4/27-5/11
INTERMEDIATE HORTON
Friday 1:00-2:30pm

Bradley Shelver ( South Africa) trained in ISTD and at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg and The Ailey School, NYC. He has danced with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Company, Elisa Monte Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, The Francesca Harper Project…
>> more about Bradley Shelver

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5/15
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE THEATER DANCE
Tuesday 2:30-4:00pm

5/21 & 5/28
INTERMEDIATE THEATER DANCE
Monday 1:00-2:30pm

Some favorite Broadway & National Tours include, Fosse, Chicago, Sweet Charity with Wayne Cilento and A Chorus Line (Sheila) with Mitzi Hamilton. Regional work includes (Cassie) in A Chorus Line with Baayork Lee, Kay Cole and Donna Drake.

>> more about Kathryn Mowat-Murphy

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5/6 – 5/27
BEGINNING FLAMENCO
Sunday 3:30-5:00pm

INTERMEDIATE FLAMENCO
Sunday 5:00-6:30pm

Since Mariliana’s return to New York City in 2008, she has performed at the Brooklyn Museum, The Hispanic Arts Society, The 78th Street Theatre Lab, The Riverside Theatre at The Riverside Church, The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, Monkey Town Performance Space.
>> more about Mariliana Arvelo

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5/7 – 5/11 & 5/21-5/25
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE CONTEMPORARY
Monday, Wednesday & Friday 2:30-4:30pm

An internationally renowned choreographer, director, dancer and actor, Cherice’s extensive background in the conception and production of live events has led her to creatively direct, choreograph and collaborate on numerous notable projects.
>> more about Cherice Barton

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Learn the technique and choreography of Jack Cole, known by many as the “Father of American Jazz Dance” from Cole-influenced choreographer Chet Walker. Combining ballet, modern, East Indian, Afro-Cuban and African-American dance, Jack Cole created a new movement vocabulary set to contemporary jazz music.

Some of his best known works (film & Broadway) include Gentleman Prefer Blondes, Les Girls, On the Riviera, Kismet, A Funny Thing Happened. . ., Man of La Mancha.

Source: Dance Film Association

Class Description: The warm-up consists of core building exercises combining ballet, isolations, and strength. The cross the floor combinations of Mr. Cole’s choreography will focus on East Indian, Afro-Cuban, and Lindy-Hop.

We encourage dancers to bring yoga mats to class. . . Limited availability at Steps.

Multi-Award Winning Director/Choreographer Chet Walker has garnered acclaim onstage in theaters across the globe, in television, film, music video and all commercial media.
>> more about Chet Walker

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5/8 – 5/24
INTERMEDIATE CONTEMPORARY
Tuesday & Thursday 3:00-4:30pm

6/5 & 6/7
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ
Tuesday & Thursday 1:00-2:30pm

At Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (New York) Manuel has performed works by Ohad Naharin, Hofesh Shechter, Didy Veldman, Jo Stromgren, Alexander Eckman and Benoit- Swan Pouffer.
>> more about Manuel Vignoulle

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5/8-5/17
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ
Tuesday & Thursday 1:00-2:30pm

Maija Garcia is director of Organic Magnetics and Creative Director/Associate Choreographer of FELA! Garcia worked alongside Bill T. Jones since 2006, developing the award winning musical off-Broadway (2008), and on Broadway (2009).
>> more about Maija Garcia

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5/8-5/17
INTERMEDIATE THEATER DANCE
Tuesday & Thursday 7:45-9:15pm

5/8-5/31
BEGINNING TAP
Tuesday 6:00-7:30pm

ADVANCED BEGINNING TAP
Thursday 6:00-7:30pm

RYAN KASPRZAK recently served as the Associate Resident Choreographer and dance captain for the national tour of Billy Elliot, the Musical. Along with his brother, Evan, he has appeared on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance.
>> more about Ryan Kasprzak

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5/14 – 5/18
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE THEATER DANCE
Monday, Wednesday & Friday 2:30-4:15pm

RANDY SKINNER is an award-winning director, choreographer, and performer whose work has been seen on Broadway, National and International tours, and Regional theatres. He received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Astaire nominations for his choreography for 42nd Street.

>> more about Randy Skinner

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5/16 & 5/17
INTERMEDIATE ADVANCED JAZZ
Wednesday & Thursday 12:00-1:30pm

Valerie Salgado is the assistant choreographer for the NBC series “SMASH” produced by Steven Spielberg. She has worked one on one with stars such as Megan Hilty, Uma Thurman, Katharine McPhee, and Debra Messing, to name a few.

