Toni Basil is a visionary, a multi award-winning choreographer, dancer, director, producer, recording artist and street dance historian.  While perhaps best known for her hit 1982 double platinum song, “Hey Mickey”, which has since become an 80’s pop anthem, Basil’s career, especially as a choreographer, has spanned multiple decades. Coming from a vaudevillian family she started as a dancer, but swiftly moved into the choreographer’s and director’s chair with over 50 television, music video, and concert credits to her name. She has worked with an array of artists including David Bowie ,Bette Midler, Tina Turner, David Byrne ,David Lee Roth, Mick Jagger, Linda Ronstadt ,Lilly Tomlin, Enrique Iglesias, and many others. Toni has also choreographed a number of hit films including American Graffiti, Peggy Sue Got Married, the Legally Blonde movies, and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, for which director Quentin Tarantino crowned her the “Goddess of Go-Go.” As an actress she appeared in such classic movies as Easy Rider and Five Easy Pieces, and was a featured dancer in Viva Las Vegas with Elvis Presley.  Among her many accolades, Toni is an Emmy Award and two-time American Choreography Award winner, as well as a Grammy and MTV Music Award nominee.  From 2008-2009 she appeared as a guest-judge on the hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance.

Amongst her most groundbreaking work Toni is credited with bringing street dance as an American art form to prominence as a founding member and manager of “the group that changed the face of dance” The Lockers . In 2008 she received the “Living Legend of Hip Hop” Award from Hip Hop International.  Toni Basil has been at the cutting edge of pop culture for the last six decades and remains a true pioneer in the dance world.