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Jourdan Epstein is a professional performer, choreographer and educator based in NYC. After graduating from NYU with a degree in Dance Medicine and Science, Jourdan joined Complexions Contemporary Ballet under Direction of Dwight Rhoden and Desmond Richardson where she danced for four seasons. Jourdan has since explored the worlds of concert dance, dance on camera, and musical theater both in front of and behind the scenes. Ms Epstein was in the original cast of The Prince of Egypt, where she served as Dance Captain, she assisted Andy Blankenbuehler on choreography in Only Gold Off Broadway, and works closely with Marguerite Derricks. Her television credits include: The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, Dispatches from Elsewhere, Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Tonight Show, Evil, The Flight Attendant, NBC Upfronts and The In The Heights movie. Other company credits include: The Metropolitan Opera, Bad Boys of Dance, Company XIV and The Radio City Rockettes. Jourdan is on faculty at The Joffrey Ballet School in NYC and Complexions Academy, it is her joy to share her love of movement through performing, educating and choreographing whenever she gets the chance.

Class Description

This class runs like a contemporary combo class, with a focus on classical technique fused into contemporary ballet movement. Dancers will start at the barre, warming up the muscles and bones to support our center movement. Barre will focus on stability of the legs and core, freedom and expression of the upper body, articulation of the spine, specificity of footwork, and finding center vs off center. In the second half of the class students will learn a center phrase including turns, jumps, extensions and dynamics, to a piece of music where they can apply and expand upon concepts from the barre, including the use of rhythm, musicality and expression.

Cori Jo Swanson

Cori Jo Swanson is a New York City-based creative. Her expertise spans every facet of the entertainment industry, including creative direction, choreography, casting, development, and performance. Cori has produced shows at The Producer’s Club in NYC, installed several casts for Royal Caribbean International as part of the design and costuming team, and was the Associate Choreographer for Cabaret: The Musical (Arden Theater, PA).

Cori worked in the casting department for RWS Entertainment Group and Binder Casting for 4 years, specializing in casting dancers for Holland America Line’s “Step One Dance Company,” Virgin Voyages, Carnival Cruise Line, Cunard Line, Hershey Park, Winter Fest Kings Dominion, and more.

Now a Co-Founder of Creative Streak Entertainment, Cori delivers unmatched live entertainment for corporate, nightlife, and theme park, & cruise ship clients. Through Creative Streak Entertainment (CSE), Cori provided Creative Direction & casting services for the grand opening of Tin Building by Jean-Georges in Seaport NYC, created custom shows for SoHo House NYC and Hard Rock Hotel Times Square, and more. Currently, Cori is the Associate Choreographer and providing casting services, through CSE, for “SPLASH! Waterworks Parade” under the creative direction of Marilyn Magness, which will tour multiple Six Flags Theme Parks!

Class Description
Focus on your training in a supportive and welcoming environment. Each session begins with a thorough warm-up to prepare your body, followed by across-the-floor progressions that are key for refining and maintaining strong technique. The class then dives into a fun and challenging combo, giving you the chance to integrate your developing technique with musicality and unique style.

Cam Loeser

Camden is a New York based performer, teacher and choreographer, and an alumni of the NYU Tisch Dance program and the Jacob’s Pillow Musical Theater program. Camden currently acts as Resident Director/Assistant Choreographer for the National Tour of Chicago, and acted as the Swing/Dance Captain for the UK Touring Production of Chicago’s limited engagement in Tokyo in 2022. Camden also served as Tour Choreographer for the National Tour of Finding Neverland in 2018 & 2019, and Dance Captain for the National Tour of Pippin in 2017.

For the past four years Camden had the privilege of acting as Chet Walker’s associate, working closely alongside Chet teaching and creating work across the globe. Camden assisted Chet in reconstructing the Broadway Revival of Pippin for the first Japanese language production in Tokyo in 2019, and reset Pippin on Chet’s behalf in Australia in 2020, as well as again in Tokyo in 2022. Camden assisted Chet in teaching in the style of jazz dance pioneer Jack Cole in New York as well as in London, and worked with Chet to develop his original show Jack Cole The Musical, which Camden, along with Chet’s husband Jack Gill and writers Shaun Mckenna and Guy Kitchenn, will be moving forward with in Chet’s honor.

Camden is deeply passionate about celebrating Chet’s profound impact on the theater dance community by keeping his voice alive and furthering his devoted work preserving and sharing the legacy of Jack Cole. In doing so, Camden hopes to engage artists from across the globe in a deeper understanding and appreciation for where this art form comes from and how we are all intrinsically linked through the universality of jazz and theater dance.

