Beyonce posts first Instagram story, includes local dance team Twerk NOLA’s video

Beyonce posts first Instagram story, includes local dance team Twerk NOLA’s video

by Mary Staes | April 23, 2019

Queen Bey isn’t letting her foot off our necks anytime soon. After releasing her film and live album “Homecoming,” she finally posted her first Instagram story, showcasing the #BeforeILetGoChallenge.

Yes, the video is set to her remake of Maze’s classic song, where local bounce music legend DJ Jubilee can be heard. Now that dance visuals have hit, Beyonce has given another nod to New Orleans culture.

Dance group Twerk NOLA was featured in the story, dancing with the Easter Bunny in front of the Bunny Bread factory in New Orleans East.

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🐣Happy Easter from @twerknola x @damenrgz . . . . #BeforeIletgoBeyonceChallenge Share, like & comment! Thank you in advance!♥️ . 🙆🏾‍♀️@gigi_lafleur 🐰@damenrgz 🙆🏾‍♀️@jazziestyle 📸: @shay.the.weirdo #eastersunday #happyeaster #easterbunny #bunny #beyonce ##beychella #queenbey #beyhive #beychella #homecoming #nola #neworleans #beforeiletgochallenge #bunnyhop #twerkshopparty #twerknola™️

A post shared by Twerk NOLA™️ (@twerknola) on Apr 22, 2019 at 11:23am PDT

Twerk NOLA was also featured in 5th Ward Weebie’s remake of his hit “Lemme Find Out”, pushing for the community to vote.

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Mary Staes

Mary Staes is Digital Content Lead for Very Local. She works with our freelancers and crafts content for our social media platforms and website. Before Very Local, she worked with CBS affiliate WWL-TV as a web producer and weekend assignment editor for about 4 years. She has also handled broadcast coverage for 160 Marine Reserve training facilities while she served as an active duty Marine. As a native New Orleanian, she takes being "very local" to heart. She loves being intertwined with the culture and figuring out how there are less than two degrees of separation between us all, whether we're natives or not.