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JT Horenstein

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JT Horenstein- Creative Director, Producer and Director/ choreographer (currently the exec choreographer for Madison Square Garden’s Knicks City Dancers, dance department for the Metropolitan opera and in production for Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) for over 75 large scale multi million dollar- plus private and corporate events, general sessions and summits, as well as many hit network and cable shows such as Dancing With The Stars (2011- 2013), America’s Best Dance Crew (MTV), NBC’s The Sing Off, The Academy Awards (ABC), MTV Awards, VMAs, ABC’s Breakthrough, Skating with the Stars (ABC), Disney’s Narnia on Ice (ABC), The Winter Olympics Torino and Vancouver (Artistic Director for the US Olympic Figure Skating and Ice Dancing teams), Summer Olympic Gymnastic post tour with Black Eyed Peas, Mad TV(FOX- Movement Director/ Choreographer), NIKE commercials and live telecasts for huge sports and music stars, Political conventions such as Democratic Nat’l Convention, Shrine , LA, Seth McFarland’s Oscars entertainment, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductions, and multi million dollar corporate and private events such as the CES Keynote sessions and opening and closings, (Las Vegas) (Compaq, Samsung and Apple), Nissan Brazil, Hyundai Worldwide, NYC Fashion Week 2013-2017, IBEW international summits (New Orleans, San Francisco, Cleveland and Vancouver), Reebok Int’l Summit with Alicia Keyes, Oracle Open World with Lenny Kravitz, City wide NIKE Marathons, Harry Winston and Couture Diamond World Show, Nat’l Club tour for Camel and Absolute, McDonald’s tour, world tours and/or music videos for Bette Midler, Liza Minelli, Garth Brooks, Brooks and Dunne, My Chemical Romance, Kings of Leon, Fuel, Puddle of Mudd, Sean Lennon,..and many others.

Large scale private and corporate events and general sessions that JT has been both Executive producer and Creative director include UPFRONT Ventures, Peterson Auto Museum in LA,CA. NYC Winter Fashion Week on Ice at The Standard Hotel for Samuelson. Bryant Park, Creative Direction for the Big Xmas tree lighting show starring Dancing with Stars cast, and All A list Olympic Ice Skaters and Johnny Weir as Host and Brand ambassador. Large Scale TV show events in Shanghai, China for Tencent and QQ, and 3 productions for the Met Opera At Lincoln Center, Choreographer of Cleopatra, The New pop Experience at theatre for a new City in NYC East Village. As well as sports entertainment shows for The NYC Knicks, Brooklyn Nets and the Philly 76ers. Direction and choreography for Concert appearances, music videos, arena tours and film: Barbara Streisand, Ricky Martin, Garth Brooks, LL Cool J, Keira Knightley, Carol Burnett, Brooke Shields, Kathy Griffin, Sheryl Crow, and John Fogerty, Nicole Scherzinger, Natasha Bettingfield, Smokey Robinson, Ben Folds, The Groundlings with cast members of Mad TV and Saturday Night Live as well as Jennifer Coolidge, Mindy Sterling, Michael MacDonald and the lovely ladies of “Bridesmaids”.

Choreography for commercial clients include: Reebok, Nike, World Cup, McDonalds, Carl’s Jr. Jack in The Box, Kirin, Pringles, Gatorade, Redbull, Luxe, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Lawry’s, Dr. Pepper, Chrysler, Mercedes and Toyota.

For 3 full seasons, JT served as Creative Director for NIKE West and NIKE Sportswear where he created, wrote and directed a new medium in entertainment: “Sports-Theatre/Live Web Cast”. JT was on dance convention for 15 years with LA Danceforce and was a guest master teacher for 2 summers for the Pulse Intensive and Teachers Workshop in NYC. He teaches dance at Broadway Dance Center and around the country for commercial and professional studios.