30, San Francisco

Sept. 2, Los Angeles

Sept. 3, Los Angeles

Sept. 11, Vancouver

Sept. 13, Seattle

Sept. 18, Kansas City, Missouri

Sept. 21, Dallas, Texas

Sept. 23, Houston, Texas

Sept. 24, Houston, Texas

Sept. 27, New Orleans, Louisiana

Randi Richardson is a reporter for NBC News' TODAY.com based in Brooklyn.

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A Silvery, Shimmering Summer of Beyoncé

The Renaissance tour is a blueprint for how to cultivate pleasure and hold onto it at all costs.

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In late August, Beyoncé shared a story on Instagram: She asked those attending upcoming Renaissance World Tour dates to come dressed in silver. It was her birthday wish. “We’ll surround ourselves in a shimmering human disco ball each night,” she wrote. “Everybody mirroring each other’s joy.” It was a rare request from a woman who, in the last 10 years, has pulled back almost entirely from media interactions, preferring to speak only through her art.

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Three nights later, in Las Vegas, the town glimmered with anticipation. Everyone understood the assignment: Gleaming chrome thigh-high boots, glittering purses, shiny Telfar bags and rhinestone cowboy hats caught and bounced back the light from the stark desert sun, sending Morse signals to the rest of us who were in town for the same reason. There were strings of discarded rhinestones piled on slot machines, sequined bras abandoned in bathrooms and errant pieces left in the back seat of nearly every cab, Lyft and Uber I got into. In a city where there are dozens of large-scale events occurring simultaneously, the Beyoncé effect rolled through like an earthquake. Or maybe an eclipse.

Silver is the most powerful conductor on the planet; it moves electricity faster and more efficiently than any other material. On that night, tens of thousands of people draped in that lustrous color formed a circuit of pure energy. The stadium glowed. The human disco ball of Beyoncé’s dreams was also a renewable energy source. Charging up people. Charging up ideas. Charging up momentum. The stadium twinkled, each flash of silver a reminder of the constellation of moments that we move through, that sustain us. That even if they are few and far between, they are enough.

Renaissance, which kicked off in Stockholm in May, was Beyoncé’s first tour in nearly seven years, with 56 shows worldwide, tied to her 2022 album of the same name. In recent years, her musical projects have become more declarative of her personal values. “Homecoming” celebrated historically Black universities; “Lemonade” charted the arc of her husband’s infidelity into their redemption. (She is married to the rapper Shawn Carter, a.k.a. Jay-Z.) And now “Renaissance”: an ode to Black queer and trans history, told through a dreamscape of house music that could easily double as a soundtrack for a druggy Brooklyn sex party. Live, the production of “Renaissance” was maximalist, even operatic. Pyrotechnics punctuated beat drops, and there were at least six outfit changes per show (with new looks each show), nearly two dozen dancers, a full band, acrobatics and a finale in which Beyoncé rides a crystal horse, deity-like, through a blizzard of silver confetti.

Anything Beyoncé does becomes a cultural event, but the Renaissance World Tour has become a cultural movement. People are crossing the globe to see her, comparing set lists and fashion choices, attending multiple shows. Silver and rhinestones have become Renaissance signals, as recognizable as any brand logo. Products that she used on tour are selling out, and chrome is appearing in fall look books. Video and photos from the tour have blanketed social media for months, documenting the challenges she issues to the crowd — including one tied to her song “Energy,” during which, after she sings the line “look around everybody on mute,” she pauses, waiting to see if the crowd can calm down enough to follow suit. Fans are also charting the budding confidence of Blue Ivy Carter, Beyoncé’s eldest child, who made her stage debut this year. There are Reddit threads dedicated to post-show comedowns. And the tour has surpassed the previous record for highest-grossing by a solo female artist, which was previously held by Madonna in 2009. By its close, Beyoncé will have generated an estimated $4.5 billion for the American economy, about as much as the 2008 Olympics did for Beijing.

