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Tyce Diorio Wins Emmy® for Choreography: the 2nd Emmy This Year for So You Think You Can Dance
Congratulations Tyce Diorio on winning the Outstanding Choreography Emmy® award at the 2009 Creative Arts Primetime Emmy Awards. This is the first Emmy® win for the choreographer and the fifth win for So You Think You Can Dance. Tyce received the award for choreographing the “Adam and Eve / Silence” contemporary piece danced by William Wingfield and Jessica King during Season 4. Judge Mary Murphy called the dance “one of the most amazing pieces I’ve ever seen on the show.” Will and Jessica returned to So You Think You Can Dance’s fifth season to perform the Emmy® nominated number on a results show.
Tyce joins So You Think You Can Dance costume designer Soyon An as the 2009 Emmy® Award recipients for the show. Read more about Soyon’s win, which was announced separately.
SYTYCD earned five nominations for the 2009 Primetime Emmy® Awards:
Outstanding Choreography:
“Bleeding Love” – Tabitha & Napoleon D’umo
“Mercy” – Mia Michaels
“Adam and Eve / Silence” – Tyce Diorio
“ A Los Amigos” – Dmitry ChaplinOutstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic):
Episode #421/422A
Amy Elizabeth Strozzi, Department Head Makeup Artist
Heather Cummings, Key Makeup Artist
Tifanie White, Additional Makeup Artist
Marie DelPrete, Additional Makeup ArtistThis was the most nominations the show received in one year. Here are the stats:
2009 – 5 nominations, 2 wins
2008 – 4 nominations, 1 win
2007 – 2 nominations, 2 winsTotal: 11 nominations, 5 wins
Tyce Diorio has been performing on television since age 17 when he won “Star Search,” setting a record with a perfect 4-star rating each week, the first time it had happened on the series. Originally from Brooklyn, NY, Diorio attended New York City’s famed High School of the Performing Arts and following that moved to Los Angeles to work with Paula Abdul to dance on her “Under My Spell” world tour, as well as in her videos, commercials and award show appearances.
Janet Jackson, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Mya, *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 worked on numerous feature films including “Showgirls,” “Starsky and Hutch,” “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” “Robin Hood: Men in Tights,” “13 Going on 30,” “Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas” 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” as well as “Annie” and “Cinderella” directed by Rob Marshall. Diorio also had the great privilege of starring in the Tony Award winning Broadway hit “Fosse” and “Chicago.” Most recently Tyce was a featured performer in Sony pictures’ “Every Little Step.”
Diorio has choreographed routines for Paulina Rubio and Tobey Maguire; commercials for iPod, Mc Donald’s, Sylvania and Road Runner DSL; and a musical entitled “Just Another Man.” Diorio works privately with Katie Holmes and Tobey Maguire, and also choreographed the music video for Paula Abdul’s single “Dance Like There’s No Tomorrow.”
Diorio lives in Los Angeles, CA.
Congratulations, Tyce Diorio!
Read more about Soyon An’s win.
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Costume Designer Soyon An Wins a Juried Primetime Emmy® Award
So You Think You Can Dance’s costume designer, Soyon An, won a Juried Primetime Emmy® Award for her work on So You Think You Can Dance Season 4. The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the Primetime Emmy Award winners in Outstanding Costumes For A Variety/Music Program Or Special on August 24. The award was granted for Episode #415/416A of So You Think You Can Dance. The award will be presented at the 2009 Creative Arts Awards on September 12 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. We caught up with Emmy® winner Soyon to find out more about some of her most memorable designs.
We asked Soyon which costume from the winning episode was her favorite, and what was the inspiration behind the look. Soyon told us, “It was the black and white Cirque costumes for Mia Michaels’ group piece. My inspiration for it was my childhood. I stepped into a swirl of shapes and patterns. If you look at the patterns I used, it was crossword puzzles, hypnotic swirls, stars, and your circles and stripes from clowns.”
During Season 5, Soyon showed her ingenuity through a wide variety of creations. When asked which costume she was most proud of, Soyon said, “I was particularly proud of designing the cha cha outfit for Karla in the beginning of the season. She danced to Lady Gaga and I only had 2 days to make the dress from scratch as well as the other 37 outfits. Rhinestoning that puppy was not easy.”
Karla’s dress wasn’t the only difficult costume Soyon whipped up. “The most difficult to make was for Mia Michaels’ Top 2 girls routine where [Kayla and Jeanine] shed layers. Mia and I came up with [the idea] together and the inspiration for that was my pin cushion. The layers on the skirts were ripping when the girls were tearing away the layers. The velcro was not strong enough, then too strong, so there were multiple trials and errors (without much time) and on top of it, I had to be careful that they didn’t look too naked at the end of the dance when everything was torn away.”
For each episode of So You Think You Can Dance, Soyon has to design for all different styles of dance, from Bollywood to Russian folk to Latin ballroom. We asked her if certain dance styles are harder to design for than others, and Soyon said, “Yes and no. All the styles of dance have their moments. Sometimes it’s ballroom, sometimes it’s Broadway. It really depends on the story and the movement. I cross my fingers that all the styles of dance don’t have something challenging for me at once.”
With Season 6 just around the corner, does Soyon already have ideas for costumes? “Not for a specific piece or dance style, but I can tell you, I have a few exciting ideas up my sleeve,” Soyon admitted. “We’ll see if those ideas will work once the choreographers start coming to me with the story for their pieces.”
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5 Emmy Nominations to So You Think You Can Dance
So You Think You Can Dance has received five 2009 Primetime Emmy® Awards nominations. This includes four nominations for Outstanding Choreography and one nomination for Outstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic). This brings a total of eleven nominations over the past three years.
Outstanding Choreography:
So You Think You Can Dance • Bleeding Love • FOX • Dick Clark Productions and 19 Entertainment
Tabitha D’umo, Choreographer
Napoleon D’umo, ChoreographerSo You Think You Can Dance • Mercy • FOX • Dick Clark Productions and 19 Entertainment
Mia Michaels, ChoreographerSo You Think You Can Dance • Adam and Eve / Silence • FOX • Dick Clark Productions and 19 Entertainment
Tyce Diorio, ChoreographerSo You Think You Can Dance • A Los Amigos • FOX • Dick Clark Productions and 19 Entertainment
Dmitry Chaplin, ChoreographerOutstanding Makeup For A Multi-Camera Series Or Special (Non-Prosthetic):
So You Think You Can Dance • Episode #421/422A • FOX • Dick Clark Productions and 19 Entertainment
Amy Elizabeth Strozzi, Department Head Makeup Artist
Heather Cummings, Key Makeup Artist
Tifanie White, Additional Makeup Artist
Marie DelPrete, Additional Makeup ArtistThis is the most nominations the show has received in one year. Here are the stats:
So You Think You Can Dance
2009 – 5 nominations
2008 – 4 nominations, 1 win
2007 – 2 nominations, 2 winsTotal: 11 nominations, 3 wins
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