Who Is Shaun Evaristo?

Answer 1

Name: Shaun Evaristo

Location North Hollywood

Job: Choreographer/Dancer

Subject: Commercial/TV/Film/Live Concerts

Shaun Evaristo is a Filipino-American professional dancer and choreographer and currently CEO of Movement Lifestyle (a choreography service management company).

Early life

Shaun Evaristo started dancing during his pre-teen years, when he originally formed his first dance crew, Gen2, with his cousins and friends. Inspired by Michael Jackson and N'Sync, he and Gen2 began dancing in his garage, and have constantly choreographed and performed routines together since then. After taking several dance classes through his teenage years, in genres including tap and jazz, Shaun was exposed to his most influential genre and style today, Hip-Hop. Through his teenage years, he kept on creating and structuring dance routines, and put on shows for his high school.

Professional Choreography Work

After moving to North Hollywood, Shaun Evaristo was contacted by YG Entertainment to work for Korean Pop Group Big Bang. It was essentially the gateway to his professional dancing career. He choreographed the routines for Big Bang member Tae Yang's hit Music Videos "Wedding Dress" and "I Need A Girl", as well as a few others. Through YG Entertainment, Shaun caught the attention of other popular Korean Pop artists, G-Dragon and Seven (South Korean singer). This time, through Kanauru Productions, Shaun worked with Se7en to help them structure and choreograph a dance routine to their hit song "Drip", released in 2010.

Shaun had the opportunity to not only work with these popular Korean Pop artists, but he also toured with Omarion in the United States and Canada. He has shot several music videos for international artists, but his first work with an artist from the United States was a music video-type commercial for Sears using High School Musical star, Vanessa Hudgens' song "Arrive".

Dance Workshops

Aside from choreographing for music artists, Shaun also makes his own dance pieces that he teaches at dance workshops for dancers who want to learn his material. His work has been showcased at several dance workshops around the world. Among these workshops lies the Urban Dance Camp in Germany, the world's leading dance intensive education workshop. Every year, UDC brings the world's best choreographers and street dancers to spread their talent to other dancers in a 28-day summer session. Dancers also get to showcase their work to the audience at the Urban Dance Showcase, in which Shaun performed in 2011.

Shaun has also paid a visit to the Broadway Dance Company in Tokyo, Japan. Like UDC, the Broadway Dance Company is a leader in dance education, but in the genre of jazz. It brings in world-class dancers and choreographers who are willing to offer recent styles of dance to Asian students. He and his Movement Lifestyle colleague Lyle Beniga both taught their respective choreographies as guests to the workshop in Japan. (wikipedia source 2012)

Credits:

USA-

Omarion

Vanessa Hudgens

Greyson Chance

NLT

J.Lewis

Travis Garland

Asia-

Big Bang

Tae Yang

G Dragon

2NE1

Se7en

Mike/Golf

Community-

Gen2

The Company

APT