The path of totality has changed nearly everyone who stepped into it. Oprah shared a video of her reaction to Beyoncé’s performance on her Instagram. Standing in a nondescript room, hands crossed, she was uncharacteristically speechless. “I couldn’t scream,” she says, her voice hoarse with emotion. “I was in awe. ... That is like the most extraordinary thing I’ve ever seen.” Oprah’s best friend, Gayle King, has made the pilgrimage too, of course. So have Lenny Kravitz, Pharrell Williams, Kelly Rowland, Jeff Bezos, Paul McCartney, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, LeBron James, Dua Lipa, Vice President Kamala Harris, Shakira, Madonna, Angela Bassett, Natalie Portman, Megan Thee Stallion, Zendaya and Tom Holland and many others.

Across several shows, I’ve watched people process the sensory overload of the performance. Some danced for hours straight; others stood still, hands clasped to chests, reverential, tears streaming down their faces. Folks who couldn’t be there were FaceTimed in. Strangers fanned one another, hugged, encouraged one another to dance when they sat down to rest. The closer my seats were to Beyoncé, however, the less people seemed to move. Instead, they absorbed the full force of her with their entire bodies, not unlike opening the oven to check on a roast and feeling your eyebrows singe a little.

She opened that night in Vegas, as she does every show of the tour, with “Dangerously in Love,” a song from the earliest days of her solo career, about devotion tinged with obsession. It’s an oath, the musical equivalent of pressing two bloody thumbs together. She started singing the song at 19, when she was first falling for Jay-Z. More than 20 years later, time and maturity have decanted the song into something richer.

Beyoncé has always been able to utilize her voice with the precision of a lab technician, inspecting riffs and pulling syllables apart, pipetting out sounds and testing the resonance of melodies. Now that she was onstage in front of stadiums of rapt fans, the fruits of years of experimentation were on full display.

Beyoncé, 42, has figured out how to adjust her voice (her characteristic growl floats in falsetto) and adjust her body language (more benevolent, like a gilded patroness) to abstract the object and subject of the song. The fluttery “I love you”s at the beginning no longer feel like a confessional. They feel like a pledge. By the time she slides into the line “I can’t do this thing called life without you here with me,” it feels as if she has left the recklessness of young love behind. Now she is singing about her legacy, her career, her fans, this world she built for herself. There’s a vocal run toward the end of the song that rises out of Beyoncé’s throat and finds its way into your chest, unclenching any stuck emotions that might be lodged in there.

As a singer and a songwriter, Beyoncé — like all pop stars — is a scholar of love. As she says on the album, it is her weakness. She has been drunk on it, driven crazy by it, trying to get over it, craving it. Historically, it seemed elusive to her. Yet now it seems that she has found a surplus of it to radiate back out. If love is a feeling in the heart, pleasure is its embodied action. And finding that pleasure is not only a hedonistic pursuit, as Audre Lorde wrote in her landmark essay “Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” it is a question of how much “we can feel in the doing.”

The feeling in the doing is at the center of the Renaissance World Tour. It is made material in the shape of a giant hole cut into the center of the stage, where Beyoncé’s band performs. It’s like the inside of a disco ball. The album “Renaissance” opens with a sample of a verse from the Memphis rapper Princess Loko that intones, “Please, [expletive] ain’t stopping me.” During the concert, Beyoncé lets the sample loop again and again, for longer than it does on the track. The effect is exhilarating. “Renaissance” as an album is a blueprint for how to cultivate pleasure and hold onto it at all costs; the tour is a chance to practice the vision for the world we hope to live in, and simultaneously release grief for the one that we do live in.

There are two very different revivals being proposed in this country right now. In Las Vegas, the distinction could not have been clearer. Beyoncé performed at the south end of the famous glitzy strip, while the Trump International hotel, a beacon for so much disappointment and so many deferred desires, loomed at the northern end. Beyoncé has said that she spent the grim days of the pandemic making the “Renaissance” album, which is the first of a three-part series. A renaissance, after all, is another way of bringing something back. And what does Beyoncé think is worthy of resurrection? Love, freedom, safety. It’s another type of insurrection. And what she is inciting is the will to fully inhabit your body.

