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She’s worked with the likes of Madonna, Ricky Martin, Gloria Estefan, Prince and Celine Dion. She’s choreographed for Cirque du Soliel and the Rockettes, served as guest artist and mentor at Broadway at the White House hosted by Michelle Obama, and choreographed the movie Rock of Ages featuring Tom Cruise and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Yet with all that to her credit, millions of Americans were introduced to the work of Mia Michaels on So You Think You Can Dance.

During the show’s second season, she choreographed a piece to the song “Calling You” by Celine Dion that would become a watershed moment for dance on modern television.

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Known as “The Bench,” it was the moment when contemporary dance as an art form became something consumable and relatable to a mass audience through television.

“The stars aligned and it was a moment in TV that was very honest and human.

It was something that was so simple and so provoking and so real,” Michaels explains. “It’s almost like it was a moving