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When is Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour Coming to Australia? Here's What We Know

• 10 Nov 2023

Whether you’re a casual listener or a ride-or-die member of the Bey-Hive, there’s no denying that Beyoncé is an expert at captivating an audience.

If you’re anything like us, 2023 has seen your social media flooded with endless snippets of Beyoncé’s latest concert series - the Renaissance World Tour.

WATCH: Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour Teaser. Article continues after video.

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Since her first performance in Sweden on May 10, the former Destiny’s Child star has dazzled audiences across Europe and North America with her elaborate costumes, legendary vocals, and captivating Ballroom-inspired performances.

With the North American leg of her tour finishing up in October, many fans are wondering when Beyoncé will bring the Renaissance World Tour to Australia.

Is Beyoncé coming to Australia?

Beyoncé has not yet announced any tour dates for the Australian leg of the Renaissance World Tour however, the star has recently teased at a potential Sydney tour date, with fans on social media capturing a Sydney countdown clock in her staging for  America Has A Problem. 

Although dates have not been confirmed, it has been reported that the  Single Ladies  star is rumoured to be bringing the renaissance to our shores in November 2023.

The current final show listed on Beyoncé's tour webpage is Kansas City, Missouri on October 1, 2023. 

Has Beyoncé toured Australia?

Australia has been lucky enough to be graced with Queen Bey's talents. 

Beyoncé last performed in Australia as part of The Mrs. Carter World Tou r in October/November 2013, with the tour making a stop at every Australian capital city except Darwin and Hobart. 

The singer also toured Australia in 2009 on her I Am... Tour, with her first ever tour Down Under occurring in 2007 as part of The Beyoncé Experience Tour. 

Where can I buy Renaissance Tour tickets?

Tickets for the Australian leg of Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour are likely to be released through  Ticketek.  Although dates have not yet been released, fans can keep a close eye on any concert news by signing up to Ticketek's  Beyoncé waitlist. 

For fans willing to travel across the globe to witness Virgo season in the flesh, you can secure your place at the Renaissance Tour through  Ticketmaster. 

Is Beyoncé releasing a Renaissance World Tour concert film? 

With the live performance dates of her current tour leg officially over, Beyoncé has confirmed that she will be releasing the Renaissance World Tour concert film on December 1, 2023.

Officially titled  Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,  the film will combine a mixture of behind-the-scenes documentary-style footage, on-stage performances, and recording studio outtakes. 

Sources speaking to  Variety  reported that the film will be directly distributed through AMC Theatres in the U.S., with the direct-to-theatre move following the cinematic success of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour concert film. 

Where to watch the  Beyoncé Renaissance World Tour film in Australia

For Australian fans hoping to catch Beyoncé's Renaissance World Tour film in cinemas, Queen Bey has officially released the distribution information, with the film scheduled to debut on December 1, 2023. 

Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,  will be screened in cinemas across Australia, with the film also being available in Sydney and Melbourne's dedicated IMAX theatres. 

Similarly to the North American release, the film is expected to run in Australian cinemas for at least four weeks. 

For more information on where to watch  Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé,  visit Beyoncé's official film website here.  

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A film about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance World Tour' may be the closest Australia gets to Bey this year

It's been confirmed there will be a global release of a film about Beyoncé's 'Renaissance World Tour'

Beyoncé's sister Solange has just performed in Sydney . And Beyoncé has just completed the Europe and North American legs of her "World" Tour – so is she coming Down Under? Possibly not in 2023. But what is coming this year is a film about the concert. 

What are the next dates of Beyoncé's World Tour?

The superstar has been on her Renaissance World Tour through Europe, and she's just wrapped up the North America leg in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 1, 2023. There don't appear to be any other dates on her Renaissance World Tour site . The word "World" has always hinted at the fact that she'll be hitting up other continents. 

When is Beyoncé touring Australia?

This is everything we know: Beyoncé has not yet announced tour dates for Australia.  There are reasons she may not have come here last time she did a world tour , but the government has been sorting those issues out.  Tour promoters previously hinted at Australian dates, with shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, as well as New Zealand. The star teased at a potential Sydney tour date, with fans on social media capturing a Sydney countdown clock in her staging for America Has a Problem . The last time she  performed in our Great Southern Land was during her Mrs Carter   tour in 2013 – wouldn't it be perfect ten-year symmetry if she came again this year?

But, since then, rumours started swirling that she could be pregnant – and she's also announced a global release of a Renaissance tour concert film, coming to cinemas in Australia and the rest of the world.  Perhaps that's meant to keep us satisfied for now, as it becomes harder and harder to believe she'll make it to Australia within the little that's left of 2023. The film seems may be the closest we're going to get to her any time soon. 

When is the Beyoncé film on in Australia?

Renaissance: A Film By Beyoncé  will   follow her tour from the beginning to end, as well as the behind-the-scenes work that went into it all. In the US it will screen in cinemas from Friday, December 1, and tickets for those screenings are already on sale. It's currently unclear when the film will be released in Australia, but we'll keep you up to date when we hear.

In classic Bey-style, her Renaissance World Tour  was announced to the entire world through a single glittering Instagram post (that’s all you need, really, when you’re *her*), so also keep an eye on her Instagram profile .   

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Beyoncé has announced her much anticipated Renaissance world tour. These charts illustrate her legacy

Music superstar Beyoncé has announced her first new tour in nearly seven years, in which she will take her latest album, Renaissance, on the road around Europe and North America.

In disappointing news for local fans, Australia isn't on the list  — yet.

The Renaissance World Tour will kick off in Stockholm on May 10, travelling across the continent until the end of June.

It will then resume in Toronto in July before wrapping in New Orleans in September.

