Biographies

ChoreographersMany choreographers have had an influence on dance throughout its history. Even today, choreographers are enhancing the look and feel of dance. Check out some of your favorite choreographers and find out how they got to where they are today. Jimmy LocustMaster of body motion, Jimmy Locust, knows how to extract focus, from himself and anyone he works with. Widely labeled one of the world’s hottest choreographers in the business today, he takes the accolade in stride as part of his universal outlook on life. Locust brings movements to life fusing smoothness, explosive energy and his expertise as a movement stylist... Tina LandonChoreographer Tina Landon is one of Hollywood's best kept secrets. Her sensual and provocative moves have become the landscape for popular music dance choreography for the last 10 years... Brian FriedmanBrian is quickly taking the exciting world of hip-hop and freestyle dance by storm with his unique sense of jazz and dance fashion... Marty DewTwenty-one-year-old Marty arrived in Los Angeles two years ago with a few suitcases, and a dream... Cris JuddCris did not make his rise to stardom overnight... Mia MichaelsIn everything from stage to screen, Mia has turned dance on its ear and into inspired and unique works of singular passion and beauty... Sergei DiaghilevSergei was a law student he moved to St. Petersburg and co-founded the progressive art magazine Mir Iskusstva (The World of Art) in 1899... Michael RooneyIt's no surprise that Michael, son of Mickey Rooney, has inherited his father's genius for musical comedy as well as the ability to add classic flare you seem to always remember... George BalanchineRussian-born George Balanchine, was regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world of ballet... Wade J. RobsonWade was a prodigy before he probably knew what the word meant... Alvin AileyAlvin was a dancer and choreographer, and the founding director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, an internationally renowned modern-dance repertory company... Bob FosseBob was born into the theatre as the son of a vaudevillian... |
Jimmy Locust
Tina Landon
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