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Tyce Diorio | |
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 Diorio in 2009 | |
| Born | August 22, 1970 |
Tyce Diorio (born August 22, 1970) [1] is an American 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, Ricky Martin, and Taylor Swift. [2] [3] He won an Emmy Award in 2009 for Outstanding Choreography.[ citation needed ]
Early in his career Tyce Diorio was a finalist in the 1988 Star Search Finals as Keith Diorio. He was named "Mr. Dance of America" and performed in a contemporary take on The Nutcracker called "Nuts-n-Krackers" in Boston, Massachusetts, with dancer Nancy O'Meara, also a former "Miss Dance of America".
Diorio performed as a dancer in the 1995 film Showgirls , and "Robin Hood Men in Tights" listed in the credits as Keith Diorio. Diorio was a contestant on the short-lived talent show Fame in 2003. [4] Diorio also had a cameo audition in Every Little Step (2008), a documentary about the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line . [5]
Diorio was 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 a choreographer and judge over seven seasons of the Fox television show, So You Think You Can Dance .
In 2010, he played himself in the motion picture Move (directed by Kurt E. Soderling and Melinda Songer) along with others including Mia Michaels, Paula Abdul, Wade Robson and Nigel Lythgoe. [6]
Janet Jackson, [7] Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, [7] Mýa, *NSYNC, Kelly Osbourne, Céline Dion and Toni Braxton are some of the artists Diorio has worked with. Diorio has also worked on numerous feature films including Robin Hood: Men in Tights , Showgirls , Starsky & Hutch , 13 Going on 30 , Mr. & 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 , Big Time Rush , Fame , The Oprah Winfrey Show , as well as Annie and Cinderella . [6] His struggle to be cast in the revival of A Chorus Line on Broadway was one of the stories included in the 2008 documentary Every Little Step . [5]
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 has worked privately with Katie Holmes and Maguire. He also choreographed the music videos for Paula Abdul's single Dance Like There's No Tomorrow and Taylor Swift's Shake It Off.
| Season | Week | Dancers | Style | Music |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Week 6 | Melody Lacayanga Nick Lazzarini | Broadway | "All That Jazz" from Chicago |
| Season 2 | Week 1 | Aleksandra Wojda Jason Williams | Contemporary | "Unwritten"—Natasha Bedingfield |
| Martha Nichols Travis Wall | Broadway | "Steam Heat"—The Pointer Sisters | ||
| Week 5 | Allison Holker Ivan Koumaev | Contemporary | "Why"—Annie Lennox | |
| Donyelle Jones Benji Schwimmer | Broadway | "You Can't Stop the Beat" from Hairspray | ||
| Week 6 | Allison Holker Ryan Rankine | "Bye Bye Blackbird"—Liza Minnelli | ||
| Natalie Fotopoulos Benji Schwimmer | Jazz | "Wonderful"—India.Arie | ||
| Week 7 | Natalie Fotopoulos Ryan Rankine | Contemporary | "I Will Get There"—Boyz II Men | |
| Heidi Groskreutz Benji Schwimmer | Broadway | "Fake Your Way to the Top" from Dreamgirls | ||
| Top 8 | Group routine | "Cell Block Tango" from Chicago | ||
| Week 8 | Natalie Fotopoulos Ivan Koumaev | Contemporary | "Everytime We Touch (Yanou's Candlelight Mix)"—Cascada | |
| Donyelle Jones Benji Schwimmer | Broadway | "Le Jazz Hot"—Julie Andrews | ||
| Week 9 | Heidi Groskreutz Donyelle Jones | "Big Spender" from Sweet Charity | ||
| Season 3 | Week 1 | Shauna Noland Jimmy Arguello | "Ease on Down the Road" from The Wiz | |
| Week 2 | Jessi Peralta Pasha Kovalev | Jazz | "Stiff Jazz"—dZihan & Kamien | |
| Lacey Schwimmer Kameron Bink | Broadway | "Overture/All That Jazz" from Chicago | ||
| Week 3 | Top 16 | Group routine | "The Lioness Hunt" from The Lion King | |
| Week 4 | Anya Garnis Danny Tidwell | Contemporary | "Apologize"—OneRepublic | |
| Week 5 | Jaimie Goodwin Hokuto Konishi | Broadway | "Mr. Bojangles" from Fosse | |
| Week 6 | Sabra Johnson Kameron Bink | Contemporary | "Amazing Grace"—Crystal Lewis | |
| Week 7 | Sabra Johnson Pasha Kovalev | Broadway | "A Wild Wild Party" from The Wild Party | |
| Week 9 | Top 4 | "Mein Herr"—Liza Minnelli | ||
| Season 4 | Week 1 | Kherington Payne Stephen "Twitch" Boss | "Too Darn Hot" from Kiss Me, Kate | |
| Week 2 | Katee Shean Joshua Allen | "All for the Best" from Godspell | ||
| Week 3 | Comfort Fedoke Chris Jarosz | Jazz | "The Beautiful People"—Marilyn Manson | |
| Week 4 | Top 14 | Group routine | "Money Money" from Cabaret | |
| Week 5 | Chelsie Hightower Mark Kanemura | Broadway | "I'm a Woman" from Smokey Joe's Cafe | |
| Jessica King William Wingfield | Contemporary | "Silence" from Unfaithful | ||
| Week 6 | Kherington Payne Mark Kanemura | Jazz | "Canned Heat"—Jamiroquai | |
| Katee Shean William Wingfield | Broadway | "Sit Down, You're Rockin' the Boat" from Guys and Dolls | ||
| Week 7 | Katee Shean Stephen "Twitch" Boss | "Sweet Georgia Brown" from Bubbling Brown Sugar | ||
| Week 8 | Katee Shean Joshua Allen | Contemporary | "All by Myself"—Celine Dion | |
| Week 9 | Courtney Galiano Katee Shean | Broadway | "The Trolley Song"—Rufus Wainwright | |
| Season 5 | Week 1 | Asuka Kondoh Vitolio Jeune | "Hot Honey Rag" from Chicago | |
| Randi Evans Evan Kasprzak | Jazz | "I Only Have Eyes for You"—Jamie Cullum | ||
| Week 3 | Jeanine Mason Phillip Chbeeb | Broadway | "Moses Supposes" from Singin' in the Rain | |
| Week 6 | Melissa Sandvig Brandon Bryant | "Aquarius" from Hair | ||
| Week 7 | Melissa Sandvig Ade Obayomi | Contemporary | "This Woman's Work"—Maxwell | |
| Kayla Radomski Jason Glover | Broadway | "Mr. Monotony"—Kim Criswell | ||
| Week 8 | Melissa Sandvig Evan Kasprzak | "Get Me To The Church On Time" - Matt Dusk | ||
| Week 9 | Kayla Radomski Brandon Bryant | "Bye Bye Love" from All That Jazz | ||
| Season 6 | Week 1 | Ashleigh Di Lello Jakob Karr | "Hit Me With a Hot Note (And Watch Me Bounce)" from Sophisticated Ladies |
Dioro has choreographed for the Lifetime TV show, Drop Dead Diva , which featured Paula Abdul and some of SYTYCD past finalists including Mollee Gray(S6), William Wingfield(S4) & Joy Spears(S2).
He was also special guest choreographer in So You Think You Can Dance (Poland) (season 6) and So You Think You Can Dance (Ukraine) (season 4). He helped the judges to pick the top 14 dancers in both shows.
He is also featured as the choreographer in the Taylor Swift video Shake it Off , along another SYTYCD alumni Fik-Shun.
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