One of the most striking moments of the show comes during the secular club anthem “Church Girl,” when Beyoncé sings — well, not so much sings as howls in a way that the words blur together and become a keyhole through which to slip — “Soon as I get it in this party, I’m gon’ let go of this body, I’m gonna love on me.” In concert, she blends this song with an earlier iteration of a similar invocation, her 2006 track “Get Me Bodied,” a raucous 1.0 version of “Church Girl.” Each song is a meditation on the deliciousness of releasing the body through movement and how that can awaken the senses further. Only now, she has figured out how to do that for herself, without any external validation. From there, the song fades into Beyoncé’s cover of “Before I Let Go,” the classic summer anthem by Maze featuring Frankie Beverly. Her dancers break into a familiar and familial dance — the Electric Slide. Communal dance has the uncanny ability to reunite the body and spirit; many of the tools of embodiment are already located in Black social rituals. If that release seems unsafe or scary, Beyoncé and her dancers seem to say, a few different ways, let us show you how. Multiple times during the show, visuals of spread legs appeared arranged around the perimeter of the stage’s glory hole, with the perspective zooming ahead, inviting us in. Get inside your body, or if you can’t, come inside mine.

A common criticism of the Knowles-Carters is that their efforts to accumulate assets, power and liberties have felt all-consuming. Yet, during “Pure/Honey,” there’s a moment when the stage transforms into a soul-train line and ballroom stage. And then Beyoncé does something extraordinary: She switches bodies with her dancers. Which is to say, she trades places with them, turning her back on the main stage (a full-body mic drop), and lets her tremendous team of dancers inherit her place. The dancers, emboldened by the spotlight, take turns vogueing and cat-walking down the stages. It is one of the most triumphant moments of the tour.

Now that she was onstage in front of stadiums of rapt fans, the fruits of years of experimentation were on full display.

We live in extremely unfeeling times. Reckoning with compounding climate crises, escalating economic pressures and broader global turns toward bigotry and fascism can have an anesthetizing effect on the body and mind. The Renaissance tour has become something of an antidote to that. The show feels like a three-hour somatic workshop on remembering how to feel any feelings that you can access, whether they be elation or sorrow. Beyoncé herself is modeling it. On “Cuff It,” she asks, Have you ever had fun like this? She delivers the answer in her performance. Her sense of humor is on full display, from outfit choices to exaggerated facial expressions. For all the versions of Beyoncé we’ve seen in her career — beauty queen, vixen, scorned women — stand-up comedian might be her most uninhibited. But as much as the Renaissance World Tour is limned with the beauty of aliveness and vitality, it is also preoccupied with mortality. She is deeply aware of the precarity of Black, queer and trans life. On “Heated,” she sings, “Liberated, livin’ like we ain’t got time.” Pleasure at the world’s end feels nearly impossible. And yet Beyoncé shows us that it is our birthright. Back when the original track list for “Renaissance” was released, fans saw the title “America Has a Problem” and assumed it would be a rallying anthem honoring Breonna Taylor and George Floyd. Instead, the song takes an oppositional tactic. America’s problem, she posits, is our having too much freedom.

The first time I saw her, at the New York-area show, it was the same night that a young Black gay man named O’Shae Sibley was stabbed to death for vogueing to her lyrics at a gas station in Brooklyn. There was an awful collision that night between the optimism of resilience — more than 50,000 people screaming “you won’t break my soul” into the night felt like a defiant incantation — and the unchecked violence that threatens trans and queer people relentlessly. On one of the days I saw her in Las Vegas, a white man opened fire in a Dollar General in Jacksonville, Fla., intentionally targeting and killing three Black people. The shift between the ecstasy of the concert and the reality of the world was so disconcerting it was almost physically painful. The concert inserted me back into my body so fully that I couldn’t avoid the broader questions it raised: about the inverse relationship between queer and trans visibility and violence; the price to access this transformative space, prohibitive to most; and how to square some of Beyoncé’s more radical ideas with the gospel of Black capitalism (as she sings, “this kind of love, big business”). And yet, despite grappling with all that, I was reduced to tears listening to the rhapsodic synthesizers that score the speech of Dr. Barbara Ann Teer, founder of the National Black Theater, which soars out of the end of “Alien Superstar,” about the beauty in Black expression. Internal conflicts aside, I was moved by the power inherent in the scale of her message, on loving yourself in a world that would rather see you dead. In many ways, “Renaissance,” like the ballads at the top of the show, is also an elegy. But Beyoncé isn’t the undertaker; she is directing the second-line band at the funeral procession.

