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Star choreographer-turned-rapper Charm La’Donna was only a junior at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts when she was scouted to dance backup for Madonna on her 2006 “Confessions” world tour.
“I had never left the United States before. Then suddenly, it was eight months with Madonna,” says La’Donna. The “Confessions” tour transported the then-16-year-old from her mother’s house in Compton to dozens of cities in Europe, Russia and Japan; those months spent globetrotting with Madonna’s crew provided her with a master class in translating music to movement.
“From the time I was a kid, everything about me has been interdisciplinary,” she says. “I don’t have a dance chapter, I don’t have a music chapter. My experiences can be broken down into chapters, but my gifts cannot.”