Charm Ladonna

Charm La'Donna, the professional name of Charmaine Jordan, is a choreographer, dancer, creative director, recording artist, and director who shapes movement for major contemporary music artists across tours, videos, award shows, and stadium spectacles. Born in Compton, California, La'Donna began dance classes at three and credits her mother, grandmother, and a wider community of women with making training possible. At ten she met choreographer Fatima Robinson, who became a mentor and later a professional bridge into choreography and creative direction.

While a senior at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, La'Donna joined Madonna's 2006 *Confessions* tour as a dancer. She later assisted Robinson while continuing higher education at UCLA—a pathway that grounded her large-scale visual work in the practical demands placed on dancers. Her collaboration with Kendrick Lamar brought widespread public visibility. In 2017 she served as choreographer and sole female dancer on his *DAMN.* tour, and later contributed choreography and performance to Lamar's 2018 Grammy Awards opening. Her work linked tight ensemble unison, theatrical imagery, and a performer's embodied point of view rather than treating dancers as background texture.

In 2019 La'Donna won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography for Rosalía and J Balvin's "Con Altura," negotiating movement vocabularies associated with hip-hop and flamenco-inflected pop performance. She expanded into recording under her own name, signing with Epic Records and releasing the seven-track EP *La'Donna* on 9 April 2021. The project joins rap and R&B-inflected production to dance-led visual presentation, making her a performer of material she also helps stage. Her official channel's "Palm Trees" video demonstrates how neighborhood, family, vehicles, and street-scale choreography become part of a self-authored screen world.

Her later portfolio includes major televised spectacles. The Television Academy lists two 2025 choreography nominations—for *Beyoncé Bowl* and Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl LIX halftime show—and a 2026 nomination for Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime show.