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Black Voices in Dance

Annually in February, as well as at various times throughout the year, Steps on Broadway curates a month of classes dedicated to shining a spotlight on Black Voices in Dance, bringing a global dance community to you. These unique opportunities are one of a kind that allow you to take classes in-person and virtually from these master teachers and icons in the dance community

Spotlight • Saturday, 2/1 • 5:30-7:30pm

TERK LEWIS Int/Adv Contemporary Jazz

  • Most recently Lewis danced in the Lin Manuel Miranda movie, In The Heights
  • Assisted Jae Man Joo in creating Circular for Ailey 2
  • Assisted Jill Johnson on choreographing the opera Crossing which premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music

More about Terk Lewis →
Registration coming soon.

Spotlight • Sunday, 2/2 • 5:00-7:00pm

RENA BUTLER Int/Adv Contemporary

  • Premiered her first work for The National Ballet of Canada celebrating the music of Grammy Award-winning composer John Adams in March 2023
  • Recipient of the prestigious 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Award for Choreography
  • Created works for BalletX, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, GroundWorks DanceTheater, Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Summer Program, and many more

More about Rena Butler →

Spotlight • Monday, 2/3 • 8:00-10:00pm

Tilly Evans-Krueger Int/Adv Contemporary Theater

  • Associate Choreographer, Dance Captain and Ace in THE OUTSIDERS on Broadway
  • 2024 Chita Rivera Award Recipient for Outstanding Dancer in a Broadway Musical
  • Broadway credits include: Moulin Rouge! Off Broadway credits include: Illinois; The Wrong Man; Working: A Musical; The Lucky Ones and Nutcracker Rouge.

More about Tilly Evans-Krueger →

Spotlight • Tuesday, 2/4 • 8:00-10:00pm

MALEEK WASHINGTON Int/Adv Contemporary

  • Has been a member of Camille A. Brown and dancers for 5 seasons
  • Assistant choreographer to Camille A. Brown at the Metropolitan Opera for her directorial debut for Fire shut up In my bones
  • 2022 Princess Grace Award Winner in Choreography

More about Maleek Washington →

Spotlight • Wednesday, 2/5 • 6:30-8:30pm

JAMAR ROBERTS Adv/Int Contemporary

In Studio Only!

  • Former Resident Choreographer Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
  • Won the 2016 Bessie Award for Outstanding Performer
  • Director’s Fellow at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts in the 2020-2021 season

More about Jamar Roberts →

Spotlight • Wednesday, 2/5 • 8:00-10:00pm

DANELLE MORGAN Precision Jazz

  • Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for the Radio City Rockettes
  • Appearances include The Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, among others
  • Recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was a featured dancer in Town & Country Magazine

More about Danelle Morgan →
Registration coming soon.

Guest • Saturday, 2/8 • 9:30-11:00am

FRANCIS LAWRENCE   Adv/Beg Ballet

  • Dance with companies including, the Australian Ballet Company, Grand Rapids Ballet, New Jersey Ballet, and the Dance Theatre of Harlem
  • Diverse repertoire, from classical masterpieces such as Swan Lake, Don Quixote, Sleeping Beauty, Raymonda, and The Nutcracker, to contemporary works
  • Broadway National tour and Australian tour of An American in Paris, I Married An Angel by Joshua Bergasse, and more

More about Francis Lawrence →

Spotlight • Saturday, 2/8 • 5:30-7:30

KAREN GAYLE Int/Adv Modern/Horton

  • Performed works by Earl Mosley, Ronald K. Brown and Tony winner Hinton Battle
  • Choreography commissions include: Marymount Manhattan College, The Harvard Ballet Company, General Mischief Dance Theatre, The Boston Tea Party Opera, and more
  • Artistic director of the xodus dance collective

More about Karen Gayle →

Spotlight • Sunday, 2/9 • 6:15-8:15

JUSTICE MOORE int/Adv Street Jazz

  • Doja Cat X VMAs
  • Hamilton on Broadway, Tour, and Chicago as “The Bullet”
  • Once Upon a One More Time on Broadway

More about Justice Moore →
Registration coming soon.

