Timothy Kasper is a dancer, singer, actor, director, choreographer and
teacher. His work has been seen in New York, on national and international tours, in regional theatres and at Jacob's Pillow. His staging and performing credits include A Chorus Line, West Side Story, Phantom of the Opera, Chess, Cabaret and Fiddler on the Roof. These are among the more than 50 productions on which he has collaborated. As a facilitator, he has privately coached a wide range of performing artists, including opera singers, dancers, actors, DJs, as well as swimmers and other athletes. His eclectic approach to teaching is a result of having studied many different styles of yoga, Pilates, Gyrotonics, acting and dance, as well as having worked closely with physical therapists and other movement specialists. His philosophy includes the premise that yoga is a metaphor for "Living." Pilates is grounded in the tradition of yoga, and together they form a complimentary modality that proves invaluable to any artist who seeks to cultivate physical freedom, stability and articulation, and emotional access, and strives to live and work "in the moment". Through master classes, he has shared his philosophy with university students at Hofstra, Oberlin, Western, Carnegie Mellon and NYU. He has spent summers teaching for The Polish National Dance Theatre's International Dance Intensive, has taught Movement for Actors at the Strasberg Institute in New York City and has served as full-time faculty at the Hartt School of Music and Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut. He performed on the Inside/Out stage with 8 & Ah 1 in 1999 and designed the costumes for the very first Jazz on Jazz created by Chet Walker and presented in the Doris Duke Studio Theatre in 2004. This is Kasper's second season on the Jazz/Musical Theatre Dance Program faculty.
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