Linda Kent

Linda Kent earned her B.S. degree from The Juilliard School. She was Principal Dancer with both the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Paul Taylor Dance Company performing internationally for over 22 years.

Ms. Kent has restaged Mr. Taylor’s works for dance companies around the world including the Joffrey Ballet, the Bat Dor Company, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, La Scala Opera Ballet, Purchase College and The Juilliard School. She has also restaged works by Alvin Ailey and David Parsons.

Television appearances include several Ailey Specials and five Taylor programs for “Dance in America.” Ms Kent appears in the recent film Ailey, currently showing on American Masters on PBS.

Ms. Kent has taught at the Taylor School since its inception in 1983 as well as Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival, University of Illinois, Wake Forest and New York State Summer School of the Arts and Steps. In 1992, Ms. Kent was the first modern dancer invited to teach at the Bolshoi Ballet School in Moscow. From 2001 through its 100th Anniversary season in 2013, she was Director of Dance at Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. For P-M’s New Works Festival Ms Kent commissioned original work by Robert Battle, Kyle Abraham, Camille A. Brown, Jessica Lang and Peter Chu among others.

Ms. Kent joined the dance faculty at Juilliard in 1984. In addition, she has taught and choreographed for the Juilliard Summer Dance Program, which she helped found in 1995. She retired from Juilliard in June 2021 as Dance Faculty Emerita. Ms. Kent began teaching at Steps in 2019.

Cathy Fogelman

Cathy Fogelman is a current company member of American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21). A native New Yorker, she received much of her early theater dance training as a teenager with Lee Theodore, founder of the original American Dance Machine and subsequently with Bob Tucker, whom she would substitute for at Broadway Dance Center and Steps On Broadway. She has taught courses at Hampshire College and Smith College as well as master classes and conservatory classes with performances at Steps On Broadway.

Some of her favorite performing credits include: ADM21 at The Joyce Theater NYC, West Side Story as Anybody’s, Guggenheim Works and Process (On The Town, Jerome Robbins 30th Anniversary), Barnum, Sugar Babies, Sesame Street Live, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Dance Machine International in NYC and in Japan with Takarazuka Revue. She has also choreographed works including Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, Off- Broadway.

Cathy has been fortunate to work with or assist many notable Broadway choreographers, performers and directors including: Donna McKechnie, Wayne Cilento, Robert LaFosse, Cady Huffman, Nick Garr and BobTucker.

Cathy is passionate about teaching and passing on the invaluable information that she received to the next generation of dancers, so is very excited to be currently teaching for ADM21 at Steps On Broadway.

Gregory Dolbashian

GREGORY DOLBASHIAN – Born and raised in New York City, Gregory received his dance training at the Alvin Ailey School, then graduated cum laude from SUNY Purchase dance conservatory.

He debuted his own company, The DASH Ensemble, in December 2010 at The JOYCE SoHo. DASH Company performance credits include The JOYCE Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York Live Arts, Guggenheim Works and Process Series, Kaatsbaan, Joe’s Pub, Central Park Summerstage, Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Biennale in Madison Square Park, Bryant Park Dance Fest, as well as domestic touring all over the U.S. including Dallas, L.A., and North Carolina.

Gregory, in partnership with dance education specialist Lindsey Pettus, is also the co-founder of The DASH Academy. He has been commissioned for original works by American Ballet Theater, including exclusive creations for Jeffrey Cirio, Daniil Simkin, and Hee Seo. Ballet commissions also include Atlanta Ballet, St. Louis Ballet, and Ballet Austin. He was the recipient of the highly selective Footprints commission at American Dance Festival, and most recently for Limon Dance Company’s newly formed Limon 2. Awards for Choreography include Hubbard Street 2 International Competition, Ballet Austin’s New American Talent, and Northwest Dance Project’s Pretty Creatives. Commissions for Contemporary/ Rep companies include LA Contemporary Dance Co., Owen/Cox in Kansas City, Dark Circles CD in Dallas, TU Dance in MPLS and Northwest Dance Project in Portland, OR. His collegiate and training program commissions include Juilliard, Princeton, Point Park, LINES Ballet, BODYTRAFFIC Summer Study, MOVENYC YP & S.W.E.A.T programs, NYU, SUNY Purchase, Earl Mosely’s Diversity of Dance, University of Minnesota, Fordham/Ailey, Montclair State, and SAM Houston State. Faculty positions include Broadway Dance Center, Gibney Dance, The Martha Graham School, Ballet Hispanico, Dallas Black Dance Theater, and Peridance Capezio Center.