Beyoncé's last studio tour was in 2016 in support of her album Lemonade .

She released the chart-topping and critically-acclaimed Renaissance , her seventh studio album, at the end of July.

The record — inspired by black and queer dance music culture and pioneers —  is in the running for the coveted album of the year prize at this year's Grammy Awards , which will take place on Monday.

In the charts below, see how Beyoncé has built a record-setting solo career across two decades. 

Beyoncé has most Grammys of all for a female artist

Beyonce leads the pack here, with 28 wins , followed closely by Alison Krauss , with 27 wins . 

That lead widens considerably when we look at Aretha Franklin , who is the third-most awarded Grammy winner with 18 wins . 

She's on track to secure most Grammys ever

Right now, the only person ahead of Beyoncé is the late conductor Georg Solti , who won 31 Grammys in his life.

Beyonce's 28 wins means she's currently tied with producer Quincy Jones.

However, she could very well shoot straight to the top come next week as her album Renaissance is leading the 2023 Grammy nominees with nine nods .

Speaking of Grammy nominations, that's another record she holds

When the Grammy nominations were announced last November, Beyoncé wrote herself into the history books by equalling the record of most nominations of all time . 

Her additional nine nominations brought her total to 88 — tied for the most-ever nominations with none other than husband Jay-Z .

The winners of this year's Grammy awards will be revealed at a ceremony in Los Angeles on February 6 .

As for when Queen Bey will announce if she's bringing her Renaissance tour down under, we'll have to wait and see.

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Beyoncé Announces ‘Renaissance’ Stadium Tour Dates

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As expected, Beyoncé has announced a 2023 world tour on Instagram, supporting her multiple-Grammy-nominated 2022 album, “Renaissance.” She also released the dates and cities on her official website.

The timing of the announcement, which comes just days before the Grammy Awards on Sunday, sparks speculation that the singer may perform or at least appear on the show. Beyoncé is the most nominated artist for the awards with nine, all related to “ Renaissance .” Sources tell Variety that her husband Jay-Z will perform with DJ Khaled on the show, most likely their nominated song “God Did.”

Beyoncé has said that “Renaissance” is a three-part project, so it’s possible that the next parts could be another album, a long-form video project or even the tour itself.

Beyoncé’s last full tour was the nearly six-month, 49-date “Formation” tour in 2016, which unusually featured no guest appearances until the final show, at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, where she brought out Kendrick Lamar and Jay-Z.

She did, however, stage an epochal “Homecoming” headlining performance at the 2018 Coachella festival — which was postponed from 2017 due to the birth of her and Jay’s twins — for which she was accompanied by a full marching band in a nod to historically Black colleges and universities. That blockbuster performance was later released as the “Homecoming” album and — via a three-project deal with Netflix that sources tell Variety is worth $60 million — a feature-length documentary. It seems possible that a future “Renaissance” video project could be part of that deal as well.

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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 Murrayfield 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 Cruijff 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, NC – 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 – GEHA Field At 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

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Fans Think Beyoncé Is Gearing Up To Announce ‘Renaissance Tour’ Australian Tickets

Beyoncé ‘Beyhive’ fans were in a flurry back in February 2023 when the superstar singer announced the Renaissance World Tour on her Instagram. The tour was due to run from May to September and covered Europe and North America, but no Australian or Asia-Pacific dates were announced.

“Beyoncé, I’d like to remind you that Australia is in the world…” one fan posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.

So, fans have watched on jealously revelling in all of her iconic designer outfits and breath-taking performances , thinking she’d never head down under. However, now it seems Beyoncé may be bringing her Renaissance Tour to Australia sooner than expected.

Is Beyoncé Bringing Her Renaissance Tour To Australia?

Beyoncé has not announced an Australian leg of her Renaissance Tour as yet, but that’s not to say that she won’t.

A TikTok of a recent concert has fans hyped up that Bey could be announcing dates soon. While we have to take such fan theories with a grain of salt, it is a promising sign for the Beyhive to cling on to.

You see, the screen on her stage set up featured three dates, London (7.11.01), Vancouver (23.11.01) and Sydney (16.11.01).

“WELL I HOPE SHE COMES TO SYDNEY, COZ THIS IS JUST A TEASE IF SHE DOESN’T,” one fan wrote on the TikTok.

While some fans were trying to do Swiftie-level maths on the significance of the number 16, others were quick to postulate that it was simply an international clock reading ‘16’ as ‘4pm’.

However, there have been endless rumours Bey plans to go ‘Down Under’, especially given the final date at the moment is set to be in Kansas City on October 1, 2023. Could she be using this international clock to point fans to an antipodean concert?

Well, there have been unconfirmed reports that tour promoters are already saying ‘dates are locked in’. There was also reports through  Sydney Morning Herald that acts like Beyoncé and the Foo Fighters are being denied Allianz Stadium as a venue because it can only host a small number of concerts a year in accordance with noise complaints. 

A spokesperson for Accor Stadium in Olympic Park said, “When you think of concerts that have been held at Accor, they are the major acts in the world, like Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift, Harry Styles and Adele.”

“ So, why would a star like Beyoncé and her promoters choose Allianz when the other major stars in the world choose Australia’s major events precinct, Sydney Olympic Park?”

It all seems a little tenuous at this stage, but big fans are hoping on a dream that their Queen will take her throne in Sydney once more.

Has Beyoncé Ever Toured Australia?

The omission of Australia from the Renaissance World Tour is suspect, as Beyoncé has traditionally toured her shows in Down Under in the past.

She last performed in Australia for the Mrs. Carter World Tour in October and November 2013, going to every capital city except Darwin and Hobart.