She has worked closely as the assistant to choreographer, Joshua Bergasse, for several years.
>> more about Valerie Salgado

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5/22
ADVANCED INTERMEDIATE TAP
Tuesday 11:30am-1:00pm

5/24
ADVANCED TAP
Thursday 7:30-9:00pm

A 2011 Bessie Award winner, Michelle Dorrance is one of the most sought after tap dancers of her generation and “one of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today.” (The New Yorker) Mentored by Gene Medler, Michelle grew up performing with the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble…
>> more about Michelle Dorrance

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5/22-7/5
INTERMEDIATE THEATER DANCE
Tuesday & Thursday 7:45-9:15pm

As a Director/ Choreographer Jacob Brent’s credits include Suessical, Children of Eden, Cinderella, and Big River as well as the workshops of ALICE a musical based on Alice in Wonderland in both New York and London.
>> more about Jacob Brent

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5/27
Open Tap
Sunday 2:00-3:30pm

Chloe Arnold (Dancer/Actress/Director/Choreographer) has established herself across several fields of the industry today. Most recently, she was featured on the cover of Dance Teacher Magazine and as special guest in Global Fusion, a concert in Dubai with 10 of the most accomplished musicians from around the globe.
>> more about Chloe Arnold

Appropriate for Advanced Beginning to Intermediate Advanced level dancers
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5/27
Open Tap
Sunday 3:45-5:15pm

Jason Samuels Smith (performer, choreographer, director) has emerged as a multi-talented leader in the Art form of Tap. He received a Dance Magazine Award as well as an Emmy and American Choreography Award for “Outstanding Choreography” for the Opening number of the Jerry Lewis/MDA Telethon.
>> more about Jason Samuels Smith

Appropriate for Advanced Beginning to Intermediate Advanced level dancers
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6/3 – 6/24
BEGINNING FLAMENCO
Sunday 3:30-5:00pm

INTERMEDIATE FLAMENCO
Sunday 5:00-6:30pm

Born in Buenos Aires and now based in New York City, Sol “La Argentinita” performs and tours with numerous Flamenco dance companies, and has been performing with the Metropolitan Opera for the past two seasons in Zeferelli’s production of La Traviata and the Town Hall for the World Music Institute 20th Aniversary Celebration.
>> more about Sol La Argentinita

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6/6-6/22
BEGINNING THEATER DANCE
Wednesday 1:00-2:30pm

INTERMEDIATE THEATER DANCE
Friday 1:00-2:30pm

Lainie Munro is a New York-based director, choreographer, and performer. She choreographed for designer Christian Louboutin and Piper-Heidsieck champagne for the Fashion’s Night Out 2009 event, choreographing dancers in Louboutin store windows throughout New York City.
>> more about Lainie Munro

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6/19 & 6/21
INTERMEDIATE THEATER DANCE
Tuesday & Thursday 12:30-2:00pm

Bob Richard is the choreographer of Broadway’s top selling Christmas show How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: The Musical. Off Broadway, Bob was honored to work with the York Theatre Company in The Road to Qatar!, the true new musical comedy honoring the road films of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.
>> more about Bob Richard

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6/19-6/30
CLASSICAL BOURNONVILLE REPERTORY & MIME
Fri 4:00-6:00pm & Sat 1:00-3:00pm
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BOURNONVILLE BALLET TECHNIQUE
Tuesday & Thursday 4:30-6:00pm
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In my teaching of the Bournonville School I focus on the technique behind the steps and the many, many details which is hidden in them and the way to perform them as Bournonville would have liked it (as far as we know). I work with the natural grace, the lightness and the softness, strength, and humor behind the steps. In addition, the training requires concentration which helps to develop the focus of the dancers on step combinations and developments. The Barre is based on Vaganova and focused on placements, lengthening, and slow and fast legs. In the center we focus on the Bournonville Schools which consists of some wonderful combinations of steps.

The Choreographic style, Repertory class:
What is so special about The Bournonville style? Dancing Bournonville is just as hard as dancing Petipa or Balanchine. It just demands completely different abilities of the dancer. In other words, the style of Bournonville’s choreography is very special: un-artificial grace, combined with talent of understating even the biggest steps, discretion of mime and heavy dramatic impact. We will work with the repertoire from La Sylphide/ Napoli/ Flower Festival in Genzano/La Ventana/The Kings Volenteers. (A short warm up ( barre) and then repertoire.)

Bournonville Mime class:
In Bournonville’s ballets, nearly all of which are dramatic story ballets, mime plays a significant role and has its own style and form. Bournonville considered that gesture should be simple and natural, almost like the gesture, which accompanies and enhances everyday speech. He expected the artist to express inner feelings and thoughts through outer visible movements, the phrasing of which should be rhythmically clear and precise so that the audience may interpret these feelings as moving pictures to which they made the words themselves. We will work with scenes from Kermesse in Brugge/The Kings Volunteers on Amager/La Sylphide.

Karina Elver was born in 1962 in Copenhagen. She began to dance at the age of three at Andersen & Jensens Danseinstitut on Vesterbro and was accepted as a student at the Royal Danish Ballet School at the age of nine.
>> more about Karina Elver

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