“Deep time” is a term that refers to the geological history of Earth. It requires the brain to reorient its scale, to think about time in billion-year chronologies, rather than days or months. It can cause some wrestling with the twinned significance and insignificance of our lives. At one point during the show, a quotation from Albert Einstein flashes on the screen: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” What we know is limited. What we can imagine — especially for ourselves — is limitless. The concert is punctuated with visuals that offer a sense of Beyoncé’s cosmology: graphics of her soaring through expansive galaxies, including a winged robotic version of the singer astride a rocket navigating outer space. The imagery is suggestive of other ways of being, outside of Earth, known and unknown.

In her lifelong career, Beyoncé has not stopped to wait for anyone else to anoint her (if she did, she would probably still be waiting). And one way to view “Renaissance” is akin to a personal retrospective. Most pop projects (and much of our cultural fixation on self-improvement) revolve around reinvention, discarding past selves to make way for the new. Beyoncé exhumes all her eras and updates them as needed. During her song “Run the World,” “GWORLS,” a colloquial word for trans femmes, flashed on the video screens every time the call-and-repeat stomp of the chorus called out “girls.”

But Beyoncé is also an archivist. The show functions as an altar to her influences: A celestial giggle pays homage to Janet Jackson, and a metallic chest piece nods to Whitney Houston in “The Bodyguard.” The velocity of a hair flip recalls Tina Turner. Quick hips resurrect Josephine Baker’s banana skirt. Beyoncé’s musical production, headed by her, involves tethering parts of “Renaissance” to her earlier catalog, showcasing an evolution of narrative and musical priorities. Live, she braids “Virgo’s Groove” with earlier love songs, “Rocket” and “Say My Name,” diagraming the arrival of a woman confident in her sexuality and partnership. Much of the show’s sartorial catalog is also self-referential. A bee costume designed by Casey Cadwallader for the Mugler brand nods to Beyoncé’s collaborations with Thierry Mugler over the years. A pair of oversize flip-phone earrings recalls her song “Video Phone.” As much as she is taking us through a tour of her music, she is reminding us of the ways that notions about Black femininity have always defined it. She seems to be on a personal mission to rewire how Blackness is understood to be integral and core to America and the world.

A particularly emotional moment arrives when Blue Ivy takes the stage during “MY POWER,” a song from Beyoncé’s 2020 visual album, “Black Is King.” From the time she was born, Blue Ivy has been bullied online for her facial features and hair texture. Here, Beyoncé gestures to her, during the song’s lyric “this that kinfolk, this that skinfolk, this that war, this that bloodline,” as they begin a mother-and-daughter choreography. Her power, which she seems to be passing along to Blue Ivy in that moment, is a fortification against the outside world. It is another kind of legacy, the ability to author her own story, in the ways she will see fit. In one of the most dramatic set changes, Beyoncé appears in a large shimmering clamshell, Botticelliesque and supine, in a bejeweled bodysuit with coyly placed fabric handprints, signaling satirical modesty and also suggestive of self-pleasuring. Beyoncé has emulated a Black Venus for years, including in a lavish photo shoot by Awol Erizku in 2017, when she was pregnant with her twins, Rumi and Sir. The phrase “Black Venus” has also been used to describe Saartjie Baartman, a South African woman who was forcibly exhibited in the early 1800s, nearly naked, for Europeans to gawk at. It seems that as much as Beyoncé is authoring her own image, she is also invoking those who could not.

At one of the shows I saw, Beyoncé closed the show by telling her audience — while flying around the stadium in a dazzling sequined cape — that she hoped they felt loved. That they felt safe. She implored everyone to remember where they were. Before we all left, she encouraged everyone to take a mental picture of the way they felt, whose arms they were holding, the fullness of their heart. “You can return to it anytime.”

An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the designer of Beyoncé’s bee costume. It was inspired by Thierry Mugler’s earlier work and designed by Casey Cadwallader for the Mugler brand. It was not designed by Thierry Mugler.

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J Wortham is a staff writer for the magazine, co-host of the podcast “Still Processing” and co-editor of the anthology “Black Futures,” with Kimberly Drew. She is currently working on a book of essays, "Work of Body." More about Jenna Wortham

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