Chris Komnick, executive director, and James Mason, artistic director of the Madison Scouts, are pleased to announce the appointment of Jim Moore as Choreographer and Color Guard Visual Designer for the Madison Scouts.For the past 10 years, Jim Moore has served on the Blast! design team as choreographer and was the principal dancer in Blast!, Shockwave, Cyberjam, and M.I.X as well as working extensively on training each of the casts in all movement technique. Jim, along with the choreography team, received an Emmy Award in 2001 for the PBS broadcast of Blast!. They were also nominated for the 2001 Tony award and the 2002 National Broadway Theatre Award for Choreography.Jim has been dancing professionally for 16 years, beginning his career as a principal dancer with the Georgia Ballet Company. Along with Jim’s ballet career, he has been the choreographer for many world champion winter guards and drum corps including, the Pride of Cincinnati, Emerald Marquis, Santa Clara Vanguard, Cadets of Bergen County, Carolina Crown and Aimachi from Nagoya, Japan.