Charonne Mose is an Emmy awarded choreographer, art director, dancer.

Early years

Charonne was born in Toronto Canada, the middle of three daughters to Dr. Kenrick Mose and Charmion Mose, both originally from Trinidad and Tobago.
Charonne went on to earn a degree from the Fashion Institute of Technology

Fashion Institute of Technology

The Fashion Institute of Technology, generally known as FIT, is a State University of New York college of art, business, design, and technology connected to the fashion industry, with an urban campus located on West 27th Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of...

 where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. After working in the fashion industry for two years, Charonne decided to seriously pursue a dance career and eventually moved to Los Angeles. She danced and choreographed in New York, Europe and Los Angeles.

Career

Charonne's choreography career really took off when she started working with choreographer and producer Anita Mann

Anita Mann

Anita Mann is an Emmy awarding winning choreographer, as well as a dancer and actress. Mann has been honored by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences as one of America's top five contemporary choreographers...

 in the early nineties. Charonne choreographed numerous television shows, films, videos, commercials and live events in the next fifteen years. Charonne worked with many Hollywood legends like Shari Lewis

Shari Lewis

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, Whoopi Goldberg

Whoopi Goldberg

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, Jerry Lewis

Jerry Lewis

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, Harry Connick Jr., and Mary J. Blige

Mary J. Blige

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. In 1996, Charonne Mose and Anita Mann won an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography for the 1995 Miss America Pageant against Travis Payne and LaVelle Smith, who choreographed Michael Jackson in the MTV Video Music Awards.

After a long successful career in dance and after the birth of her daughter, Kaaya Bufford, Charonne decided to go back to school and study interactive media. She then went on to earn a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business graduating on the President's List. She recently left the Disney Interactive Media Group after working as an art director to pursue a new position at the Fox Broadcasting Company as senior interaction designer.

Awards and honors

In 1995, Charonne Mose won an Emmy for Outstanding Choreography for the Miss America Pageant.
Charonne has also won an Addy Award from the American Advertising Association and a Webby Award for her work in interactive design.