Brian Friedman is a hugely successful artistic director for concert tours, music videos, commercials, and film. Friedman has choreographed some of the most popular and groundbreaking music videos and performances such as Britney Spears “Toxic” and “Slave 4 U”, “My Love Is Like Wo” by Mya, “The One” by PRINCE, NSYNCs “Dirty Pop”, and many more for such artist as Beyonce, Usher, Pink, Ne-Yo, Brittany Murphy, Hilary Duff, and Christina Milian. As a dancer, his silver screen credits include both “Charlie’s Angels” and “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle”, “You Got Served”, “She’s All that”, “Austin Powers Gold Member”, “Uptown Girls”, and more. Friedman has also choreographed for countless television shows including Will & Grace, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, David Letterman, The Ellen Show, Oprah, That 70’s Show, MTV VMA’s, VH1 DIVAS LIVE, and Billboard Music Awards. Friedman’s dance training began at 11 in his hometown of Scottsdale, Arizona, he soon starred in “Newsies”, and “Kids Incorporated”, and owned his own dance studio before he was 16. As a young dancer, Friedman worked with such artists as Michael Jackson, Paula Abdul, Celine Dion, Melissa Etheridge, Salt N Pepa, and Patti LaBelle. Friedman has been nominated for 4 MTV Video Music Awards, 2 Music Video Production Awards and 5 American Choreography Awards. This young innovator created “FREESTYLE”, an interactive instructional dance DVD teaching audiences original choreography from the moves that made him famous. He also tours around the world mentoring thousands of students and teaching his own dance technique. Friedman entered millions of homes as a judge and choreographer of the FOX hit show “So You Think You Can Dance?” After 2 seasons of SYTYCD he was exported overseas to London to star in Simon Cowell’s hit UK show, “Grease Is the Word”. Following Grease was London’s “The X Factor”. Cowell created a brand new on camera position just for Brian as Creative Director. He directs all aspects of the 12 acts. Brian recently finished his judging duties on MTV’s Top Pop Group and Directed/Choreographed/Danced on Dancing with the Stars. This young trendsetter premiered his new shoe, The BFree Elite by Frontline. This is the first shoe in his line, available in Capezio stores and online. More shoes and his clothing line will be coming soon. Friedman resides in Los Angeles and London with 2 dogs, and 2 parrots.
