Travis Wall (Courtesy Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Travis Michael Wall (born September 16, 1987) is an American dancer and dance instructor, specializing in contemporary dance and jazz dance. He is best known for his 2006 appearance as a competitor on the second season of the television show So You Think You Can Dance, which airs on the Fox Network. As of 2012, he is currently a choreographer for the show. In 2011, he was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the show's seventh season. In 2012, he starred in the reality show All The Right Moves on Oxygen, where he, Teddy Forance, Nick Lazzarini and Kyle Robinson attempt to launch their own dance company called Shaping Sound.

Early life

Wall was born in and grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia. His mother, owner and operator of the eponymous Denise Wall's Dance Energy, recalls putting him in a walker and watching him imitate the dancers.  He began dancing at the age of three, training at his mother's studio, and competing in a number of conventions.

Career

Early career and training

His professional career officially started at the age of nine when he appeared in a Dr. Pepper commercial. In 1999, he won the Junior National Outstanding Dancer Scholarship Award. On April 27, 2000, at age 12, he started a two-year run in The Music Man on Broadway, playing a resident of River City/Winthrop Paroo understudy. This gig led to him being chosen to perform at the 2000 New York City Dance Alliance's closing night gala. In 2006, New York City Dance Alliance awarded Wall its Teen Outstanding Dancer of the Year award and he toured with them for a year.

So You Think You Can Dance

In 2006, at the age of 18, Wall competed on the second season of the show So You Think You Can Dance (SYTYCD), making it to the final four contestants and coming in second place to overall winner Benji Schwimmer. Wall was praised by the judges as the most technically talented dancer in the competition. Nigel Lythgoe and Adam Shankman have listed Wall, his brother Danny Tidwell, Season 4's Will Wingfield and Season 5's Kayla Radomski as the most talented dancers on the show, later adding Season 6's Billy Bell and Jakob Karr to that list.

While on the show, Wall danced in Mia Michaels "The Bench" routine for which she later won an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography. During the Fall of 2006, Wall toured the United States with the top 10 dancers from the So You Think You Can Dance competition. He returned to the show in 2008 during the Season 4 auditions to teach choreography. He did a surprise audition on the 4th episode as "Danielle Chorizo".

On July 23, 2009, Wall returned to So You Think You Can Dance along with fellow Season 2 contestant Heidi Groskreutz on the 100th episode of the show, to perform their Emmy award winning piece "The Bench" choreographed by Mia Michaels.

Week	Partner	Style	Song	Result
1	Martha Nichols	Broadway	"Steam Heat"" The Pointer Sisters	Safe
2		Krump	"Clap Back""Ja Rule	Safe
3		Hip-Hop	"Just Fine""Chris Brown	Safe
4		Salsa	"Tanga""Machito and His Afro-Cubans	Safe
5		Foxtrot	"Witchcraft""Steve Tyrell	Bottom 3
	Result Show Solo		""The Blower's Daughter""Damien Rice	Safe
6	Heidi Groskreutz	Paso Doble	"The Plaza of Execution" from The Mask of Zorro	Safe
		Contemporary	"Calling You""Celine Dion
	Solo		"Belief""Gavin DeGraw
7	Donyelle Jones	Hip Hop	"London Bridge""Fergie	Bottom 4
		Quickstep	"Dancin' Fool""Barry Manilow
	Result Show Solo		"Gotta Get Thru This (Acoustic)""Daniel Bedingfield	Safe
8	Heidi Groskreutz	Smooth Waltz	"Flying""Cait Agus Sean	Safe
		Afro Pop	"W'Happy Mama""Zap Mama
	Solo		"You And Me""Lifehouse
	Results show solo		"Flying Without Wings (A Capella version)""Westlife
9	Heidi Groskreutz	Disco	"Shake Your Groove Thing""Peaches & Herb	Runner-Up
	Benji Schwimmer	Hip Hop	"Gyrate""Da Muzicianz feat. Mr. Collipark
	Donyelle Jones	Contemporary	"Georgia On My Mind""Ray Charles
	Solo		"Konstantine""Something Corporate

Post-SYTYCD

Wall danced on the October 16, 2007 Dancing with the Stars results show, in a piece choreographed by and starring Wade Robson. Wall, along with Tidwell and many previous finalists of So You Think You Can Dance, performed during the second annual Idol Gives Back charity event on April 9, 2008. Nigel Lythgoe produced both shows at the time.

