Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Tyjeane Christian. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Tyjeane, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

The most creative project I’ve done was having the chance and opportunity to bring an overall vision to life. This concept goes from music videos to concept videos telling an overall story. Being able to select the location that goes best with the song, putting together dance choreography to enhance the message of the song as well as coming up with the theme & uniform for the piece alone for it to all make sense. It can be a difficulty finding a videographer that cares as much as you do for the vision you’re trying to create and would go above and beyond to make it look exactly how you’d want it to but when you find your video guy you feel unstoppable from there. Overall since a young age of 9 I’ve always liked to create dance and dreamed to be a choreographer. After years of being on teams and learning the concept of choreographing, formatting and theme creating its become more of a passion to creating visuals as a whole in which my skill has grown.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

The passion of dance was instilled in me at the young age of 4. The moment my mom put me in my 1st pair of tap dance shoes is when my journey of a dancer began. In my senior year of highschool I started a dance team called ‘Lady Lions Band Dance’ which allowed my choreography journey to begin, not only choreographing for myself but for a group of peers that wanted to share my passion with me. After my growing life and continuing dance journey in Norcal and finally moving to Los Angeles my first solo performance out there happened in January 2019 where after finishing my solo I was booked for my first paid gig. I was able to solo in my 1st music video, though I have booked music videos since age 18, at 19 my 1st paid music video was booked and it kept growing from there. The idea of creating choreography went from team based choreo, to live stage performance, to music videos then to ‘dancing music promos’ where I would show support to independent artist dancing and promoting their music. After 2 years of music promos and having a selection of dancers to pull from after joining an industry based dance team, ‘T.E.A.M LA’ I was given the ideal to start doing collaboration prices where a solid base rate for dancers was given, and a price for videographer was given as they would be provided. With that idea it was taken to a level where I decided I would be a service provider providing dancers, models as well as videographers being called ‘TyLit.Entertainment where a base dancer/choreographer rate is given and a venue selected with its rate as well as the videographer with their given rate. Models became apart of my service recently being that there is a demand for them as well. TyLit.Entertainment sets me apart from others because its a service provided by individuals as a whole that only wants to help a vision come to reality going above and beyond to ensure it happens at discounted overall rates being that its all combined. Im proud of the fact everyone apart of my service have the same passion and heart like I have and we can all come together no matter how far apart to still make an artist’s vision come to their reality.

What can society do to ensure an environment that’s helpful to artists and creatives?

I think the main thing which is something that can be done for free is share. We all continuously share A list celebrities pics, music and random posts keeping them up top getting their pockets fatter but hardly share someone upcoming forgetting that each time we listen to their music we help their streaming numbers and overall chances go up in their chance of going viral. The best thing society can do for our upcoming peers is simply share and to listen/watch the musical passion they desire to share with us.

Are there any resources you wish you knew about earlier in your creative journey?

I wish I knew to connect with the right choreographers that could’ve trained me in the competitive industry it is. Or meeting my mentors more soon for me to have always desired to book solo performance gigs vs hide in the shadows of teams.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://instagram.com/officially.tychristian_?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
• Youtube: Youtube.com/channel/UC6pFl1sllmxdSgoQ5YJQiDg

Image Credits
Image credits to *@ovosweets *@shotsbyheem *@bmarvision *@tyisartt *@poeticst0ner3