KEVAN ALLEN
Director : Creative Director : Choreographer.
Kevan Allen’s creative reputation is constantly growing as he continues to conceive, choreograph, style and direct many acclaimed shows for a large number of clients throughout the world. He has made successful ventures into all aspects of the industry from the corporate world to the theatre/music & film industry, always succeeding by bringing his unique and imaginative skills to the relevant project
He made his choreographic & directional debut at the age of 17 with the conception & creation of Beauxartz, the first independent dance company to feature in a ten week television series for Channel 4, UK. Since then he has become one of the most dynamic contributors to choreography today and his extensive body of work can be seen across the board with major recording artists such as Kylie Minogue, Bryan Ferry & Tom Jones, many commercials & corporate events for varied clients such as Nike, Sony, Samsung & Walt Disney and as a much sort after creative director for many live special events and gala’s around the world.
Throughout his career he has had the pleasure of working with Music & Theatre artists such as Elton John, Duran Duran, Josh Groban, Olivia Newton John, Tim Minchin and Idina Menzel, whilst his film work includes “13 going on 30” with Jennifer Garner & Andy Serkis and the Disney animation feature “Chicken Little”.
Kevan’s varied television career has involved work on high profile shows such as Americas Got Talent, So You Think You Can Dance and The Graham Norton Show. Kevan also worked closely with Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber as he searched for a Dorothy on the TV series “Over the Rainbow” for his west End production of The Wizard of OZ - having previously helped Andrew find a Joseph and his Technicolor Dreamcoat on “Any Dream will Do” and a Nancy and an Oliver with “I’d Do Anything” for producer Cameron Mackintosh’s revival of Oliver. Kevan was also the featured choreographer on the British & Russian version of the hit TV Series “Popstars” – leading the winning group in both countries to break records within the music industry and to become triple platinum-selling artists.
Theatre includes Jesus Christ Superstar; The Taming of the Shrew; Chess in Concert; The Winslow Boy; The Wonderful World of Captain Beaky; Titanic; Sondheim Tonight; Urinetown; My One & Only and The Royal Variety Show amongst others.
Hugo Boss chose Kevan to be their featured choreographer & face for their Global Ad Campaign and he has a high profile amongst the media, often being sort after for interviews and contributions for various television shows.
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‘’It is difficult to appreciate the depth of Kevan’s talent…His video certainly shows a huge breadth of work in many and varied styles…’’
Sir Trevor Nunn
Director
“Kevan brought out the best in all of them, enabling non-dancers to move confidently on stage and choreographing superb routines for the more experienced and professional dancers”
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
Composer
‘’His innate musical sense, well honed teaching skills and endless creativity was an extreme asset to the project he and I had the pleasure of working on together. Kevan offered a fresh new approach that I have not seen in quite some time. I would welcome the chance to employ Kevan on theatrical productions, he truly brings with him a unique offering of creativity’’
Sherilyn Draper
Creative Director
The Walt Disney Company
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‘’Thank you, thank you, thank you for all your hard work on ‘Le Show’. You did a great job with the dancers and it was exactly what we wanted for the series. The way you turned a producers whim into a routine was great to witness’’
Jeremy Salsby
Series Producer
Rapido TV
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‘’We couldn’t have hoped for a better choreographer and your cheerful, flexible approach made you a real pleasure to work with. You are a star…’’
Robot Sexton
Show Producer
The Walt Disney Company
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‘’Thank you for creating such a quality piece of work at such breakneck speed. Your soundtrack was beautifully orchestrated. Enthralling, moving…it guided the storyline with such a sure hand. Your costume direction was perfection-threatening yet sensual, start yet avant-garde…Finally; the choreography was simply a total pleasure. I just so enjoy the seamless fluidity with which you effortlessly reveal picture after picture to an audience.’’
Nigel Lloyd-Jones
Managing Director
HP:ICM
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“I just can’t praise you enough and have been effusive about you all morning here at Jack Morton. It was a pleasure to work with you in pre-production but seeing you in action on site was awesome. We all know that we were fitting 4 days of rehearsals into 2 and you stuck to the schedule like clockwork. I just can’t think of any other choreographer or creative director (and I have been in the industry nearly 20 years) who has the same discipline and overall understanding of the needs of the total project. …. Added to that everyone noted your creativity and your willingness to go the extra mile. The Clients are over the moon and it is of course all down to you. All the months of very challenging clients were compensated by the fact that we had struck gold in finding you so thank you very much. It was also a real pleasure to work with such a thoroughly nice person….”
Deanna Panzetta
Executive Producer
Jack Morton Worldwide