She also came to Australia in 2009 for the I Am … World Tour and her first ever world tour in 2007.

Where To Get Tickets To Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour?

At this stage, as no Australian dates have been announced, we can’t purchase tickets for the show. In all likelihood they would be released through Ticketek if the show was going ahead.

If you’re willing to travel across the pond to watch Beyoncé do her thing on stage, tickets are purchased through Ticketmaster.

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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.

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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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The singer’s record-breaking album is set to make history at this weekend’s Grammys. By Rosa Sanchez

THE RUMOURS are true;  Beyoncé  is taking her record-breaking album  Renaissance  on a tour around the world.

The superstar dropped the news this Wednesday morning on Instagram. In a post, she shared a photo of herself wearing a bejewelled armour-like bodysuit and silver mirrored cowboy hat while sitting atop a holographic horse.

“RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR 2023,” she simply wrote in the caption.

Beyoncé released her seventh studio album on July 29, 2022, after recording it over three years during the COVID-19 pandemic. The singer wrote about the project in an open letter to fans.

“Creating this album allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world,” she shared. “It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment. A place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom. It was a beautiful journey of exploration.”

With  Renaissance,  Beyoncé has made Grammys history. For  this year’s ceremony , the star is nominated for nine awards, bringing her up to a total of 88 nominations to date. In a romantic turn, this ties her for the most-nominated artist in Grammys history with none other than her husband, Jay-Z.

Beyoncé’s  Renaissance  smash “Break My Soul” is nominated for Record of the Year. This is her eighth nomination in the category and makes her the artist with the most ROTY nominations of all time. The track is also up for Best Dance/Electronic Recording, and   the album is nominated for Best Dance/Electronic Music Album.

Is Beyoncé’s Renaissance tour coming to Australia?

An Australian and/or New Zealand leg of the tour has not yet been announced. Watch her for updates.

A version of this article originally appeared on Harper’s BAZAAR US.

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On Her Renaissance Tour, the World Is Beyoncé’s Ball

The pop superstar’s first solo outing in seven years draws on the dance-music cultures that inspired her 2022 album, and her work that led up to that ecstatic release.

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It was a crowd that had come to dance, dressed for a rodeo in the distant future: sparkling cowboy hats, silvery fringe, outré sunglasses and any other sartorial detail that represented “Renaissance,” Beyoncé’s dazzling seventh album and the occasion for her first solo tour in seven years. But as the imperial pop superstar took the stage at the Rogers Center in Toronto on Saturday night for the first North American show of her Renaissance World Tour, she reminded the club-ready audience just who was in charge. Because if they were prepared to move, she was going to make them wait a little longer.

Setting the table for a two-and-a-half-hour performance that was visually spectacular, vocally ambitious and sometimes tonally confused, Beyoncé, 41 — clad in a glimmering chain-mail mini dress — began the show with a nearly 30-minute stretch of ballads and deep cuts that harked back to her past: an acrobatically sung solo rendition of the 2001 Destiny’s Child track “Dangerously in Love,” a bit of “Flaws and All” from the deluxe edition of her 2007 album “B’Day,” and the sparse, soulful “1+1” from 2011, which she belted atop a mirrored piano.

It was a both a display of her vocal agility and a curiously traditional way to start a show centered around an album as conceptually bold and forward-thinking as “Renaissance” — a sprawling, knowingly referential romp through the history of dance music , with an emphasis on the contributions of Black and queer innovators. Here, instead, was a stopover in Beyoncé’s Middle Ages.

As a live entertainer, though, she has earned a fresh start. The Renaissance World Tour shows are some of Beyoncé’s first appearances since her dazzling, commanding performance headlining the 2018 Coachella festival (later released as the concert film and live album “Homecoming”), which served as a kind of mic-drop capstone to her career thus far. It would be futile to repeat that, and difficult to top it. The loose, fluid “Renaissance,” still said to be the first part of a trilogy , represents a new chapter in Beyoncé’s recorded oeuvre. And once the show finally found its center and, however belatedly, welcomed the crowd to the Renaissance, it heralded her maturity as a performer, too.

The show’s look — as projected in diamond-sharp definition onto a panoramic screen — conjured Fritz Lang’s “ Metropolis ” by way of the 1990 drag ball documentary “Paris Is Burning.” After a lengthy video introduction, Beyoncé emerged from a chrome cocoon and vamped through a thrilling stretch of the first suite of “Renaissance” songs; during “Cozy,” most strikingly, a pair of hydraulic robotic arms centered her body in industrial picture frames, like a post-human Mona Lisa.

In May, when Beyoncé began the European leg of the Renaissance World Tour, rumors swirled that she may have been recovering from a foot injury, since her choreography was a bit more static and less stomp-heavy than usual. The Toronto show did nothing to dispel that chatter, but it also showed that it doesn’t matter much. Perhaps because of some constraints, Beyoncé has embraced new means of bodily expression. She brought the flavor of ball movements into the show and served face all night, curling her lip like a hungry predator, widening her eyes in mock surprise, scrunching her features in exaggerated disgust.

Few seats in the stadium provided a legible view of Beyoncé’s face, of course, though the screen took care of that. She played expertly to the cameras that followed her every choreographed move, aware of how she’d appear to the majority of the audience and — perhaps just as crucially — in FOMO-inducing social media videos. The stage itself was breathtaking, featuring an arced cutout section of the screen that made for playful visuals, but its full grandeur was not visible from many of the side seats, making the band and sometimes the dancers difficult to see.

