W TOFO OPEN CIARA’S CONCERT
American superstar Ciara requested the presence of W Tofo – Mario & Xavier to open her concert with one of their magic performances, well done guys!
BEYONCE – ‘Love on Top’
Frank Gatson Jr creative Director on Beyonce’s single ‘Love on Top’ featuring Chris Grant who also co-choreographed and dancer/model Aaron Witter.
BEYONCE – ‘Countdown’
Frank Gatson Creative Dir. for Beyonce’s latest video ‘Countdown’ featuring our gorgeous Aaron Witter.
BEYONCE UK PROMO TOUR 2011
Co-Choreographer and dancer Chris Grant tours with Beyonce on her UK promo tour. The promo blitz takes him to a legendary performance at Glastonbury, Oxegen Festival in Ireland and T in the Park in Scotland!
MTV Video Music Awards 2011 – BEYONCE ‘Love on Top’
Creative Director Frank Gatson and Chris Grant choreograph Beyonce’s performance of ‘Love on Top’ at the MTV Video Music Awards 2011 in L.A
FRANK GATSON JR: MTV Video Music Award 2011 for Best Choreography!!!
Lucky Number 7!!! Congratulations to Frank Gatson JR for bagging his 7th Video Music Award in Choreography for Beyonce’s ‘Run The World – Girl’.
BEYONCE – ‘Who Run The World (Girls)’
Beyonce is back with her new single ‘Who Run The World’ that comes with such an epic video directed by superstar Francis Lawrence and Choreographed by Frank Gatson Jr. Chokolate cast the 240 dancers and models which was shot over 3 days in L.A. Shout out to Sarah Amos and Chloe Tangney from the UK who were also in the video! Chokolate also sourced the Kwaito Mozambican Dancers W TOFO Mario and Xavier for B and Frank , who were the main inspiration for the movement in the video. It was a huge job and so very worth it!
BEYONCE – TARGET COMMERCIAL feat. W TOFO
W TOFO Mario & Xavier feature in a Target TV commercial for Beyonce’s album ‘4’.
BEYONCE Oprah Farewell Show
After the successful work on the ‘Girls’ video, Chokolate were contracted to cast 60 female dancers for the historical Oprah Surprise Farewell Show in Chicago which celebrated Oprah’s 25 year run. Beyonce performed her single ‘Run the World‘ after Dakota Fanning’s segment and the show which taped over 2 days was a star studded extravaganza with the likes of Stevie Wonder, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise, Halle Berry, Will Smith, Usher and many more!
Creative Director: Frank Gatson; Choreographer: Chris Grant
BEYONCE – BILLBOARD AWARDS 2011
This year Beyonce was honoured with the Billboard Millenium Award at the Billboard Awards at the MGM in Vegas. Chokolate were responsible for the casting of the 100 female dancers in this showstopping performance of ‘Run The World’! Well done to Frank Gatson JR for pulling it off as well as our rising superstar Chris Grant who co choreographed. It was a lot of hard work but the results are clear! What a show..! Chokolate was also contributed as visual graphics consultant.