Rich + Tone
Rich + Tone
Choreography
Rich + Tone Talauega (Choreographer/Fight Choreographers) Rich + Tone Talauega’s talents encompass wide-ranging success as music video directors, creative directors, musicians, producers, and performers who are at the forefront of today’s pop culture movement. As teenagers, Rich + Tone were discovered by Michael Jackson’s choreographer while free-styling at a club in Oakland, CA. Within a year, Rich + Tone were on their way to becoming legendary dancers and choreographers, having toured with both Diana Ross and Michael Jackson within months of moving to Los Angeles. Rich + Tone are the 2022 Outer Critics Circle Awards winner and Drama Desk Awards nominee for Outstanding Choreography for Broadway’s MJ The Musical. Their projects include work for Bacardi, Tiffany, iPod, Coca-Cola, X-Box, Pepsi, Gap, Mitsubishi, Old Navy, Kia, as well as the feature films Ferdinand, Step Up 3D, Battle of the Year: The Dream Team, Street Dance 2, and Save The Last Dance. They served as Artistic Directors and Choreographers for what was “the biggest performance ever created for ‘Dancing with the Stars’” – a piece celebrating Macy’s 150th Anniversary, “Dancing through the Decades” – the 1930s, 1960s, 1980s, and the future. Rich + Tone choreographed multiple numbers in Michael Jackson: The Immortal World Tour and Cirque du Soleil’s Michael Jackson ONE in Las Vegas. In 2019 Rich & Tone directed the Backstreet Boys DNA World tour. Upcoming projects include Apple TV+’s “Lady in the Lake” starring Natalie Portman. Rich + Tone creative directed Madonna’s MDNA Tour, the highest grossing tour of 2012, and her Super Bowl XLVI Half Time Show performance, the second most-watched live televised event in US history. They were also the associate directors and choreographers of Miley Cyrus’s 2014 Bangerz Tour. Rich + Tone have been nominated for numerous MTV Video Music Awards and received an Emmy nomination for their work on the 2005 NAACP Image Awards.
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