Mandy Moore Choreographer : From Childhood to Sports and La La Land + Photos and Biography

Mandy Moore Choreographer: Samantha Jo “Mandy” Moore (born March 28, 1976) is an American choreographer, dancer, producer, and dance instructor. She is known for her work on the United States reality television series So You Think You Can Dance, having appeared on the show every year since the third season, and Dancing with the Stars.

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Mandy Moore Choreographer:

She choreographed the 2016 film La La Land and has also worked on commercials and various musical productions such as Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour. She has created dance numbers for the Academy Awards, Golden Globe Awards, Emmy Awards, and Grammy Awards ceremonies.

She has been nominated seven times for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography, winning in 2017 for her work on Dancing with the Stars, in 2018 for her work on So You Think You Can Dance, and in 2020 for Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

The La La Land Golden Globe award winners repeatedly thanked their film’s choreographer.

Early life and education

Mandy Moore Choreographer: Entrance to the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp
Samantha Jo Moore was born on March 28, 1976, in St. Louis, Missouri, and grew up in Summit County, Colorado. Her parents are Bob and Wendy Moore, and she has one sister. She enjoyed dancing from a very young age. A public school student, she studied at the Summit School of Dance in Breckenridge under the school’s founder, Kim Delgrosso, from age 7 to 18. She also attended the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School & Camp in Steamboat Springs for three summers. While attending Summit High School, she attended the Shelly True Dance Academy in Denver several times a week. She also participated in high school basketball, track, and gymnastics.

Moore moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school in 1994 to pursue a career in dance. She attended the EDGE Performing Arts Center in Los Angeles on a scholarship from the Summit Foundation.

Film

Mandy Moore Choreographer: Moore has choreographed dance numbers for several David O. Russell films, starting with Silver Linings Playbook (2012)—for which she trained actors Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence to perform a mashup of different dance styles—American Hustle (2013), and Joy (2015); she also did choreography for Leslye Headland’s Sleeping With Other People (2015).

Her most notable work to date is the 2016 film La La Land, for which she choreographed all the dance numbers, both large-scale and small-scale. To choreograph the opening number, “Another Day of Sun”, which took place in a traffic jam on a Los Angeles freeway ramp, Moore blocked out the action on paper and then began staging the moves using a group of ten dancers in a studio parking lot.

The final scene involved 30 dancers, 100 extras, and 60 cars. Moore trained the lead actors, Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, both dance novices, over a period of six to eight weeks. She emphasized emotion rather than technique, as Stone recalled:

“[Moore] tried to impart to us that, as much as we need to be technical and think of all of our steps, it’s going to be about our faces. We need to see the joy and connection. We need to look at each other and smile at each other. We need to keep acting”.

Professional dancing

Mandy Moore Choreographer: Moore has danced on film in A Time for Dancing (2002), Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), and Did You Hear About the Morgans? (2008), and in the television sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.

Teaching

Mandy Moore Choreographer: Moore teaches at the EDGE Performing Arts Center and is a faculty member of JUMP weekend dance conventions for children. She also teaches in private studios and has led dance workshops in Italy (Mediterraneo Dance Festival), Australia, and Korea.

She is a member of the Board of Governors of the Television Academy, and as of 2017 heads that body’s Choreographers Peer Group.

Dance styles

Mandy Moore Choreographer: Moore is proficient in choreographing many different types of dance, including contemporary, jazz, ballroom, tap, and folk. She is known for training dancers on all levels and of all ages.

Awards and honors

Mandy Moore Choreographer: Since 2008, Moore has been nominated seven times for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Choreography. She won in 2017 for her work on season 23 of Dancing with the Stars (“On Top of the World” and “Carol of the Bells”),[5][6] and in 2018 for her work on So You Think You Can Dance (“Brand New” and “To Make You Feel My Love”).[21] In 2020, Moore received a juried Emmy Award for the first season of Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist.

Personal life

Mandy Moore Choreographer: To avoid being confused with the better-known singer Mandy Moore, Moore registered with the Screen Actors Guild under the name Mandy Jo Moore. Still, the two are often confused, and with tongue in cheek, Moore named her corporation “Nope Not Her”. She also uses the handle @nopenother on social media.