Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe
Nigel Lythgoe is an English television and film director and producer, television dance competition judge, former dancer in the Young Generation and choreographer. He is noted for being the producer of the shows Pop Idol and American Idol and creator and executive producer of, and a regular judge on So You Think You Can Dance. He also created the 2009 competition Superstars of Dance...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth9 July 1949
becomes breathing entity experience life rather sensuality sexuality
With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living, breathing entity from the soul.
tolkien
'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started it again.
became home
'American Idol' became a juggernaut of epic proportions, but to me it was always like home.
screw takes
It takes two to make a relationship, but only one to screw it up.
genre life truth
Hip-hop is a way of life. It isn't a genre in truth in 'American Idol.'
dancer form tap trained
I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.
everybody
We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day.
bad days died later nearly people realising shouting weeks
I nearly died with the peritonitis, but not the heart attack. The heart attack was like bad indigestion and two weeks later I was back in shouting at people. I was shouting at people during the heart attack. I had it for three days without realising what it was.
ballet base bit choose classical dancer dancers jazz people report sort throwing true
So many people report to be contemporary dancers, and they're not. They are sort of jazz dancers that feel like they're throwing a bit of classical in there. I mean, a true contemporary dancer has got ballet as their base and classical ballet, and that is their base. And then they choose to extemporize on that and go into a contemporary world.
angst anguish cannot change reaching run somebody stage stretching teenage
We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.
adam love
Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.
came saw
I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.
best
Nicki Minaj I think is one of the best judges I've ever worked with.
believe best business host
There can always be an 'Idol' without anybody. I believe that Seacrest is probably the best host in the business.