The screen, though, was the point. Beyoncé’s two solo releases before “Renaissance” — her 2013 self-titled album and “Lemonade,” from 2016 — were billed as “visual albums,” featuring a fully realized music video for each track. Again toying with her fans’ anticipation, she has still not released any videos from “Renaissance,” giving the previously unseen graphics that filled her expansive backdrop an added impact, and making them feel more weighty than a convenient way to pass time between costume changes.

Many of the tour’s outfits struck a balance between Beyoncé’s signature styles — megawatt sparkles, high-cut bodysuits — and the futuristic bent of “Renaissance.” She played haute couture bee in custom Mugler by Casey Cadwallader and glimmered in a Gucci corset draped with crystals. But the night’s most memorable look — so instantly iconic that a few fans had already tried to replicate it, from photos of the European shows — was a flesh-tone catsuit by the Spanish label Loewe, embellished with a few suggestively placed, red-fingernailed hands.

Throughout the set, Beyoncé wove interpolations of her predecessors’ songs throughout her own, as if to place her music in a larger continuum. The grandiose “I Care” segued into a bit of “River Deep, Mountain High,” in honor of Tina Turner, who died in May . The cheery throwback “Love on Top” contained elements of the Jackson 5’s “Want You Back.” Most effective was the “Queens Remix” she performed of “Break My Soul,” which mashes up the “Renaissance” leadoff single with Madonna’s “Vogue,” paying homage to the mainstream pop star who brought queer ball culture to the masses before her. (The merch on sale at a Renaissance Tour pop-up shop in the days before the show included a hand-held fan emblazoned with the song title “Heated” for $40. It sold out.)

The show contained moments that sometimes felt conceptually cluttered and at odds with the “Renaissance” album’s sharp vision, like dorm-room-poster quotes from Albert Einstein and Jim Morrison that filled the screen during video montages. The middle stretch, arriving with a lively “Formation,” featured Beyoncé and her dancers clad in camo print, riding and occasionally writhing atop a prop military vehicle. There was a wordless, gestural power in the moment she and her entourage held their fists in the air, referencing a salute that had rankled some easily rankle-able viewers of the 2016 Super Bowl Halftime Show. But if Beyoncé was calling for any more specific forms of protest or political awareness — especially in a moment when drag culture and queer expression are being threatened at home and throughout the world — those went unarticulated.

Beyoncé’s endurance as a world-class performer remained the show’s raison d’être; she is the rare major pop star who prizes live vocal prowess. By the end of the long night — and especially during the striking closing number, the disco reverie “Summer Renaissance,” when she floated above the crowd like a deity on a glittering horse — she extended the microphone to lend out some of the high notes to her eager and adoring fans. “Until next time,” she said, keeping the stage banter relatively minimal and pat. “Drive home safe!”

Even when Beyoncé embraces styles and cultures known for their improvisational looseness, she still seems to be striving toward perfection — a pageant smile always threatens to break through the stank face. Commanding a stadium-sized audience, she was an introvert wearing an extrovert’s armor. That tension is part of both her boundless charm and her occasional limitations as a performer. And it makes moments of genuine spontaneity all the more prized.

Naturally, #RenaissanceWorldTour was trending on Twitter long after the show, but one of the clips that went viral was unplanned. During a rousing performance of her early hit “Diva,” Beyoncé accidentally dropped her sunglasses. She fumbled them for a second, mouthed an expletive as they fell to the ground, and gave a sincere, shrugging grin before snapping back into the choreography’s formation. For a fleeting moment, she seemed human after all.

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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Everything to Know About Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour

B eyoncé’s fans have been waiting for this day: the pop megastar finally announced that she will embark on the long-awaited Renaissance World Tour. She uploaded a post to Instagram early Wednesday morning with the caption: “RENAISSANCE WORLD TOUR 2023,” and her official website has been updated to show the tour dates. The tour starts in May in Sweden and will hit Belgium, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Poland, before she makes her way to North America. The first date stateside will be in Philadelphia, Pa., in July and the tour will hit the major U.S. cities before wrapping up in New Orleans, La., on Sept. 27.

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Following the release of her seventh album, Renaissance , in July, fans have been itching for a tour announcement, in addition to music videos to accompany the songs. Beyoncé’s last solo tour was the Formation World Tour back in 2016 to support her sixth album, Lemonade . Following that, she went on the On The Run Tour with her husband, Jay-Z, in 2018 after releasing their joint project, Everything Is Love . The announcement of a new tour just before the Grammy Awards on Sunday raises suspicion that Beyoncé might be performing or, at the very least, attending the night’s festivities.

The singer is nominated for nine Grammys at this year’s awards ceremony, which are set to take place on Feb. 5 in Los Angeles. This year, she is up against Adele for multiple awards, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year, and Record of the Year. There has been speculation about whether or not Beyoncé would be performing ever since the nominations were announced. The last time fans saw her perform on a major televised stage was at last year’s Oscars ceremony, where she performed “Be Alive” from the King Richard movie for the first time.

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Beyoncé most recently took the stage for a private concert at the opening of the Atlantis The Royal resort in Dubai in January. However, she did not perform any songs from Renaissance . Also, given that Beyoncé unveiled the album’s title on Instagram as “act [one],” her dedicated fanbase has been busy theorizing what acts two and three might be. Some have hypothesized that the tour would be act two and then a concert movie would be act three. Others have ventured to guess that this is a three-part album and that Renaissance was just the beginning.

Tickets for the concert will not be an easy get if Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour is any indication. Beyoncé’s fans can click on the date they would like to attend to register for Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan program and will then have to wait to see if they are given an access code to purchase tickets to the event. With Verified Fan and the “unexpected” traffic the pre-sale brought to the site, many Swifties likened the ticket-buying process to a warzone. The disastrous rollout drew ire from Swift’s fans and political officials alike. After the ticketing fiasco, the Senate held a hearing to look into whether Live Nation and Ticketmaster have a monopoly over the ticketing industry. This, coupled with the technical problems that Swift fans faced, have Beyoncé fans worrying that finding their way to an actual concert will be nothing short of an ordeal.

