About
Hailing from London UK, Del Mak is an Award Winning Choreographer, Creative Director and Judge establishing himself as a significant force in direction and choreography. Highly respected for his vast knowledge of dance and movement, he is recognised for his innovative approach to creative movement in numerous mediums including Music, Fashion, Theatre, Award Shows, Live Events, Television and Film.
His expertise spans many movement genres including Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary, Parkour, Martial Arts, Latin American and Street Dance (Breaking, Locking, Popping, Waacking, Vogue, House and Commercial). Del has worked with established artists/actors/directors including Oscar nominated and Grammy Award winning talent.
Del’s choreography has been internationally endorsed by the likes of Madonna with his debut short film ‘Shift’ awarded by the pop superstar as a winning submission for her #ArtForFreedom Campaign, as well as winning at the New York Independent Film Festival, the InShadow Festival, the Reel 13 Short Film Contest, and achieving Official Selections at over 15 International Film Festivals. Del received a 2014 World Dance Award nomination, at the Hollywood award ceremony which honours the world’s top choreographers.
Del can be seen on screen as a World Expert Judge on US major network CBS TV talent show ‘The World’s Best’.
Del has choreographed for artists such as The Chemical Brothers, Franz Ferdinand + Sparks, M.I.A, Timbaland, Snarky Puppy’s Bill Laurance, McFly, Elbow and Melody Gardot, and created performances for live broadcasted major award ceremonies/shows including the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, African Music Awards, UK Asian Music Awards, Hello Kitty Live World Tour and the Channel 4 Comedy Gala at the O2 Arena. He has been a Creative and Performance Choreographer on UK’s biggest live TV Dance show Sky TV’s Got To Dance as well as having choreographed key commercial campaigns for Nike, L’Oreal, Pizza Hut, BMW Mini, MTV, Footlocker, Barclays, Cadbury and Adidas.
Del draws experience from his illustrious performance career which has included working with renowned artists such as Beyonce, Gwen Stefani, Lady GaGa, Leona Lewis, Jessie J, One Direction, Alexandra Burke and Pet Shop Boys, at the London 2012 Olympic Games, award shows including the MTV Europe Awards, Brit Awards and appeared on TV for TOTP and The X Factor, and on DVD in The Strictly Come Dancing and Step Up Dance Workout.
As an instructor, Del loves sharing his knowledge having travelled the world facilitating workshops and masterclasses at prestigious studios, companies, schools and gyms, including Edge Performing Arts Center (Los Angeles), Millenium Dance Complex (Las Vegas), Peridance (New York), Pineapple Studios (London), Studio 68 (London), Culture Shock (San Diego, New York, Canada and UK), and in countries such as Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Greece, Ireland, Romania, Thailand, Peru and Malaysia.
E-learning
See which ScreenSkills e-learning Del Mak has completed to improve their skills and knowledge.
Experience
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Choreographer
Hard Cell - Choreographer for Catherine Tate's 6-part comedy series for Netflix, Hard Cell is a women's prison mockumentary as a documentary crew follows the inmates and staff of HMP Woldsley.
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Choreographer
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry - Feature Film. Choreographer for movie adaptation of Rachel Joyce’s best-selling novel The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry working with BAFTA-winning director Hettie Macdonald, of BBC and Hulu hit 'Normal People' and produced by BAFTA-winner Kevin Loader (The Death Of Stalin) with Juliet Dowling and Marilyn Milgrom.
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World Expert TV Judge
The World's Best - Global talent competition TV show hosted by James Corden, Del represented the UK as an expert Judge in Dance and Choreography
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Fight Choreographer & Fight Director
BONDish short action film - A man follows a mysterious female through London and into the Tate Modern, which escalates to a foot and car chase out to the UK countryside, culminating in an epic battle to the end at a castle. Trained model and actress Albina Kireeva, who had no fight experience, in 5 realistic choreographed fight sequences involving weapons (guns & knife) and unarmed combat utilising the Gloucestershire castle location’s rooms, staircase and features in one rehearsal day prior to the shoot day.
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Talent Scout
The Greatest Dancer - Scouting the UK's Best Dancers for the BBC's Dance Talent TV Show
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Choreographer
Cricket World Cup 2019 | Are You In? feat. Freddie Flintoff - Working with Oscar nominated Director Peter Cattaneo to choreograph a musical celebration of the Cricket World Cup 2019, starring cricket star Andrew ‘Freddie’ Flintoff in an all singing and dancing commercial to Imagine Dragons’ ‘On Top of the World’ featuring a huge cast of 23 dancers/actors, a brass band and 100 passionate cricket fans on their journey through quintessential Britain ending up at the world famous Oval cricket ground.
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Choreographer
Blind Date - Choreographer for Channel 5's promo for dating show featuring Paul O'Grady
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Choreographer
Britain's Got Talent - Creative Consultant and Choreographer for BGT Semi-Finalist Dance Act Bollywest Fusion
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Choreographer
Channel 4's Comedy Gala - Choreographer for comedian Paddy McGuinness' humourous fitness based comedy sketch, broadcasted live from London’s O2 Arena
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Talent Scout
Britain's Got Talent - Scouting Europe's best dance talent
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Creative Team & Choreographer
Got To Dance - Creative team & Supervising Performance Choreographer for all contestants UK & Ireland’s biggest & highly successful hit reality TV dance talent show broadcasted live on Sky 1 HD
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Creative Team & Choreographer
Got To Dance - Creative team & Supervising Performance Choreographer for all contestants UK & Ireland’s biggest & highly successful hit reality TV dance talent show broadcasted live on Sky 1 HD
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Choreographer
Loose Women - Choreographer for singer Preeya Kalidas' special appearance
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Creative Team & Choreographer
Got To Dance - Creative team & Supervising Performance Choreographer for all contestants UK & Ireland’s biggest & highly successful hit reality TV dance talent show broadcasted live on Sky 1 HD
Education and training
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Mental health awareness for managers
ScreenSkills Funded
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Networking skills for freelancers
ScreenSkills Funded
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Coronavirus basic awareness on production training
ScreenSkills Funded
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Coronavirus intermediate awareness on production for HoDs
ScreenSkills Funded
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Digital Cities Virtual: Sort out your skills
ScreenSkills Funded
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Coronavirus basic awareness on production training
ScreenSkills Funded
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Managing the risk of Covid-19 in TV Production
ScreenSkills Funded
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Digital Cities Virtual: Networking during lockdown
ScreenSkills Funded