J.Lo’s Super Bowl Performance Will Feature 130 Dancers, 3 Costume Changes, and 27 Props
Jennifer Lopez will co-headline the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Shakira.
J.Lo’s creative directors say the show will feature about 130 dancers, three costume changes, and 27 props—all in four minutes.
It is unclear how J.Lo and Shakira will come together during the performance, but it will be “visual” and pay tribute to their Latina heritage.
It’s crunch-time for Jennifer Lopez, who, according to Entertainment Tonight, has been working with her creative directors Napoleon and Tabitha Dumo since September to prepare for the performance of a lifetime. She’s co-headlining the 2020 Super Bowl Halftime Show with Shakira at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on Feb. 2.
The halftime show will likely start around 8 p.m. (after the first two quarters of the game). And while she hasn’t given too much away, here’s what we know about J.Lo’s portion of the big night.
It’s unclear when or how J.Lo and Shakira will link up during the performance.
Although the artists will reportedly “come together” at some point, they each have four minutes to bring the house down with their own shows. Tabitha promised that it will be “visual,” but that’s all she could say. “It will be one of those performances that, when they’re together, you’ll be like, ‘Why didn’t this happen before?’” Napolean told ET.
J.Lo and Shakira also expressed their own excitement at an NFL press conference on Jan. 30. “When we finished the first run-through, Shakira looked at me and was like, ‘You were amazing!’ And I was like, ‘You were amazing!’ And I think it’s just different what we do,” Lopez said. “It’s very Shakira and it’s very Jennifer and I think that’s what you’re going to get from the performance. It’s a lot of energy and it’s very entertaining, there are heartfelt moments. I think we run the gamut. It’s packed with a lot of awesome moments.”
The show’s directors choreographed Madonna’s Super Bowl XLVI performance in 2012.
The Dumos, a married pair of director-dancers also known as Nappytabs, are no strangers to the halftime show or Lopez. They choreographed Madonna’s over-the-top set in 2012 at Super Bowl XLVI and creative directed J.Lo’s It’s My Party Tour. Needless to say, they’re excited to be back on the field with a good friend. They told ET that they couldn’t tease too much about her performance, but they did confirm some pretty epic numbers.
J.Lo’s portion will feature about 130 dancers, three costume changes, and 27 props.
Not to mention, a massive crew will set up and tear down the entire operation at warp speed. “There’s a whole choreographic performance in just the setup,” Napoleon told ET. “Let’s take Jennifer’s tour for instance. It took us three full days to set that [stage] up and perform. For Super Bowl, you’re doing that in seven minutes.”
And even though the couple has done this before, this year is a completely different ball game—literally. “The stuff that people don’t realize is the difficulty from venue to venue. We’re in Miami this year; there’s no roof, it’s open-air, and there’s natural grass [in the stadium]. So with that comes a whole bunch of restrictions of different things,” Napoleon said. “The planning is critical and outrageous. Producing this one is far more difficult than, say, producing a show that’s in one of the newer, open stadiums.”
According to the couple’s Instagram, they did their first in-stadium run through on Wednesday morning, but they’ve been rehearsing nine hours per day.
A post shared by Napoleon & Tabitha Dumo (@nappytabs) on Jan 26, 2020 at 9:52am PST
J.Lo and Shakira’s Latina heritage will be evident in show.
“What better place than Miami to have two Latina women at this time in a very machismo, manly sport, doing it in front of a huge Latin audience?” Tabitha added. “It’s pretty epic and pretty big.” The team has flown in some performers “from out of the country, from a Latin country,” per Tabitha, to join the performance. “I think the style of music you’ll hear will be very evident of the culture that the ladies both come from,” she said. “So we’re representing the culture in a way that shows the great entertainers that they are.”
That’s something that J.Lo herself is very excited about. “I think it’s important in this day and age for two Latin women to be standing on that stage—when Latinos are being treated a certain way in this country, or looked at a certain way—to show that we have a really specific and beautiful culture and worth and value, and we bring something to this country that’s necessary,” Lopez told Robert Pattinson in an interview for Variety’s Actors on Actors issue. “I think that’s going to be an amazing moment. That night, I want it to be a celebration of who we are. All of us, because we’re in this together.” The anticipation is real!
Catch the 2020 Super Bowl and halftime show on Fox starting at 6:30 p.m.
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