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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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Regarding Beyoncé, Mother of the House of Renaissance

By Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

When Renaissance dropped last summer, it was perfect timing. The masses were ready to shake off that last bit of ennui wrought by pandemic isolation, and Beyoncé exhorted us to celebrate that we were alive en masse, and to do so in the face of all that was scary: crowds, evil bosses, legislators, haters, the Supreme Court. “ Break My Soul ,” the single indebted to ’90s vocal house, was a jubilant, defiant protest. Its arrival on June 20, 2022, just four days before SCOTUS overturned Roe v. Wade , meant that it soundtracked furious pro-choice rallies across the country. It also lent itself to a larger landscape: a perfect lip-sync song in the era of state-level drag bans, a song of strength devoted to Black women and LGBTQ people in the ongoing fight for justice.

Millions of people have been enthralled by Beyoncé’s live imagination of Renaissance since it hit the road this May in Stockholm. When I saw her perform for a crowd of 82,000 at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium this summer, it was impossible not to think of this timing. Her vehement demand for joy as an intervention was on full display, on giant glittering screens projecting her every expression and accessory. The pan-African flag gleamed across the masses as she sang “Black Parade” from atop a silver tank, her eleven-year-old daughter Blue Ivy raising a Black Power fist at her flank. The sound of ballroom artist Kevin JZ Prodigy commentated “cunt to the feminine what, ow” in staccato cracks as she hand-twirled into the quiet ferocity of “Cozy.” The rejuvenating tribute to her idol, the icon and queen of rock Tina Turner, with a transcendent rendition of “River Deep, Mountain High.” The retrofitting of the famous Italian painting The Birth of Venus , in which she emerged like a pearl on the half shell via Flora Purim singing “Plastic Off the Sofa.” The visibility she gave her inclusive, euphoric array of dancers and performers, including those who were nonbinary, transgender, plus-size, and, in the case of one trumpeter in her famous all-woman band, pregnant. The space she gave voguers from the ballroom scene, including Darius Hickman , Carlos Basquiat , and Honey Balenciaga , to express the beauty of their art.

That concert was one day after one of her fans, a 28-year-old Black dancer named O’Shae Sibley , was murdered in a racist and homophobic hate crime at a gas station in Brooklyn, simply for voguing to Renaissance . (The chant that followed at a memorial in Los Angeles, one of several across the country, went: “O-O-O-Shae. He was voguing to Beyoncé.”) Balenciaga took time off to join mourners in Brooklyn, and Beyoncé paid her respects . O’Shae Sibley’s death underscored the importance of her speaking directly to her queer fans, using her massive power as a place for others to reflect themselves back and, one hopes, teach everyone else respect and tolerance. The devil is working hard , but Beyoncé works harder.

And in a disquieting climate in which a young Black man can be targeted simply for expressing his joy, it’s a massive relief to experience something that feels like an unencumbered blast of good, even amidst the very real fact that inclusion and catharsis is not protection . In that way, Renaissance has been the year’s defining, galvanizing cultural event, a release in which the catharsis of the club has been replicated on a massive scale. Fashion alone has been altered irrevocably: Beyoncé’s custom looks for each concert are chronicled in all their intricate splendor on her Instagram , and her label Parkwood has been posting the fans in kind, showcasing their gorgeous outfit photos from each tour stop. (In late August, Beyoncé requested attendees “wear your most fabulous silver fashions” in honor of her birthday and Virgo season.)

The way attendees have been showing out reflects their widespread intent to be active participants in one of the most inclusive pop tours ever staged. They’ve spent massive amounts of money to travel overseas for early stops of the tour, to buy outfits that represent both the flashiest church and sophisticated club afters, and to be a member of the Renaissance. I saw these things span across age, race, gender identity, sexual orientation, even class differences, as evidenced by the high-low range of the style and ingenious amount of DIY fashion. While the active, enthusiastic participation has been delicious for fans to watch online, it felt even better to be cocooned in it in person—throngs of showgoers clad in glimmering sequins, silvery cowboy boots, iridescent hats, and LED accessories, taking a cue from the Renaissance cover art and Beyoncé's equine partner, the mirrorball-clad Reneigh. (Everyone, it seems, is a horse girl now.) Fans have been instrumental in the actualization of the tour and the crucial key to its ambience and sense of communal activity. When I was there, even the security was hype. In my row in the stands, an exceedingly jovial guard—over-50 and white, with a Jersey accent—took outfit photos for showgoers with their phones. When he saw my friend and I laughing happily at his enthusiasm, he admitted with a grin, “I turn into a bad bitch for Mrs. Carter!”

That fandom and connection goes beyond the camaraderie and aesthetics of such a show. In the realm of performance, there is simply no one better than Beyoncé, who is living proof that women don’t wither and die in middle age, they flourish. For the duration of her career, she has delivered pristine vocals alongside punishing athleticism, all while holding her facial expressions at exactly the correct angle and leading a gargantuan stage with tens of dancers and musicians. It’s the level of greatness that solicits respect from the greats themselves. On the Renaissance tour stop that fell on her birthday in September, Diana Ross—79 and still going strong—came onstage to support Beyoncé, leading a muva-to-muva singalong of “Happy Birthday” that ended with a heartfelt hug. “I’m thankful for every flaw, every stretch mark, every FUPA… I’m thankful that I’m here, at fuckin’ 42,” Beyoncé said before the going into the song “Flaws and All.” She held court in a black lace gown custom-made by Dolce & Gabbana, looking every bit the regal diva, making a promise that she’s nowhere near half-done. There is strength in seeing adult women command such massive audiences, and a reminder that our own wrinkles, or stretch marks, or crow’s feet don’t define us, but rather showcase our experiences and wisdom.

