In 2008, Katie became a Radio City Rockette and in her 15 years with the company, has held the role of assistant dance captain, swing, dance captain and assistant choreographer. As a Rockette, Katie performed at The Macy\u2019s Thanksgiving Day Parade, The Rockefeller Center Tree Lighting, America\u2019s Got Talent, The Annual White House Christmas Party and The Today Show. In 2015 and 2016, Katie helped develop, choreograph and stage the NY Spring Spectacular and the NY Spectacular alongside Warren Carlyle and Mia Michaels. As an assistant choreographer, Katie helped direct and choreograph for the Tony Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, USO Partnership Performances, America\u2019s Got Talent, The Kacey Musgraves Christmas Special and a Hallmark Channel Movie \u201cA Holiday Spectacular\u201d. She has had the honor to serve as rehearsal director and assistant to Linda Haberman with The Verdon Fosse\u00ae Legacy\u2019s \u201cSweet Gwen Suite\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
She is the co-founder of The Precision Dance Collective (www.precisiondancecollective.com) which hosts monthly workshops and annual performances with a focus on precision dance training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Katie is currently a choreographer in New York City. Her work was recently performed for Pace University\u2019s Commercial Dance DanceSpace Performance, BDC Professional Semester and Steps On Broadway Industry Showcase. She is on faculty at Steps on Broadway, Broadway Dance Center and is an adjunct professor at Marymount Manhattan College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Class Description<\/strong>
Most importantly, Katie\u2019s class is comfortable, safe, and fun. Because she creates this type of environment in every class, dancers can advance their education and work on high level precision jazz challenges and technique without any added or unnecessary pressure that does not facilitate technical growth. Katie\u2019s class is best for dancers who want to learn and perform in a manner that reflects the modern day artistic and directive range of precision jazz. Students will not just learn one style of precision jazz or one technique to dance in \u201cprecision.\u201d Rather, students will gain experience in the classroom rooted in the rich history and evolution of precision jazz while learning work within the variety of dance genres that, more often than ever in modern day, find their way to the precision form on stage, tours, music videos, theater, commercials, and more! The diversity of the precision jazz experience in Katie\u2019s class reflects her belief that there is not just one way to be a professional dancer, not only one body type that should be a professional dancer, nor only one type of artist that can succeed in the dance industry.
With an emphasis on learning details, quality and musicality, Katie encourages all of her students to take the learning process into other classes to improve their ability to learn quickly and retain choreography.
All dancers are welcome in Katie\u2019s class, from rookie dancers to well seasoned veteran performers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36613,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"discipline":[16,12],"class_list":["post-36610","faculty","type-faculty","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","discipline-academy-guest-teachers","discipline-jazz"],"acf":{"first_name":"Katie","last_name":"Walker","display_name":"","thumbnail":36611,"reel":"","bullet_points":"Former Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for Radio City Rockettes\r\nCo-Founder: Precision Dance Collective\r\nAdjunct Professor - Marymount Manhattan College"},"yoast_head":"\n