Mr. Tyson has choreographed over 50 works. Notably, he has created works for a broad range of companies such as Ailey III, Ailey II, Dance Compass, Brooklyn Dance Theater, Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Company, Premiere Dance Theatre, Milwaukee Dance Connection, City Ballet Theatre, Milwaukee Ballet II, Dance Wisconsin, Ballet Forder Zentrum /Nuremberg, Germany, Dance Point /Osaka, Japan and de Theaterschool Jazz Dance Company /Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.

Mr. Tyson was the recipient of a 1982 New Jersey State Council of the Arts Fellowship Grant for choreography. He served as an assistant to Talley Beatty in the restaging of his work The Road of the Phoebe Snow on Ailey 2, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, and the Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Company 1985-1990. He also assisted Mr. Beatty during the restaging of his The Stack Up on the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company for the American Dance Festival in 1988. In 1994, Mr. Tyson was invited to participate as a guest choreographer at the prestigious Carlisle Project. He was the featured choreographer for Toenails of Steel & Ruby Red Text, a program produced as part of the 20^th anniversary season for the Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center in Brooklyn, New York in 1996. Here his work, Lost Boyz, was presented as part of a collaborative project of other black Gay and Lesbian composers, poets and choreographers under the Artistic Direction of Ron K. Brown. He restaged Alvin Ailey’s Sinner Man and Mean Ole’ Frisco for the 65^th Anniversary Celebration ofMen Dancers at Jacob’s Pillow in 1997. Most recently, Mr. Tyson restaged Talley Beatty’s Come And Get The Beauty Of It Hot for the University of South Florida School of Theater and Dance, collaborating with former Ailey dancer John Parks.

Mr. Tyson was selected to choreograph Chancellor Nancy Zimpher’s Inaugural Celebration at UW-Milwaukee in 1999. He has developed an affiliation with Ko-Thi Dance Company, one of the country’s pre-eminent independent companies focused on works of African and Afro-Caribbean origin. Mr. Tyson has performed as a Guest Artist in 2000 and serves as Creative Consultant for the company. Mr. Tyson went on to receive a grant from the Alvin Ailey Dancer’s Resource Fund that same year. In 2003 he received a grant from the UW-Milwaukee Arts and Humanities Award Program and choreography for the University’s Viennese Ball in 2004.

Mr. Tyson expanded his choreographic talents to musical theater with a very successful and well reviewed restaging of Ain’t Misbehavin for the Skylight Opera that same year. He was a 1999, 2005 and 2006 recipient of a grant from the Faculty Development Fund of the UW-Milwaukee PSOA Department of Dance.Recent choreographic endeavors include Juke Joint a second collaborative offering with Ko-Thi Dance Company under the musical direction of Milwaukee Jazz legend Berkley Fudge.