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Paul Harris is a leading choreographer in film, television and theatre, who's best known choreography to date, is probably the laser scenes for Catherine Zeta-Jones in the Hollywood blockbuster 'Entrapment'. He has also coached and choreographed for Oscar, BAFTA, Tony and Emmy Award winning actors including, Sean Connery, Gary Oldman, Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham-Carter, Robert Lindsay, Zoe Wanamaker, Sam Neill and Charles Dance

Other choreography and movement direction credits in film and television include the BAFTA winning ' Bleak House' and 'The Way We Live Now', the BAFTA nominated 'To the Ends of the Earth' and 'The Sins', 'Jane Eyre' for the BBC, 'Cheatah Girls 2' for Disney, 'Poirot', 'A Touch of Frost', 'William and Mary', 'My Family', 'The Quest 2', 'I was a Rat', and 'The Tichborne Claimant'. Forthcoming productions yet to be released include 'The Other Boleyn Girl' with Scarlett Johanssen and Natalie Portman, 'Love and Other Disasters' staring Brittany Murphy, Gwyneth Paltrow and Orlando Bloom, 'Mister Lonely'' with Samantha Morton and most notably Paul has just completed extensive choreography for 'Harry Potter & The Order Of The Phoenix' to be released July 2007 for which he has created a lanaguage for the use of the wand in the world of Harry Potter.

Paul has been a guest dance tutor for the Royal Shakespeare Company and he is currently Movement Director on 'The Entertainer' at The Old Vic. Other theatre credits include 'Flight of the Swan' at The Royal Opera House, 'A Family Affair' for the Theatre Royal, Bath, the Uk National Tour of 'Wallflowering', 'Dancing at Lughanasa', 'David Copperfield', 'Erpingham Camp', 'Mill on the Floss', 'The Rivals', 'As You Like It' and 'The American Clock'.

As a teacher, Paul was the main mentor in the 'Kick Boxer to Dancer' episode of the multi award winning 'Faking It'. Paul is an Actors Centre tutor and has devised courses for, and taught at, ALRA, Central School of Speech and Drama, Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and Italia Conti. He has coached and choreographed for World Champions in Showdance, Ballroom Dancing, Salsa, Argentine Tango, Latin American dancing and has taught several of the Profesional Dancers on Strictly Some Dancing and Stricly Dance Fever.

Paul is the author of 'Salsa and Merengue - The Essential Step by Step Guide' and the standard technique book for study for Professional examinations in Merengue, Salsa and Mambo for three British Dance Council teaching organisations. He also wrote the course guide for Acting BA's in 19th & 20th Century Social Dance for the UKA (United Kingdom Alliance of Professional Teachers of Dancing) - of which he is a Fellow and Examiner and is currently co-founding a new Historical Dance faculty for the UKA.

Pauls work is a natural combination of his two backgrounds. He studied acting at drama school himself and on graduating worked extensively in theatre and television including national tours and three West End productions. Prior to this, Paul was the UK, West European and International Champion in both Ballroom and Latin American Dancing.