Wall performs regularly with American Dance Artists, in Delmarva, as well as for Evolution dance company in Los Angeles, California. He teaches students contemporary dance at NUVO, a dance convention that tours the nation. In 2007, Wall and Ivan Koumaev made a dance video called Its About Time designed to be for the viewer's entertainment rather than for instructional purposes like most dance videos.

Wall was in the 2008 Disney movie Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler, alongside SYTYCD Season 3 contestant, Lacey Schwimmer. In 2010 Wahl worked as an assistant choreographer for the Academy Awards, alongside Mia Michaels and Brian Friedman.

So You Think You Can Dance Get Fit: Cardio Funk was one of two home exercise videos released by the producers of SYTYCD. Wall choreographed a contemporary dance and corresponding cool-down routine for the video.

Wall choreographed and performed in an ensemble piece featuring New York City Ballet principal ballerina Tiler Peck to a piece by Nuttin' But Stringz for ABC's Dancing with the Stars April 13, 2010 episode in a feature called "Macy's Stars of Dance".

In 2010, Wall choreographed several numbers for the VMA's

In 2011, Wall choreographed a floor exercise routine for Olympic All-Around Champion Nastia Liukin which she will use to try to earn a spot on the 2012 Olympic USA Gymnastics team.

Wall will be starring in a new reality show "All the Right Moves" with Teddy Forance, Nick Lazzarini, and Kyle Robinson. The four men are launching their own dance company called Shaping Sound.

Choreography for So You Think You Can Dance

Season	Week	Dancers	Style	Song
Season 5	6	Jeanine Mason Jason Glover	Contemporary	"If It Kills Me"(The Casa Nova Sessions)"Jason Mraz
	7	Top 8	Jazz	"Let It Rock""Kevin Rudolf feat. Lil Wayne
Season 6	1	Bianca Revels Victor Smalley	Contemporary	"Wasted Time""Me'shell Ndegeocello
	4	Ellenore Scott Ryan Di Lello		"Your Ex-Lover Is Dead""Stars
	7	Ellenore Scott Jonathan "Legacy" Perez		"Machine Gun""Portishead
	8	Ashleigh Di Lello Ryan Di Lello		"I'm There Too""Michelle Featherstone
Season 7	Vegas	All dancers	Contemporary	"A Beautiful Mess""Jason Mraz
	Meet Your Top 11	Kent Boyd Lauren Froderman Mark Kanemura Kathryn McCormick	Jazz	"Paris is Burning""St. Vincent
	1	Adéchiké Torbert Kathryn McCormick		"Addicted to Love""Florence and the Machine
	2	Ashley Galvan Mark Kanemura		"Wonderful""Annie Lennox
	4	Lauren Froderman Kent Boyd	Contemporary	"Collide" (acoustic version)"Howie Day
	5	Robert Roldan Allison Holker		"Fix You""Coldplay
	8	Kent Boyd Neil Haskell		"How It Ends""DeVotchKa
Season 8	Vegas	All dancers	Contemporary	"Yellow""Vitamin String Quartet
	Meet the Top 20	Alexander Fost Mitchell Kelly Caitlynn Lawson Ryan Ramirez Ashley Rich		"Moth's Wings""Passion Pit
	1	Sasha Mallory Alexander Fost		"Stupid [Mark Bell mix]""Sarah McLachlan
		Melanie Moore Marko Germar		"Turn to stone""Ingrid Michaelson
	5	Jordan Casanova Tadd Gadduang		"Brotsjór""Ólafur Arnalds
		Caitlynn Lawson Mitchell Kelly	Jazz	"Piece of My Heart""Janis Joplin

Publications

In February 2007, Wall was featured in a fashion/dance spread in movmnt magazine (which Tidwell co-founded). The following June, Wall interviewed Whoopi Goldberg for the magazine.

Wall was featured in the photography book Moving Still: a Life Performance by David Benaym.

Personal life

In 2007, his adoptive brother Danny Tidwell was a runner-up of the third season of So You Think You Can Dance. He, too, had trained with their mother Denise Wall, who also trained Jaimie Goodwin, a Season 3 contestant. Wall is openly gay.

Footnotes

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