Ian Eastwood
Ian Eastwood is a Chicago-born dancer, choreographer and director who makes dance films, teaches dancers, builds community through WENZDAYS and releases music as E!.
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Known for
- Dance filmPath2024 · Director, choreographer and performer
- World of Dance: Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions2017 · Contestant and group leader
NBC - Dance filmAdultLessons2015 · Creator of a dance mixtape
- Sunday Candy2015 · Lead choreographer
Music video - Taemin: Danger2014 · Choreographer
SM Entertainment - E!: HOT2025 · Recording artist
Music video
Overview
- From
- Chicago, Illinois
- Craft
- Dancer, choreographer, director and recording artist
- Started dancing
- Age 10
- Online beginnings
- Started uploading to YouTube in 2006, aged 12
- On television
- Mos Wanted Crew on America’s Best Dance Crew; Ian Eastwood and the Young Lions on World of Dance
Mini bio
How it started.
Ian grew up in Chicago with two painter parents. In a 2015 interview with Fake Shore Drive, he recalled an exchange of art and dance classes that led him to a hip-hop lesson built around Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” He started dancing at 10 and later trained in hip-hop, jazz and ballet.
Finding his audience.
Ian told BENlabs that he began uploading to YouTube in 2006, aged 12, learning to transfer footage from videotape and teaching himself to edit. Those early uploads helped turn dance into a career: by 16 he was traveling internationally to teach. He went on to perform with Mos Wanted Crew on America’s Best Dance Crew.
Dance as the main event.
His work ranges from choreography for Taemin’s “Danger” and Childish Gambino’s “Sober” to lead choreography for “Sunday Candy.” With AdultLessons in 2015, he packaged his own dance work as a visual mixtape. In 2017, he brought his students, the Young Lions, to NBC’s World of Dance.
What he is building now.
Ian continues to connect choreography, filmmaking and teaching. His short Path turns a garage into the setting for a solo performance; WENZDAYS opens up free space for dancers to build and learn choreography together. His YouTube channel also carries his music releases under the name E!.
Creditschronological, newest first
Independent films and music
- 2026Birthday CakeWriter, director and executive producer; artist as E!
- 2025HOT REMIX feat. WHOISJKArtist as E!; director and director of photography
- 2024PathDirector, choreographer and performer
- 2015AdultLessonsCreator and choreographer
Television and film
- 2026Street World Fighter: Directors’ WarSpecial judge, final
- 2017World of DanceContestant with the Young Lions
- 2016High StrungRik
- 2012America’s Best Dance Crew, season 7Dancer and choreographer, Mos Wanted Crew
Music video choreography
- 2015Sunday Candy: Donnie Trumpet & the Social ExperimentLead choreographer
- 2015Sober: Childish GambinoChoreographer and creative director
- 2014Danger: TaeminChoreographer
Awards
Quotes
Stay true to what you believe in, whether it’s trending or not.Ian Eastwood, BENlabs Creator Spotlight
Advice for people starting to create, shared in his May 2023 interview.
Trivia
- Both of his parents are painters, and they made original artwork for tracks on AdultLessons.
- He taught himself to edit while learning to convert videotape into digital footage for his early uploads.
- The Young Lions group grew out of relationships with his students. In his own account, there were no auditions; he looked for a strong work ethic and a desire to learn.
- His first Sony collaboration was in 2021, featuring the SRS-XG500 speaker.
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