Beyoncé opens the Renaissance shows with a run of four ballads, including a majestically felt rendition of “Dangerously in Love” and Mary J. Blige’s “I’m Goin’ Down”—itself a cover of ’70s soul group Rose Royce—that grounds her as a brolic purveyor of blues. Through the rhythmic three hours that follow, she interpolates—live remixes, really—her own discography into itself as well as intergenerational cuts from other artists (“Love on Top” with the Jackson 5’s “I Want You Back,” to cite one ). Three-quarters of the way through the concert, she performs her transcendent cover of Frankie Beverly and Maze’s “Before I Let Go,” a nod to her Homecoming album and another link from her own music to Black pop hits past. She improvised deep cuts, too: upon seeing Tia Mowry in the Los Angeles crowd, she interpolated a bit of “ Yeah, Yeah, Yeah ,” a song Mowry released with her girl group Voices in 1992, when Bey was a tween. Throughout, she deploys the sorts of extravagance and camp that ballroom values, Mothering outlandishly through her “Heated” commentating , inspiring Beyoncslay memes across social media, and making an interactive game out of which city shushes most thoroughly when she sings “look around, everybody on mute” in “Energy.” (Houston seems to have won.)

No one else at this level possesses the same combination of historical gravitas and trenchant work ethic, or uses their platform to link their work to the roots of American Black music and beyond. Take, for instance, the segment in the Renaissance tour when she uses a costume change break to edify the audience about the history of house, with videos about its importance set to soundtracks like “ Percolator ” and “ Hot Music ,” the unofficial theme songs of New York City block parties for three decades. She not only grounds Renaissance in a long lineage, she reminds audiences that house music is Black music, and important to understanding its presence. To that end, she has enlisted a slate of young, queer, Black, and regional DJs to provide opening music—and vibes—for Club Renaissance, including Arca, Ariel Zetina, Mike Q, and Uniiqu3, both cosigning them and giving them the rare opportunity of playing music for stadiums. She’s also blessed regional stars at certain chosen stops—Kendrick in L.A., Megan Thee Stallion performing the “Savage Remix” for the first time ever in Houston, and a solid rumor that Big Freedia will join her on “Break My Soul” for her stop in New Orleans this week.

It’s hard to think of a massive pop tour that speaks so clearly and perfectly to its sociopolitical moment as the Renaissance tour. Beychella , to be sure, Beyoncé's 2018 culture-shifter devoted to Black feminism, HBCUs, and the nuances of various Black artforms. Before that, perhaps Madonna's 1990 Blond Ambition tour, when she performed “Vogue” in an earlier era of heightened homophobia and transphobia, flaunting her sexuality and power in a time when silence equaled death . As it happened, Madonna was in the audience in New Jersey , witnessing Beyoncé perform her Black woman-elevating remix of “Vogue,” as a sort of passing of the torch between Queens of Pop.

Maybe some of that freedom was simply Beyoncé living her house diva dreams, a significant statement in itself. So many pop house divas of the past were erased from the popular record of the time, a record that is only beginning to be corrected . The iconic Martha Wash, of the Weather Girls, spent the fatphobic ’80s and ’90s suing for her own credits , after being replaced with younger and thinner women lip-syncing her vocals in the videos for Black Box’s “Everybody Everybody” and C+C Music Factory's “Gonna Make You Sweat.” Those lawsuits were perhaps the best known, but similar stories of erasure have played out with Loleatta Holloway , Jocelyn Brown , Kelli-Leigh , and more, where Black women vocalists transformed scores of songs into indelible classics, but are viewed by their male producers and record labels as throwaway, mere clips to sample, or tertiary to the real genius.

Beyoncé placing herself in front of this history won’t right those wrongs, and it is easy to ascribe dreams and aspirations onto her. As with many pop stars, her moves don’t always square with the values she performs . But she does have the cultural power to reorient the narrative even just a little, whether centering house divas or paying homage to LGBTQ Black and Latine ballroom originators. (Plus vocalists are infinitely more interesting to watch than DJs, particularly in a climate when staring has supplanted dancing.) It is not uncommon to get hyperbolic about Beyoncé. She has, like many pop stars, been deified to the point of Veladoras hawked by candle companies, her beatific visage and unfailingly sick fits replacing the benevolent gaze and gently draped robe of La Virgen. During her tour she assumed the role of the conduit and protector; she is the “Mother of the House of Renaissance ,” as a voice-over goes in the tour as she fans herself in the style of the ball. A house mother is the keeper of her children, and her children are genuflected. But the Renaissance tour’s most important act was bringing Beyoncé’s fans together in massive numbers, creating a space in which joy can build and attendees can experience sweet release. That’s what dance music, at its beating heart, is about.

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The rumour mill is rife with the gossip that Beyonce is coming to Australia in 2023!

Beyonce's Renaissance Tour Coming to Australia in 2023

Beyonce is set to bring her Renaissance World Tour to Australia in 2023, and we can't believe that this news might actually be real!

It can be hard to believe idle gossip, but we have it on good authority that this news might just be the real deal. It's been nearly 10 years since Beyonce toured Australia (her last concert was The Mrs Carter Show tour in 2013), so 2023 will be the 10th anniversary - perfect timing, we think!

Tour promoters have confirmed that ‘dates have been locked in’ and will see Beyonce performing in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth before touring New Zealand. 