Adjunct positions held at SUNY Purchase and The Hartt School. He has conducted multiple masterclasses around the country including Juilliard, NYU, UNCSA, The Hartt School, Ballet Hispanico, UC Irvine, SUNY Purchase, Point Park, Booker T Washington HSPVA, OCSA and HSPVA in Houston. In addition, Gregory, alongside fellow choreographer Loni Landon, is the co-founder of The PlaygroundNYC, a choreographic initiative that was voted 25 to Watch in 2013 by Dance Magazine.

photo: Joseph Heitman

Earl Mosley

Fredrick Earl Mosley is Founder/Director of Diversity of Dance Inc., including programs such as Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts (EMIA), Hearts of Men, and Dancing Beyond. A part of EMDOD’s mission is not only to educate and entertain but also to use dance to enhance and enrich lives, even in the most adverse circumstances. EMIA, a four-week annual residential summer intensive began in 2006, is held at Hofstra University in Hempstead, Long Island. Hearts of Men uses dance to empower and cultivate a positive environment where men of all ages can bond in a community of brotherly love.

Mr. Mosley has applied his philosophy of “giving back” in the creation of a winter program called Earl Mosley’s Dancing Beyond, A benefit for Dance Against Cancer. Following EMIA 2020 ONLINE’s outstanding summer, Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance presented EMIA FALL 2020 ONLINE, which offered10 weeks of classes for dancers during these struggling and virtual times. In 2021 EMDOD also established the Dance Is Activism Film Festival in response to the push for change in our social, racial, gender inequitable built-in systems that target mostly black and brown citizens. The festival gave a platform for dancers, choreographers and film makers to come together and express their art and voices of activism to stand up, speak out and make change. EMIA 2021 In person nonresidential program will take place in NYC, June 21- july3.

Mr. Mosley believes in diversity, not only in art, but also the life experiences that each dancer brings to the process of creating dance that entertains, educates and heals the human spirit. For more information please visit diversityofdance.org.

Chryssie Whitehead

A highly experienced triple arts performer & educator, Chryssie Whitehead-Disbrow has had an accomplished career in film, television, and theatre spanning over 20 years. Chryssie began her career as a dancer for the Rockettes right out of high school and made her Broadway debut in the revival of A Chorus Line.

Her additional Broadway credits include: Velma in Chicago (understudy, performed), Lola in Damn Yankees, Cassie in A Chorus Line, Kathy in Company and Bombalurina in Cats. Her multiple film and television credits include: Grey’s Anatomy, Happy Endings, In Plain Sight, Switched at Birth, Castle, The Mentalist, Warehouse 13, Private Practice, Boston Public, Revenge of the Bridesmaids (with Raven-Symone) and this Christmas’s Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story.

In addition to performing, she has directed and/or choreographed productions of Chicago, Into the Woods, Shrek, Grease, and Beauty and the Beast. She teaches and directs on the musical theatre faculty at AMDA as well as online as a Mentor with her performing arts educational company, www.BroadwayArtsCommunity.com.

Isaac Martin Lerner

Isaac Martin Lerner is a New York City based dancer, choreographer, and teacher. His background is in Classical Modern Dance and Classical Ballet which he received at The Hartt School under the tutelage of Stephen Pier and Nina Watt. After moving to New York he found an abundance of freelance work most notably with David Parker’s The Bang Group and Cameron Mckinney’s Kizuna Dance. Since then he has made a name for himself on stage internationally, in the studio as a faculty teacher with Gibney Dance Center and Adelphi University, behind the scenes as a choreographer on large scale opera productions, and behind the lens as the film editor at Retrograde Studios.

Zoey Anderson

Zoey Anderson (Dancer) was born and raised in Utah, where she trained in contemporary, ballet, jazz and ballroom dance at Center Stage. She was the ballroom national smooth champion in 2010. Zoey graduated cum laude from Marymount Manhattan College in 2015 with a BFA in Ballet under the direction of Katie Langan.

She has performed works by Dwight Rhoden, Lar Lubovitch and Aszure Barton, among others. In 2013, Zoey performed with Nikolais Louis in the Yang Liping International Dance Festival in Kunming China. Other credits include the Broadway premiere gala of On The Town, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Dancing With The Stars webisodes, and Macy’s Passport Tour with P. Diddy. Zoey was nominated for the Outstanding Performer Bessie Award for her sustained achievement in Parsons Dance and Clive Barnes winner. Zoey joined the company in 2015.

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