{"id":1212477,"date":"2022-09-28T11:26:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/how-we-were-contracted-to-perform-at-the-global-citizen-festival-with-usher-dwps-afrobeast-narrates-it-all\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T11:26:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T11:26:44","slug":"how-we-were-contracted-to-perform-at-the-global-citizen-festival-with-usher-dwps-afrobeast-narrates-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/how-we-were-contracted-to-perform-at-the-global-citizen-festival-with-usher-dwps-afrobeast-narrates-it-all\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018How we were contracted to perform at the Global Citizen Festival with Usher\u2019 \u2013 DWP\u2019s Afrobeast narrates it all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/afrobeasts.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Afrobeast. Credit: @afrobeast_ \u2014 Instagram<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Over the weekend, all roads led to the Black Star Square in Accra where the Global Citizen festival was held for the first time in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The show saw a host of artists both from home soil as well as the diaspora come together to serve patrons with electrifying performances as well as raise funds to end extreme poverty.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major highlights of the show was the performance from award-winning American RnB singer Usher, and Ghanaian dance group DWP Academy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"\/>\n<p>One of the leaders of the group, <em>Afrobeast<\/em> has narrated how they were contracted to share the stage with one of the world\u2019s biggest musicians.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview with Andy Dosty on Daybreak Hitz, <em>Afrobeast<\/em> narrated that he was contacted by one of Usher\u2019s choreographers.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, <em>Usher<\/em> and his team wanted to connect with the crowd using <em>Afrobeats\u2019<\/em> dance moves like the ones DWP displays in their videos on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got a DM (direct message) from one of Usher\u2019s choreographers, and she said they have followed our works and wanted to connect with the local talents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe said that Usher had a show in Ghana and they wanted us (DWP) to incorporate the afrobeats style with his sound and rhythm. So we accepted it and we did it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Afrobeast<\/em>, who choreographed the performance with <em>Usher<\/em> went ahead to give credit to his other group member whom all contributed to making their performance a success.<\/p>\n<p>Since my specialty is choreographing for people I accepted to do it but I had help from my group (DWP) and we did this together.<\/p>\n<p>Dance with Purpose (DWP) is a dance school located at the Lizzy Sports Complex in East Legon.<\/p>\n<p>The group dedicates three sessions each week to coaching young talented dancers of different ages with diverse backgrounds in various moves of African beats and rhythms to become top-class dancers.<\/p>\n<p>The group has featured in numerous top-class music videos including Beyonce\u2019s Already which features Ghana\u2019s Dancehall King Shatta Wale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/how-we-were-contracted-to-perform-at-the-global-citizen-festival-with-usher-dwps-afrobeast-narrates-it-all\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afrobeast. Credit: @afrobeast_ \u2014 Instagram Over the weekend, all roads led to the Black Star Square in Accra where the Global Citizen festival was held for the first time in Ghana. The show saw a host of artists both from home soil as well as the diaspora come together to serve patrons with electrifying performances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[14599,11179,3769,26473,7114,6128,2364,2481,7099],"class_list":["post-1212477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-afrobeast","tag-citizen","tag-contracted","tag-dwps","tag-festival","tag-global","tag-narrates","tag-perform","tag-usher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}