Tyce Diorio
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Keith "Tyce" Diorio (born August 22, 1970 in Brooklyn, New York) is a dancer and choreographer. He is best known for his work as a choreographer and guest judge on the FOX television series So You Think You Can Dance. He has choreographed and performed with Janet Jackson, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin.[1][2] He won an Emmy Award in 2009 for Outstanding Choreography. He also had a lead role in the Broadway play Fosse.
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[edit] Career
Diorio was a contestant on the short-lived talent show Fame in 2003.[3]
Diorio is a featured judge on the TLC competition program, Master of Dance, which aired its first six-episode season during the summer of 2008 (credited as Keith Diorio). He has also appeared as himself in various episodes over five seasons of the Fox smash hit, So You Think You Can Dance.
He will soon be seen on the big screen in the new motion picture Move, directed by Kurt E. Soderling and Melinda Songer. Coming on in 2010, he plays himself in the film along with others like Mia Michaels, Paula Abdul, Wade Robson and Nigel Lythgoe.[4]
Janet Jackson,[5] Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez,[5] Mýa, *NSYNC, Kelly Osbourne, Céline Dion and Toni Braxton are just a few of the artists Diorio has traveled the world with and performed with onstage. Diorio has also worked on numerous feature films including Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Showgirls, Starsky and Hutch, 13 Going on 30, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and Epic Movie. In addition to So You Think You Can Dance, his television credits include That '70s Show, The Tyra Banks Show, The Academy Awards, The American Music Awards, The Billboard Music Awards, Fame, The Oprah Winfrey Show, as well as Annie and Cinderella.[4] Diorio was also in Chicago and Fosse.[6]
Diorio has choreographed routines for Paulina Rubio and Tobey Maguire; commercials for iPod, McDonald's, Sylvania and Road Runner DSL; and a musical entitled Just Another Man. Diorio works privately with Katie Holmes and Tobey Maguire. He also choreographed the music video for Paula Abdul's single Dance Like There's No Tomorrow.[6] His efforts to be selected for a role in the 2006 Broadway revivial of A Chorus Line are part of the 2008 documentary Every Little Step.[4]
When he was younger, he was named "Mr. Dance of America" and performed in a contemporary take on "The Nutcracker" called "Nuts-n-Krackers" in Boston, Mass., with dancer Nancy O'Meara, also a former "Miss Dance of America"
[edit] Choreography for So You Think You Can Dance
- Favorite routines:
- Season 1:
- Melody and Nick's Chicago "All That Jazz" broadway routine ended up as Melody Lacayanga (runner-up)'s favourite routine she performed of the season.
- Season 2:
- Donyelle and Benji's broadway routine to "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray was chosen to be Donyelle Jones (3rd place)'s favourite routine she performed of the season.
- Allison and Ivan's contemporary routine to Annie Lennox's "Why" was contemporary choreographer Mia Michaels' favourite routine of the season.
- Martha and Travis' broadway routine to "Steam Heat" by The Pointer Sisters ended up as jazz choreographer Brian Friedman's favourite routine of the season.
- Season 5:
- Melissa and Ade's contemporary routine to Maxwell's "This Woman's Work" Mia Michaels' favorite routine of the season.
- Season 1:
- Top 15 routines season 1-5 choreographies by Tyce Diorio:
- Season 1:
- Melody and Nick's Chicago "All That Jazz" broadway routine
- Season 2:
- Allison and Ivan's contemporary routine to Annie Lennox's "Why"
- Season 5:
- Melissa and Ade's contemporary routine to "This Woman's Work" by Maxwell was chosen to be Nigel Lythgoe's favourite routine from all seasons 1-5
- Season 1:
[edit] References
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Tyce Keith Diorio". Broadway Dance Center. http://www.bwydance.com/faculty/bios/diorio_tyce_keith.shtml. Retrieved 2008-03-09.
- ^ N.A.., July 21, 2003, "Racquet-wielding neighbors & mud wrestling in 'Paradise'". USA Today
- ^ a b c IMDb website
- ^ a b No byline, (January 2007), "Our 10th Anniversary". Dance Spirit. 11 (1):34
- ^ a b http://www.fox.com/dance/bios.htm
[edit] External links
- Tyce Diorio profile at RealityBug.com
- Tyce Diorio profile at the Internet Movie Database
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