An Oakland dance group shared the stage with rap superstar Snoop Dogg during a halftime performance at the new Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara.
The young dancers were notified of the surprise performance an hour before showtime, which not only was at the San Francisco 49ers' first regular season home opener, but also nationally televised on Sunday Night Football on NBC.
"Snoop is a big hip-hop artist so for us to be able to share the stage with this type of music and artist we look up to was pretty big," said Kim Sims-Battiste, the dance group's choreographer.
Sims-Battiste said the dancing group, Culture Shock, started 22 years ago in San Diego.
"It was a group of different dancers from different styles of dance," she said.
Those styles have now made a home in Oakland.
Sunday's halftime performance at Levi's Stadium was so big, Culture Shock reached out to the entire Bay Area dance community. Chakis Dance Studio in Suisun shared the spotlight by sending 40 dancers to participate.
About 200 Bay Area dancers were able to perform on stage next to the hip-hop icon.