Spotlight • Monday, 2/10 • 8:00-10:00pm

ELLENORE SCOTT Adv/Int Contemporary Theater

  • Broadway credits include Anne of Green Gables, Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Titanique
  • Other choreography credits include: Single All the Way (Netflix), Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical
  • Performance credits include numerous television shows (Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Smash, Glee!) and was a finalist and All-Star on So You Think You Can Dance?
  • More about Ellenore Scott →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Tuesday, 2/11 • 8:00-10:00pm

    EHIZOJE AZEKE Int/Adv Contemporary Theater

  • Direction/Choreography: Day After Your Departure (HBO) – Choreographer, Lady In The Lake with Natalie Portman (Apple +)
  • Film Performance Credits include: In The Heights, Tick Tick Boom with Lin Manuel Miranda, Bolden
  • Television Performance Credits include: Succession (HBO), Vinyl (HBO), The Get Down (Netflix), Tell Me a Story
  • More about Ehizoje Azeke →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Wednesday, 2/12 • 6:30-8:30pm

    DARRELL GRAND MOULTRIE Adv/Int Contemporary Jazz

  • Recipient of the Princess Grace Choreography Fellowship Award
  • American Ballet Theatre premiered Moultrie’s piece “Indestructible Light.”
  • Created and staged works for Dance Theatre of Harlem, Atlanta Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Cincinnati Ballet, BalletMet Columbus, Ailey 2, and more
  • More about Darrell Grand Moultrie →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Saturday, 2/15 • 6:00-8:00pm

    CLEAR TALENT AGENCY Adv/Int Street Jazz

    COMMERCIAL JAZZ

    • with FATIMA WILSON, Agent
    • Fatima Wilson is currently representing artists working in Choreography & Dance at United Talent Agency
    • with MAYTE NATALIO, Choreographer/Teacher
    • Choreographer credits include Suffs, How To Dance In Ohio

     

    More about Fatima Wilson →
    More about Mayte Natalio →

    Spotlight • Monday, 2/17 • 8:00-10:00pm

    EBONY WILLIAMS Adv/Int Contemporary Performance

    • Emmy Award Winning Choreographer
    • Joined Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet as the company’s first African American female dancer
    • Other credits include In the Heights (film), Jagged Little Pill (Broadway)

    More about Ebony Williams →
    Registration coming soon.

    Guest • Tuesday, 2/18 • 3:30-5:00pm

    JOHN MANZARI Int/Adv Tap

    • Recently appeared in the Broadway Revival of Funny Girl
    • Other credits include The Tap Dance Kid, Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic, 42ND Street, Maurice Hines: Tappin’ Thru Life
    • Television credits include Law & Order SVU, the PBS specials Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future & The Kennedy Center at 50

    More about John Manzari →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Tuesday, 2/18 • 8:00-10:00pm

    YANCY GREENE Open Hip Hop

    • Trained at institutions such as Alvin Ailey, Broadway Dance Center, PMT and EXPG.
    • Credits include Saturday Night Live, FX’s POSE, and 2018’s VMA‘s with Travis Scott.
    • Has taught throughout NYC and in various schools in Brooklyn through CORA dance based in Red Hook Brooklyn

    More about Yancy Greene →

    Spotlight • Wednesday, 2/19 • 8:00-10:00pm

    TOMMY SCRIVENS Int/Adv Theater Jazz

  • Archiving the work of Bob Fosse with the Verdon/ Fosse Estate, and a principal member of American Dance Machine for the 21st Century
  • Performed with Columbus Dance Theater contemporary ballet company, as a guest artist with BalletMet, Columbus, Collide, and Parsons Dance
  • Featured in movies, musicals and TV shows including The Big Gay Musical movie, City Center Encores’ production of “Where’s Charley?” and “Fiorello”
  • More about Tommy Scrivens →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Saturday, 2/22 • 5:30-7:30pm

    SHEILA BARKER Int/Adv Jazz

  • Educator, choreographer, master teacher and a distinctive force of energy in the dance industry
  • Her dancing and choreographing includes soap opera, industrials, music videos and recording artists
  • Has performed on Broadway, Off Broadway and on Television
  • More about Sheila Barker →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Sunday, 2/23 • 5:00-7:00pm

