Canadian dancer and choreographer
Sean Cheesman is a Canadian dancer and choreographer, best known as a judge and choreographer for television dance competitions such as So You Think You Can Dance, So You Think You Can Dance Canada and Dirty Dancing: The Time of Your Life.[1]
Born and raised in Calgary, Alberta to immigrant parents from Trinidad and Tobago,[1] Cheesman was a figure skater in his youth before turning to dance.[1]
Sean attended J.P. Vanier Jr. High and Crescent Heights High School[2] in Calgary.
He studied dance in New York City at Alvin Ailey's dance school before landing his first job as a dancer in Michael Jackson's "Bad" video.[1] He subsequently appeared in Vanessa Williams' video "The Right Stuff", and began working with her as a choreographer.[1] He has also done choreography for Janet Jackson, Prince, Tina Turner, Whitney Houston, Queen Latifah and Britney Spears, and had a minor acting role in Houston's film The Bodyguard.
Cheesman is a patron of the Urdang Academy.
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- Michael Jackson and Michael Peters (1984)
- David Atkins (1985)
- Prince (1986)
- Paula Abdul (1987)
- Barry Lather (1988)
- Paula Abdul (1989)
- Janet Jackson and Anthony Thomas (1990)
- Jamale Graves (1991)
- Frank Gatson, Travis Payne and LaVelle Smith Jr. (1992)
- Frank Gatson, LaVelle Smith Jr. and Travis Payne (1993)
- Frank Gatson and Randy Connor (1994)
- LaVelle Smith Jr., Tina Landon, Travis Payne and Sean Cheesman (1995)
- Michael Rooney (1996)
- Peggy Hickey (1997)
- Madonna and Jonas Åkerlund (1998)
- Richard Koufey and Michael Rooney (1999)
- Darrin Henson (2000)
- Michael Rooney, Spike Jonze and Christopher Walken (2001)
- Michael Rooney (2002)
- Frank Gatson and LaVelle Smith Jr. (2003)
- Fatima Robinson (2004)
- Kishaya Dudley (2005)
- Shakira (2006)
- Marty Kudelka (2007)
- Michael Rooney (2008)
- Frank Gatson and JaQuel Knight (2009)
- Laurieann Gibson (2010)
- Frank Gatson, Sheryl Murakami and Jeffrey Page (2011)
- Anwar "Flii" Burton (2012)
- Bruno Mars (2013)
- Ryan Heffington (2014)
- OK Go, air:man and Mori Harano (2015)
- Chris Grant, JaQuel Knight and Dana Foglia (2016)
- Teyana Taylor, Guapo, Matthew Pasterisa, Jae Blaze and Derek Watkins (2017)
- Sherrie Silver (2018)
- Charm La'Donna (2019)
- The Lab and Son Sung Deuk (2020)
- Paul Roberts (2021)
- Fullout Cortland (2022)
- Kiel Tutin, Sienna Lalau, Lee Jung and Taryn Cheng (2023)
- Charm La'Donna (2024)
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