While we are yet to know the dates of when Beyonce will be playing in Sydney, it's rumoured that she could be coming to Sydney in November 2023 . Beyonce’s Renaissance World Tour starts in Stockholm on 10 May with dates booked through to 27 September, when she plays in New Orleans.

Renaissance is Beyonce's seventh studio album and has received rave reviews since it was released in July 2022. 

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Beyonce announces ‘Renaissance’ world tour

The US megastar has triggered pandemonium among her fanbase with a racy photo and a stunning announcement.

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Beyonce has announced a world tour for her latest album Renaissance.

The 41-year-old US megastar took to Instagram with a racy photo of herself wearing jewel-encrusted lingerie while straddling a fake horse to make the news.

The upcoming tour kicks off in Europe in May this year, before moving onto North America from July.

The Cuff It singer, who released her seventh studio album in July last year to much fanfare, is yet to announce Australian dates, though they are reportedly imminent.

The mother-of-three last toured Australia in 2013 with her Mrs. Carter Show tour.

Beyonce’s post clocked up a mammoth 6.3 million likes after just hours, with some of the world’s top brand accounts flooding the comments section.

Instagram’s official handle wrote, “Something has shifted in the cosmos”, while Target commented, “using 3 laptops and 5 phones to get these tickets.”

YouTube added, “alright everyone thoughts and prayers we get tickets.”

Renaissance came after 2016’s headline-making Lemonade debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart, and became her seventh consecutive album to achieve the feat.

Renaissance was named the best album of the year in 2022 by the likes of Los Angeles Times, The New York Times , and Rolling Stone.

It has also been nominated for nine Grammys at the 65th annual ceremony this coming Monday, including Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Record of the Year.

Beyonce earlier revealed Renaissance was the first instalment as part of a trilogy of albums, which she worked on over three years during the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a note to fans on her official website in July, Beyonce wrote: “Creating this album [ Renaissance ] allowed me a place to dream and to find escape during a scary time for the world.

“It allowed me to feel free and adventurous in a time when little else was moving. My intention was to create a safe place, a place without judgment, a place to be free of perfectionism and overthinking. A place to scream, release, feel freedom. It was a beautiful journey of exploration.”

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The tour marks Beyonce’s first extended stretch on the road since the On the Run tour in 2018.

Ahead of the tour, Beyonce famously performed her first headlining concert in four years at the Atlantis the Royal hotel launch in Dubai last month.

She was reportedly paid around $35 million to do the one-off show.

The Australian leg of a superstar North American artist’s world tour was in doubt but has now officially been canned. See what it means for ticketholders.

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Fatima Robinson Talks Beyoncé's Renaissance Tour, Crowns Her ‘The Michael Jackson of Our Time'

Beyoncé may be riding high off Cowboy Carter right now, but Renaissance is the gift that keeps on giving.

In a revelatory conversation with Ahmir Questlove Thompson on his Questlove Supreme podcast, renowned choreographer Fatima Robinson revealed how Beyoncé came up with stage design and concept for the Renaissance World Tour during the pandemic - and why the superstar shifted her approach to dance on her most recent trek.

"That was Beyoncé sitting in a pandemic with a lot of time on her hands and coming up with the most incredible, creative stage that I had ever gotten to work on," Robinson gushed of the Renaissance World Tour stage. The sold-out stadium tour featured two separate platforms connected by a moving ramp, a main stage complete with a sprawling flatscreen, a B stage that stretched into the crowd, and a slew of props including, a tank, pyrotechnics, a laser show, a giant clam shell, robot arms, a flying "disco horse" and various levitating platforms.

In Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé - the box office-topping documentary concert film chronicling the conception and execution of the tour - Queen Bey revealed that the tour was planned over four years, and three identical stages were developed for the show. The $580 million-grossing tour also featured 22 dancers, including her eldest daughter, Grammy winner Blue Ivy Carter .

"She has quite a few choreographers across her span of music," said Robinson. "We gave me the title ‘director of choreography' because I was the point person that all the choreographers worked under and with. It was such a big boulder to get up a hill, that show."

While Robinson has worked with Beyoncé in the past - most notably on 2006's Oscar-winning Dreamgirls and her "Be Alive" performance at the 2022 Oscars - she joined forces with several other choreographers for the Renaissance tour, including her two other team members, Chris Grant and four other choreographers who worked on numbers sporadically.

Her first solo concert tour since 2016's Formation World Tour , the Renaissance World Tour presented a notably different Beyoncé. While the three-hour show was still a feast for the eyes and ears, the performance included less intense choreography than her past tours - partially due to a knee injury she suffered before those 56 sold-out shows.

"We were having a lot of conversations around when is enough enough? " Robinson explained. "You have nothing to prove, Bey. You are our Michael Jackson of our time. We're like athletes, at a certain point, you have to just say "Okay, I'm gonna do it, but I'm gonna also take care of myself and be mindful of what my body is telling me right now."

Robinson's revelations echo sentiments Beyoncé herself shared in Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé . Throughout the documentary, Queen Bey mused about looking to her idols to inform how she moves in her career. The Renaissance tour was a celebration of that, from a surprise appearance from Diana Ross to a multi-city tribute to the late Tina Turner .

"Look at how Prince was when he passed away, he had those hip replacements because of all those splits and stuff," noted Robinson. "Look where Michael [Jackson] is. We want you around performing for years to come, so let's not put that kind of pressure. Let's ease into it, let's stand there and be powerful and step into a different kind of power, and guess what? They gon' come with you!"

That approach to performing also resulted in a very Beyoncé take on the concept of an opening act. For each show, Beyoncé began with a set of ballads , introduced by a beautiful piano-led rendition of 2003's seminal "Dangerously In Love 2."

