page_title: I Am... Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas
section_title: Background and development
hierarchical_section_title: I Am... Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas / Background and development
caption_attribution_description: English: Michael Jackson 2nd June 1988. "Wiener Stadion" venue in Vienna, Austria. Українська: Майкл Джексон 2 червня 1998 року у Відні, Австрія.
context_page_description: I Am... Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas is the third live and fourth video album by American singer Beyoncé. It was released on November 23, 2009 through Music World Entertainment and Columbia Records. The album was recorded at the Encore Theater in Paradise, Nevada, being filmed by Ed Burke, on August 2, 2009, during a stint of Beyoncé's I Am... World Tour. It features performances of over thirty songs, including her solo material, her recordings with the girl group Destiny's Child as well as behind-the-scenes footage. The film was directed by Nick Wickham and produced by Emer Patten.
  Footage from the film, titled Beyoncé – I Am... Yours, aired on the American Broadcasting Company on November 26, 2009. The special featured behind-the-scenes footage of Beyoncé's I Am... World Tour and it was watched by over 5.2 million viewers. The album was also promoted by being broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom and reissued in the form of a live instrumentals album. Upon its release, I Am... Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas received positive reviews from music critics, who generally praised the acoustic live performances of the songs.
context_section_description: Between July 30–August 2, 2009, Beyoncé had a revue titled I Am... Yours at the Encore Theater in Wynn Las Vegas during a stint on her worldwide I Am... Tour (2009–2010). Her performance was backed by her all-female band Suga Mama and an orchestra. The show was choreographed by Beyoncé and Frank Gatson Jr. Regarding her I Am... Yours revue, Beyoncé said: "I've always wanted to perform in Las Vegas, I've always wanted to do my own show there, because a lot of the icons that I look up to had amazing shows in Las Vegas. I thought if I'm going to have my own Las Vegas show, it has to be right and it has to have heart and soul and it has to be something memorable... My whole objective here is for people to see what they don't get to see. Just give me my band, give me a stage, some cool smoke and lights and you see the sweat, you see the pain, you see the love, you see the soul and it's about music."
  According to Beyoncé's father and then-manager, Music World Entertainment president and CEO Mathew Knowles, the decision to release I Am... Yours: An Intimate Performance at Wynn Las Vegas was prompted by the way the music was presented in the digital world and because "the live experience is becoming more important". He added that the live performances show the ability of the artists to entertain live, something that, according to him, "Beyoncé has proven [...] time after time". The film was directed by Nick Wickham and produced by Emer Patten. It was filmed by Ed Burke and executively produced by Beyoncé, Mathew Knowles and Sheira Rees-Davies.
caption: Beyoncé covered "I Wanna Be Where You Are" by Michael Jackson (pictured) during the revue.
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