Dean Lee: A Career Built for the Spotlight

CHOREOGRAPHY BY DEAN LEE

ARTIST: LADY GAGA, BEYONCE - TELEPHONE

LOCATION: THE MANOR LDN DANCE STUDIO, FINSBURY PARK, NORTH LONDON

From performing on some of the world’s biggest stages to shaping choreography of his own, Dean Lee brings his creative language to The Manor LDN.

Dean Lee’s career has always existed between performance and creation. A London-based choreographer and creative with more than 15 years in the entertainment industry, Dean trained at Urdang Academy on a full scholarship before beginning his professional career with the Bolshoi Ballet’s London residency of La Bayadère. From there, his path moved into commercial dance, television, theatre, fashion and live performance.

His performance credits include Janet Jackson, Kylie Minogue, The Pussycat Dolls, Take That, Leona Lewis, Little Mix and Chaka Khan, while his television work has taken him from The X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing to The Royal Variety Show and The Masked Singer. His relationship with Janet Jackson has also developed across multiple projects, from performing and assisting creatively to choreographing for her Together Again tour.

But Dean’s career has increasingly moved towards creating as well as performing. His choreography and creative work spans artists, television, theatre and fashion, with an approach that combines technical precision with performance, musicality and an eye for detail. It is that understanding of what makes movement work on stage, on camera and in front of an audience that gives his choreography its distinctive quality.

At The Manor LDN, Dean brings that experience to Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s “Telephone” — a track already embedded in pop culture, reinterpreted through his own commercial vocabulary. The result is a class built around performance, precision and commitment, giving dancers the chance to work with a choreographer whose career has spent years moving between the stage, screen and studio.

Watch Dean Lee’s “Telephone” choreography below and experience his movement language at The Manor LDN.