"I turned to her and I was like, ‘This is really fly, starting with ballads,'" recounted Robinson. "She laughed and she said, "I'm opening up for myself!"

In addition to the Renaissance World Tour, Robinson also worked on 2023's The Color Purple movie musical, which topped the domestic box office on opening day and earned one Oscar nomination.

Click here to watch the full clip of Fatima Robinson describing the creation of the Renaissance World Tour.

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AMC makes big distribution moves after Taylor Swift, Beyoncé wins

After Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé, AMC Theatres wants to grow as a distributor.

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After the successes of Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé , AMC Theatres is making a bold decision.

Variety is reporting that the theater chain is going to further get into the distribution game. The chain has seen success as a distributor thanks to the aforementioned concert films. They appear to believe there's even more room to grow.

They are expanding their team as they have hired Stephanie Terifay as the VP of Distribution. She previously worked with Fandango as a part of their integrated marketing team.

Additionally, AMC Theatres has promoted Kevin Arnold to VP of programming promotions and partnerships. This move was made effective immediately. Arnold has been with the company since 2011 and has continuously climbed the ladder. His role will now oversee “promotional strategies that aim to drive moviegoer engagement and increase ticket sales,” per Variety's report.

“The remarkable success of AMC Theatres Distribution last fall opened an exciting  new business for AMC, and we are thrilled to have Stephanie Terifay's expertise and enthusiasm build upon the brilliant leadership of Nikkole Denson-Randolph,” AMC's chief content officer Elizabeth Frank said. “Through the addition of Stephania and the much-deserved elevation of Kevin Arnold, AMC Theatres Distribution is well positioned to continue to deliver exciting and compelling content to moviegoers at AMC and across the industry domestically and internationally.”

 AMC's success with Taylor Swift, Beyoncé

In the fall, AMC had huge hits including Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour and Renaissance: A Film by Beyoncé. The concert films proved to be moneymakers, as the former film made over $260 million, the most ever by a concert film, and the latter made $43 million.

Both Swift and Beyoncè made unique moves. They went directly to the theater chain to distribute their films, forgoing a traditional studio to distribute the film. The bets clearly paid off, and it makes sense that AMC wants to capitalize on concert films' popularity.

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Sure, Swift's film benefited from the “Eras” tour being the biggest of 2023. The tour is still going on, with Swift gearing up for a European leg ahead of her return to the United States.

There are plenty of other artists who will likely see the model Swift and Beyoncé took and attempt to find similar success.

The moves made by AMC are also unlikely to be exclusive to concert films. Don't forget, AMC also distributed Kiss the Future. The documentary chronicled U2's “Popmart” tour concert in Sarajevo in 1997. With names like Matt Damon and Ben Affleck backing it, it was a no-brainer for the theater chain to pick it up.

Perhaps independent films will begin going to the theater chain for distribution. Filmmaking is a risky business, as there is no such thing as guaranteed hits. AMC is opening new avenues for distribution and success.

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Beyoncé reveals her exact haircare routine - and it may surprise you

Bey walked us through her extensive cécred washday routine.

Beyoncé is notoriously private so when the superstar gives us a glimpse into her life, we sit up and listen. 

The Texas Hold 'Em singer is known for her ever-changing hairstyles but many of these looks, including her incredible ' Texan hair' , could well be attributed to wigs rather than repeatedly restyling her natural locks. 

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Following the release of her new haircare brand, Cécred, fans were quick to question what her real hair actually looks like. Lo and behold, Beyoncé obliged and shared her entire washday routine, detailing every product she swears by to keep her natural hair healthy.

Posting to her 319 million followers, Bey did a voiceover with the video: "Now that Cécred is known for the quality and what is does for your hair, I think it’s about time I showed what it does for my hair."

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Revealing her surprisingly long natural hair, Beyoncé started her washday process with the Cécred Hydrating Shampoo , saying, "I love the lather, it's very soothing, the smells." The shampoo is a gentle formula, deeply cleansing the scalp and roots without stripping natural oils. Bey then explained that because she had fresh colour, the Fermented Rice and Rose Protein Ritual was the perfect next step. 

After this, Bey applies the Moisturizing Deep Conditioner through the lengths of her hair before rinsing and adding in some of the Moisture Sealing Lotion - a great product for smoothing the cuticle of the hair and promotion shine. She then moves onto blowdrying her hair with the Dyson Supersonic Hairdryer and Airwrap with the brush attachment. 

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According to Bey, she likes to blowdry her hair on "medium heat" because she tries to "stay away from heat as much as possible". Beyoncé then straightens her hair poker straight before adding in some loose, bouncy curls with a curling iron. The finishing touch? Bey adds in a few drops of the Nourishing Hair Oil to further enhance shine. 

What's in the Cécred Foundation Collection?

Cécred’s debut launch is the Foundation Collection, including eight products for every washday step. The lineup includes the Clarifying Shampoo & Scalp Scrub, Moisturizing Deep Conditioner, Hydrating Shampoo, Reconstructing Treatment Mask, Fermented Rice & Rose Protein Ritual, Moisture Sealing Lotion, Nourishing Hair Oil, and a Hydrating Conditioner is launching soon. 

Can you buy it in the UK?

Absolutely! You can shop for Cécred products on the website and have them shipped to the UK. 

What ingredients are in Cécred products?

Cécred is all about moisture so it's no surprise ingredients include shea butter, honey, squalane and rose - all known for their hydrating qualities. Also included is a patent-pending tech bioactive keratin ferment to repair signs of damage. The hydrating blend leaving strands super soft and shiny and, of course, they smell amazing. 

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