Travis Wall Needs A Vacation

Travis Wall has uniform appeal across all of his projects./Photo: Cory Jones

AfterElton: Hi Travis it's great that after being fans for years, we finally got to talk to you twice in six months.
Travis Wall: Yeah, that's awesome!

AE: I suppose I should start out by thanking you for the opportunity to go on the Atlantis cruise, because it was your video with Nick Lazzarini that prompted them to call me and invite me on the cruise as well.
TW: Oh, that's awesome. Seriously, I need a break so bad, and I'm so excited to go on it and get away for a second because I've been so overworked and so crazy.

AE: I've seen that. So how did you get connected with Atlantis before we get into your big announcement.
TW: My PR firm, I'm with Fifteen Minutes, and I guess they work with Atlantis. I really have no idea how it came up, but I got a phone call that said "You wanna go on a cruise? Maybe host it, do some fun activities for the guests on board?" And I was like "Are you kidding me?" I've never been on a cruise ship, and they said Nick too, because we've been best friends forever. And we're going to have so much fun.

AE:  It really is exciting. So you guys are going host a dance contest?
TW: Yeah, we're going to have a mock So You Think You Can Dance competition onboard, we'll be the judges, people can dance with us. The winners will get a lesson with us and we'll make up a dance with them. There's going to be a lot of things on board. We'll be having as much fun as possible.

AE: I have that plan too, but I promise you I won't enter the dance contest, nobody needs to see that.
TW: [laughs] I'll keep you to your promise.

AE: Besides, January on a cruise ship is nice work if you can get it.
TW: Right.

AE: So you also have that big announcement this week that your show All the Right Moves was in development at Oxygen.
TW: Yeah, yeah. We've been working on it for a while. The title, is still up for grabs. I guess Oxygen changed the title of the show. It's still in the very early stages of development. I've been working on it a year and a couple months now. We've been with three production companies, then we got picked up by a production company, World of Wonder and they've been amazing setting us with network meetings, and Oxygen was really interested. We filmed a pilot, and I'm so happy with it.

I guess now they are still considering it to be in development. We're not in greenlight yet, which really caught me off guard, the public announcement, their release statement. I called World of Wonder and said "Does this mean we got picked up?" and they're like "No, we don't know why they sent that but it's a really good time to make a public statement about our show and really be putting it out there."  

I'm really excited. It's a unique show, it's a very different show and hopefully it's going to open up a lot of eyes and it's going to be very loud. I'm very excited.

AE: When we talked last, the show was about you and Nick and Teddy forming a dance company called Shaping Sound, and you were calling it Kings of Dance. It had you guys living together and forming a dance troupe. Has the show evolved from that concept?
TW:  It's basically that same concept, just a different name. We have our first show, our first company show next week (this week) December 13th at the Highland, it's for Shaping sound, it's going to be amazing. If you go to Shaping Sound you can buy tickets.

It's going to be possibly one of the most beautiful things you guys have seen. The process has been amazing with my friends making the show, and we really have the best dancers on stage, it's going to be pretty amazing.