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Dance Mogul Magazine Exclusive…\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h1>\n
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\"\"<\/a>Dance Mogul:<\/strong> What inspired you to start dancing?
\nDavid Moore:\u00a0<\/strong>I grew up in the boy band era of Nsync and Backstreet. Their elaborate music videos and Awards show performances with like 30 dancers first caught my eye. But the funny thing was I wasn’t so much interested in the boy band itself but more I wanted to know who made up their dances and taught them. I later found out about Wade Robson and started avidly following his career and learning anything he choreographed off of my TV and DVDs.
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\nDance Mogul:<\/strong> Did your family and friends support you?
\nDavid Moore: <\/strong>In Orlando where I grew up, at the time dance wasn’t a huge part of television and entertainment like it is now. So my friends didn’t really understand. My parents definitely wanted me to stay in Orlando and finish college when I told them I wanted to move to LA their initial reaction wasn’t too excited. Actually took a couple of years for them to really accept and support my chosen career path. Now they are 100% behind me.
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\nDance Mogul:<\/strong> What was your first big opportunity?
\nDavid Moore:<\/strong> Since I was such a huge Wade Robson fan I saw he was having auditions in Atlanta (close to Orlando) for a dance TV show on MTV called the Wade Robson Project. I jumped in the car with a couple of friends and drove to Atlanta. Auditioned for the show and made it on. They flew me to Los Angeles for the tapings. I ended up getting to the finale show where I placed 4th out of 1,000’s of dancers that auditioned. Not to mention working with and becoming friends with Wade, who I had idolized, throughout the process of shooting the show.
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\nDance Mogul:<\/strong> What made you different from other dancers?
\nDavid Moore:<\/strong> I think because I never really trained in dance before I started. I almost accidentally had my own unique style only because I had never taken the class. So a lot of what I was doing was just a mixture of what I had seen on TV and what created in my own head. I have always been a huge fan of the creation process, which I think is why I was drawn to choreography so quickly.
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\nDance Mogul:<\/strong> Do you feel anything you were doing inspired things you see now in the dance community?
\nDavid Moore: <\/strong>In late 2009, I released a video trilogy that I choreographed and directed with my friend Bryan Tanaka called the Hook vs Bridge Trilogy. It was a 3 episode concept dance video that took us almost 2 months to put together. At the time there were really no dance concept videos on youtube. Soon after this release, many videos started being released in which choreographers had a concept and wanted to tell a story with video alongside the dancing. Concept videos on Youtube are just crazy now! Ive loved watching it evolve.<\/p>\n

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