8th Annual World Choreography Awards to Be HeldToday

The 8th Annual World Choreography Awards (WCA) will be held on October 23 at The Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. The Choreography Awards, produced and directed by Allen Walls and Cheryl Baxter-Ratliff, are a global awards show celebrating and honoring the best in media choreography. The WCA recognizes choreographic achievement in 8 categories: Motion Picture, Music Video, Commercials, Television Episodic, Television Award Show/Specials, Digital Content, Digital Content Independent and Television Reality Show/Competition.

Actor/dancer Kenny Wormald returns to host the show which will feature breathtaking performances by the world's top choreographers and dancers: 2018 World of Dance winners "The Lab" and runner-up S-Rank; Jade Hale-Christofi, choreographer of "Take Me to Church" with Sergei Polunin, will be premiering his new work featuring Kyle Allen; Debbie Allen Dance Academy and USC Glorya Kaufman School of Dance, featuring the work of choreographer Sonya Tayeh; Emmy award-winning choreographer Tessandra Chavez, will recreate the dance she created for Blake McGrath, nominated Music Video and with Blake performing; and Alex Chung, featuring some of today's top Instagram dance influencers. The Joe Tremaine Legacy Award, honoring dance-makers that changed the face of dance, will go to Debbie Allen.

Confirmed Celebrity Attendees Debbie Allen, Harry Shum Jr, Jojo Siwa, Kenny Ortega, Tessandra Chavez, Brian Freedman, Blake McGrath, Mandy Moore, Jojo Gomez, Glorya Kaufman, Anita Mann, Daniel "Cloud" Campos, Christopher Scott, and Robin Antin.

Sponsors: Joe Tremaine Conventions & Competitions, Anita Mann Productions, Go 2 Talent Agency, BLOC Talent Agency, The Movement Talent Agency, Clear Talent Group, McDonald/Selznick Associates, Edge Performing Arts Center, Noho Arts District, and The Performing Arts Center.

The Film world has "The Oscar", the Television world has "The Emmy", the Stage world has the "The Tony", and now the Dance world has," The Choreo". The WCA brings the best and brightest stars of dance together for one glorious night...as we salute the future, celebrate the present and honor the past - WorldChoreographyAwards.com