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Galen Hooks (born November 19, 1985) is an American choreographer, dancer, actress, songwriter, and photographer. She entered the entertainment business at age seven after her dance group won Star Search.〔(Meet the Cast: GALEN HOOKS )〕 She has worked with Janet Jackson, Justin Bieber, Britney Spears, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Miley Cyrus, Ne-Yo, and Usher.〔(MSA Agency )〕 Galen is best known for being one of Janet Jackson's dancers, for her Nike campaigns, for being a dancer and choreographer for ''The LXD'' (The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers),〔(Dance Spirit article on The LXD )〕 and for playing Diamond Eye and Pretti Sinclair in recording artist Ne-Yo's "Beautiful Monster", "Champagne Life", and "One in a Million" music videos.〔(Ne-Yo releases Beautiful Monster video )〕 She was also the associate co-choreographer for the international tour of Dreamgirls and its run at the Apollo Theater in New York.〔(Center Theater Group )〕 Hooks is currently the head choreographer for the hit Nickelodeon show "How To Rock" starring Cymphonique Miller. She is now expanding beyond dance and choreography into Creative Direction and Producing. She was the Supervising Choreographer under the master creative director Jamie King on season 3 of X-Factor USA and the Associate Creative Producer with Brian Burke on America's Got Talent. She is also the consulting producer and host of the upcoming DS2DIO show "Masterclass" where she interviews top choreographers like Fatima Robinson, Brian Friedman, Wade Robson, Travis Payne and more. ==Life== Hooks was a songwriter on recording artist Raistalla's self-titled album. Galen wrote "Krazy" and co-wrote "Attention" and "Speedracer".〔(Raistalla album interview )〕 She also has songs with her music group "CAMPFIRE VAUDEVILLE" written by her and sold on iTunes, Spotify and other music platforms.〔()〕 As a photographer, she has taken pictures of JoiStarr from Kanye West's Glow in the Dark and Touch the Sky tours and MyBlock Records, Melinda Sullivan from ''So You Think You Can Dance'' and Lindsey Blaufarb from Beat Freaks who appeared on the third season of ''America's Best Dance Crew''.〔(Galen Hooks website )〕 Hooks is also the Chair of Dancers' Alliance, an organization that improves the rights and working conditions for professional dancers and choreographers, and spearheaded historic victories in union coverage for music videos and tours.〔http://galenhooks.com/?page_id=1273〕 She has spoken at conferences for the AFL-CIO and SAG-AFTRA, among others. Hooks attended Pennsylvania State University while traveling the world as a professional dancer and graduated with a BA in Pre Law.〔(Penn State "Be Exceptional" ) article〕 She is of Japanese descent on her mother's side and Afro-Brazilian descent on her father's side. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Galen Hooks」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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