Tony Award Winners
This famous choreographer was nominated for 11 and won 8 Tony awards over their career for best choreography. He was often associated with his unique and fluid movement style.
Bob Fosse
This ballet originally choreographed by Marius Petipa with music by Tchaikovsky, is generally a staple for chamber ballet companies during the holiday season.
The Nutcracker
Dubbed the "King of Pop" this singer and dancer had a very influential hand in all of the choreography for his iconic music videos throughout the 1980's and 1990's.
Michael Jackson
This pop diva began her training at the very young age of three and could often be seen at the Starpower National competition each summer in Myrtle Beach South Carolina. Later she was known for her iconic VMA dance performances.
Britney Spears
Named after its founder, this modern dance technique is based on the opposition between contraction and release and is often considered the first codified modern dance form.
Graham Technique
With SYTYCD alum Sonya Tayeh at the helm, this musical based off of a movie with the same title won the 2020 award for Best Choreography.
Moulin Rouge
This 1938 ballet set to the score by Sergei Prokofiev about one of William Shakespeare's most well know plays about star crossed lovers.
Romeo & Juliet
This choreographer's credits include the music videos for Industry Baby by Lil Nas X, Motivation by Norman & Up by Cardi B. His dynamic movement style have gained him major popularity in the recent years.
Sean Bankhead
This singer started dancing at age 3 in her hometown of New Orleans, before being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She then continued her training in Houston Texas at studio Dancezone where she went on to win many awards in the competition circuit. Talk about that for Motivation.
Normani
This modern dance technique emphasizes a whole body, anatomical approach to dance that includes flexibility, strength, coordination and body and spatial awareness to enable unrestricted, dramatic freedom of expression.
Horton Technique
Andy Blankenbuehler who has been nominated 8 times and has won 3 awards, most recently won two years in a row in 2016 & 2017. His 2016 award was for this musical which continues to dominate the US theater box offices and was also made into a film for Disney Plus.
Hamilton
In this ballet, temple dancer Nikiya loves the warrior Solor, but the High Brahmin desires her. Ludwig Minkus wrote the score for this epic love story, which Marius Petipa originally choreographed.
La Bayadére
This choreographer really began to make their mark on the music and hip hop industry with her choreography for the music video of Justin Bieber's Sorry.
Parri$ Goebel
This 2004 music video "White Houses" featured the singer performing choreography that was quite technical. The singer spent several years training at the School Of American Ballet before leaving to pursue music.
Vanessa Carlton
This technique emphasizes the natural rhythms of fall and recovery and the interplay between weight and weightlessness to provide dancers with an organic approach to movement that easily adapts to a range of choreographic styles.
Limon Technique
Peter Darling won the award for his choreography in this 2009 production based on a film produced in 2000 about a young boy who takes ballet classes in Great Britain
Billy Elliot
Choreographed to the haunting music of Adolphe Adam, this ballet is the story of a peasant girl who finds herself among the ghosts of jilted lovers after she is cast aside by a suitor herself and dies of a broken heart.
Giselle
Together know as NAPPYTABS. This couple Choreographer become popular through some of the most renowned tv shows such as “so you think can dance” or “ Americans best dance crew”.
Tabitha & Napoleon D'umo
The son of a dance teacher, this actor studied ballet his whole life and left Texas to move to New York City to further his training before being cast in the film "Dirty Dancing"
Patrick Swayze
This technique is a technical dance form developed from elements of indigenous African and Afro-Caribbean dances
Dunham Technique
This 2008 first time win for Blankenbuehler was his collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda about a neighborhood in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
In the Heights
Vaslav Nijinsky choreographed this ballet, written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company. Igor Stravinsky wrote the music which was a highly controversial piece.
The Rite of Spring
This choreographer got her start with P.Diddy and the TV Show making the band where she became the choreographer for since disbanded girl group Danity Kane. She later went on to do a lot of the choreographic work for Lady Gaga.
Laurieann Gibson
Known for her roles in Center Stage, and in Guardians of the Galaxy this actress began her career as a ballet dancer in her home country of the Dominican Republic
Zoe Saldana
This technique asks students to improvise their movements based on somatic experience and imagery described by the teacher, which provides a framework that promotes unconventional movement. Mirrors are also not allowed in the studio during class.
Gaga Technique