Choreographer Mandy Moore talks her collaboration with Deaf West for the NBC musical dramedy ZoeysExtraordinaryPlaylist
Choreographer Mandy Moore — no, not that one — has created some of the most memorable dance scenes in film and TV over the past decade or so. She's responsible's massive freeway number, along with Jimmy Fallon's Golden Globes spoof of it. Her latest endeavor is as executive producer and choreographer of NBC musical dramedy, where she's worked with creator Austin Winsberg from the beginning to shape the visual language of the series.
I met up with Austin and our director, Richard Shepard, and from the beginning we, as a trio, crafted the visual language of, and how dance was going to live in this world was really unique. It wasn't really how it's usually done, I would say, in episodic. I was very fortunate to be on the ground floor with that. I'm on the producing team, and as a choreographer you don't get to do that a lot.
What's different about being able to work as an executive producer on the bigger picture versus just being brought in to facilitate, as you said before?just because of the way that Austin and I work together. But as a producer, you're a part of that team that is in charge of building the world.
He had a contact somehow to the guy who runs Deaf West, DJ [Kurs], and we reached out to him very early in the process to get them involved. [We] wanted someone that was really going to help us be respectful of the language.
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