    RENA BUTLER Int/Adv Contemporary

    • Premiered her first work for The National Ballet of Canada celebrating the music of Grammy Award-winning composer John Adams in March 2023
    • Recipient of the prestigious 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Award for Choreography
    • Created works for BalletX, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, GroundWorks DanceTheater, Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Summer Program, and many more

    More about Rena Butler →

    Guest • Monday, 2/24 • 2:00-3:30pm

    MARC SPAULDING Int/Adv Contemporary

    • Faculty, Point Park University
    • Concert and Theatrical performance credits include: Dreamgirls 1st National Tour PHILADANCO, Westside Story International Tour, Donald Byrd/The Group
    • Choreographic works have been presented at Nabla Festival NYC: In The Liminal Space, Point Park University, PHILADANCO- “Danco on Danco” Company Showcase

    More about Marc Spaulding →
    Registration coming soon.

    Guest • Monday, 2/24 • 3:30-5:00pm

    CHANTELLE GOOD Int/Adv Contemporary

    • Currently performing in MJ The Musical (Broadway)
    • Off-Broadway credits include: Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More, Freddie Falls in Love (directed/choreographed by Al Blackstone), Regional: ALIEN/NATION (directed by Michael Arden)
    • Danced for artists including JLo, Snoop Dogg, H.E.R., and Gary Clark Jr.

    More about Chantelle Good →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Monday, 2/24 • 8:00-10:00pm

    KHORI PETINAUD Int/Adv Theater Jazz

    • Broadway Cast of Chicago and Lempicka
    • Part of the Broadway casts of Aladdin and Moulin Rouge! The Musical, Bob Fosse’s DANCIN’
    • Other credits include In the Heights (Kennedy Center), The Color Purple (National Tour), King Kong

    More about Khori Petinaud →
    Registration coming soon.

    Guest • Tuesday, 2/25 • 3:30-5:00pm

    RICHARD YODER Int/Adv Tap

    • Recently seen on Broadway in Once Upon A Mattress
    • Also on Broadway in White Christmas, On the Twentieth Century, Shuffle Along…and all that followed, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady, among others
    • Worked with nearly every Broadway Tap choreographer, including Savion Glover, Randy Skinner, Warren Carlyle and others

    More about Richard Riaz Yoder →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Wednesday, 2/26 • 8:00-10:00pm

    DANELLE MORGAN Precision Jazz

  • Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for the Radio City Rockettes
  • Appearances include The Tony Awards, Saturday Night Live, The Today Show, The Wendy Williams Show, among others
  • Recently appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert and was a featured dancer in Town & Country Magazine
  • More about Danelle Morgan →
    Registration coming soon.

    Spotlight • Thursday, 2/27 • 8:00-10:00pm

    JAMES ALONZO WHITE Int/Adv Street Jazz

    • Choreography credits include: Mad Apple – Cirque Du Soleil, Disney Cruise line, Norwegian Cruises, MSC Cruises, Footloose, Dream Girls, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, among others
    • Released a visual entitled “Brand New Day” featuring NYC’s finest dancers, inspired by the iconic film, The Wiz during the pandemic in 2020
    • James has taught all over the world in places like France, Norway, and Los Angeles

    More about James Alonzo White →
    Registration coming soon.

    Past teachers have included:

    EHIZOJE AZEKE
    SIDRA BELL
    RENA BUTLER
    DIARRA CUMMINGS
    Ja’BOWEN DIXON
    CELINE EDMONDSON
    KENNA MORRIS GARCIA
    KAREN GAYLE
    GERMAINE GOODSON
    DERICK GRANT
    YANCY GREENE

    TAMISHA A. GUY
    LLOYD KNIGHT
    TERK LEWIS
    JOHN MANZARI
    AMY MITCHELL
    MAYTE NATALIO
    BRANDON O’NEAL
    KHORI PETINAUD
    BRIANA REED
    JAMAR ROBERTS
    DWIGHT RHODEN

    MICKEY SAKAI
    COURTNEY SAULS
    ELLENORE SCOTT
    JANETE SILVA
    GLENN ALLEN SIMS
    CALEB SMITH
    ROBERT TAYLOR JR.
    MALEEK WASHINGTON
    JASON WILLIAMS
    RICHARD YODER