- Barry Lather
Barry Lather (born
August 16 ,1966 inAlbany, New York ) is an AmericanChoreographer , Actor and Musician.Biography
Barry Lather grew up in Atlanta, Georgia with his brother Thomas and was raised in a dancing family. His mother, Joan, was a dance instructor and father, George, had his own dancewear business. Barry moved to Los Angeles after high school, and got his start in the entertainment industry dancing in the 3-D film "Captain EO" featuring Michael Jackson directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1985. Barry danced in Janet Jackson's music videos "Nasty Boys" & "When I Think of You" in 1986, both choreographed by Paula Abdul. Shortly after those videos, Lather was given the opportunity to choreograph for Janet Jackson, winning an MTV Award & Billboard Award for best choreography in a video for Janet Jackson's The Pleasure Principle in 1987. The following year, Lather won a second Billboard Award for choreography in Sting's video "We'll Be Together". He went on to choreograph multiple videos & tv performances for Michael Jackson, Prince, Paula Abdul, Sting, George Michael, Sheena Easton, Sheryl Crow, Bryan Adams, a short film for Michael Jackson "Ghost" in 1996, and several television shows such as The Drew Carey Show. He has received two American Choreography Awards/ "Bob Fosse Awards" for his choreograhphic work also. Barry has choreographed the Supberbowl Halftime Special in 1998, the prestigious Academy Awards, Grammy Awards, MTV Awards, Billboard Awards, BET Awards and American Music Awards shows. Choreographic film credits include, Robin Williams and Edward Norton in "Death to Smoochy" directed by Danny DeVito and spectacular production numbers in "Blues Brother 2000" directed by the legendary John Landis. Lather received an Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Choreography for the Miss America Pageant in 2000, featuring Donny Osmond.Barry also recorded an album as a solo artist with the label Atlantic/Wea in 1990, his debut album was titled "Turn Me Loose".
The past 10 years, Lather has transformed his career from choreographer to director, creatively directing world tours & live television performances for Usher, P.Diddy, Mariah Carey, Ciara, Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna, Sean Kingston, Ashlee Simpson, Pharrell & Gwen Stefani, Seal as well as creative consultant on Britney Spear's "Dream within a Dream" world tour. Barry artistic directed Usher's Showtime special "One Night, One Star" live from Puerto Rico & Usher's epic world tour "The Truth Tour"....as well as, Usher and James Brown's show stopping performance on the 2005 Grammy Awards. In 2006, Barry directed Mariah Carey's tour "The Adventures of Mimi", which was a big part of her highly successful comeback resurgence! Barry just completed directing hot pop artist Rihanna's European tour which just kicked off its opening night in Paris, Nov. 2007 and the Live "Dancing with the Stars" Tour.
Barry has also choreographed several extravagant ice show productions that have toured the globe...working with Olympic gold medalists Kristi Yamaguchi, Brian Boitano, Katrina Witt, & Scott Hamilton.
Fall of 2008, Barry directed and choreographed the iconic Donny and Marie Osmond's Las Vegas Show featured at the Flamingo Hotel.
References
1. [http://tv.yahoo.com/contributor/620911/credits;_ylt=AsteFBgW.ksbphusm5QEEl2.o9EF Barry Lather] . "Yahoo.com." Retrieved on 2007-03-30.
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0490142/ Barry Lather on imdb.com]
* [http://tv.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=38760 Barry Lather on MSN]
* [http://tv.yahoo.com/barry-lather/contributor/620911 Barry Lather at YahooTV]
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