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As the choreographer of Legendary, Tanisha Scott’s job is to ensure every house’s moves look polished and ready to wow the judges. With only three days of prep with a house before the ball begins, she needs to make sure they are ready and up to the task. Legendary is an HBO reality competition where ten houses from…

As the choreographer of RuPaul's Drag Race, Miguel Zarate's goal is to ensure that every Queen stands out and hits their mark. "I always tell the girls, 'if you look like trash, I look even worse,'" he says. "It's my job to make them look amazing." Iconic drag artist and host RuPaul searches for "America's next drag…

As choreographer of the NBC series Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, Mandy Moore knows how important dancing is to the story. In the series, Zoey (Jane Levy) discovers she has the power to hear people's thoughts through "heart songs," which often take the form of large group musical numbers. One example is "Let's Get…

Not even Santa Claus or gusty winds could compete. The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade yesterday drew the kind of post-parade buzz usually reserved for balloon blunders or temperature woes. This year, Broadway stole the show, with the parade’s first-ever same-sex kiss capping a performance from The Prom, the charming…

Tony Award-winning choreographer Justin Peck has joined the production team of Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story film. Peck, the resident choreographer and soloist dancer with the New York City Ballet, won a Tony this year for his choreography of Carousel, the Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway revival directed by Jack O…

An equipment malfunction at a Cirque du Soleil performance last night in Washington state stopped the show and caused the rest of the program to be cancelled. The show in the Seattle suburb of Redmond, Washington ended when a hydraulic system hose broke. Audience members were showered with what the company claimed was…

A relative newcomer to the small screen known for his portrayal of Terry Silver in Power, Broadway veteran Brandon Victor Dixon made a huge splash this season, earning his first Emmy nomination for his portrayal of Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. Signaling the prospect of a major crossover career for…

Alan Johnson, a three-time Emmy Award winning choreographer whose work spanned Broadway and Hollywood – and included four scenes from Mel Brooks’ comedies that became instant, irreverent classics – died July 7 of Parkinson’s disease at his home in Los Angeles. He was 81. His death was confirmed to news outlets by his…

Gillian Lynne, the choreographer for Cats and The Phantom of the Opera who died Sunday in London at age 92, was remembered today by Andrew Lloyd Webber as a major figure in dance and a key in the the phenomenal global success the musical based on T.S. Eliot’s Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. “Quite simply Gillian…

EXCLUSIVE: Keshet International is limbering up to bring Masters Of Dance to Mipcom next month as its flagship format offering. The original Israeli series is produced by Tedy Productions for Keshet Broadcasting and launched locally this summer, dominating ratings with an average 35.7 share. The dance genre remains…

A fan of Hairspray in all its myriad adaptations over the years, on stage and on screen, Hairspray Live! costume designer Mary Vogt faced new challenges when called upon to give her one take on the beloved property. With the intense and very involved choreography on display in NBC’s latest live theater production—from…

The opportunity to collaborate with Oscar-nominated director Baz Luhrmann would be enough in itself for many artists to sign on to a project without so much as reading a script, but for The Get Down choreographers, and brothers, Rich and Tone Talauega, there was also a profound opportunity embedded in the Netflix…