Did Beyoncé talk about the show’s choices in terms of its politics?

JaQUEL KNIGHT We don’t really consider it political. For us, it’s embracing who we are. The show was very black, for a lack of a better word, from all aspects, and we wanted to show love through who we are. This is where we come from and this is how we love and this is how we jam and this is our world. I think the whole H.B.C.U.s and the homecoming experience is a very specific experience. If you’ve never been to a homecoming game, you don’t know.

She wanted to introduce that to the world?

KNIGHT Yeah. That’s something that hasn’t been done before on the stage like this and it feels good. Beyoncé’s all about how can we do things differently, but keep the musicianship and the showmanship and the precision of it all — it just made sense. She’s been adding horns to her songs for the past couple of years and boom: Let’s get a whole band. So much of what we’ve been doing made sense in this world — even with the things we were doing with “Formation.”

What kind of movement looks good on Beyoncé? What is natural?

CHRIS GRANT She’s really good with her neck. She can really hit and snap at certain moments, but also be cool and chill.

KNIGHT She can do anything. She’s weird. I’ve seen times where she imitates people. When you put somebody magical in the room she will make them do it 10 times, 20 times. She’s pulling and learning from you and toward the end it’s like, “Wow — you are really studying me and you are really getting it.”