Our Spotlight Series is In-Studio with limited spaces as well as on-line.
Your chance to dance with special guest artists!
Artistic Directors, Choreographers, & Teachers from the concert stage, Broadway, television & film
All class times are EST.
Minimum age for Spotlight classes is 15.
Monday, March 27 • 8:15-10:15pm • MIKE BAERGA • Int/Adv Commercial Jazz
- Cast of Bad Cinderella
- Choreographed and Produced for HBO’S EMMY Nominated Reality Show, We’re Here
- Performance Credits Include Ne-Yo, Vanessa Williams, CL (K-Pop,) Gavin Creel, Disney’s “Better Nate Than Ever,” and many more
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Tuesday, March 28 • 8:15-10:15pm • ADRIAN LEE • Int/Adv Jazz
- Assisted and/or danced for Andy Blankenbuehler, Al Blackstone, Mandy Moore, Dee Caspary, Travis Wall and Sonya Tayeh
- Appeared dancing on FX’s Fosse/Verdon, The Tony Awards, Glee, America’s Got Talent and Dancing With the Stars
- Part of the Broadway company of Wicked and was on the National Tour of An American in Paris
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Wednesday, March 29 • 8:15-10:15pm • KRYSTYNA RESAVY • Int/Adv Theater Jazz
- Assisted Tony-award winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli on the Broadway musical, The Cher Show
- Associate choreographer of Mamma Mia! at New London Barn Playhouse
- Favorite performance credit includes dancing in the film Isn’t It Romantic starring Rebel Wilson
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Thursday, March 30 • 8:15-10:15pm • CHLOE LaFLEUR & CHRIS JAROSZ
Adv/Int Contemporary Fusion
- Credits include Scranton Shakespeare Festival, Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Associate Choreography for Off Broadway Musicals and more
- Worked as an Associate Choreographer to Brooke Wendle
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- Original cast member role in Cirque Du Soleil’s Viva ELVIS! in Las Vegas
- Featured dancer on television shows/commercials such as “Glee”, “Fuller House”, ABC’s “The Secret Life of an American teenager”, and was a dancer in the films LA LA Land and Behind the Candelabra
- → more about Christopher Jarosz
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Friday, March 31 • 8:15-10:15pm • 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
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Monday, April 3 • 8:15-10:15pm • KARLA PUNO GARCIA • Int/Adv Jazz
- Choreographer of the Starz Network series Power Book III: Raising Kanaan
- Favorite choreography credits include scenes in the Netflix film Tick, Tick … BOOM! (Lin Manuel Miranda); ENCORES Off-Center production of GONE MISSING; Somewhere, the new Duncan Sheik musical Noir, among others
- Associate Choreographer to Sergio Trujillo for the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors and 2021 Tony Awards
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Monday, April 3 • 8:15-10:15pm • ANDREW BLACK • Int/Adv Tap
- Favorite Credits include: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Asst. Choreographer, Asst. Director, Dance Captain and Swing), The First National Tour of 42nd Street (Bert Barry/ Pat Denning us)
- Performed from the stage of Carnegie Hall to the streets of Tokyo’s DisneySea
- Choreographed over forty different shows and taught workshops for schools, theaters, and festivals across the planet
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Tuesday, April 4 • 8:15-10:15pm • ELLENORE SCOTT • Adv/Int Contemporary Jazz
- Broadway credits include 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?
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Wednesday, April 5 • 8:15-10:15pm • KATIE DRABLOS • Int/Adv Contemporary
- Al Blackstone’s Associate Choreographer on productions of Oklahoma, Hairspray, Pippin, and others
- Performed in Al Blackstone’s original works; Happy We’ll Be and Freddie Falls in Love
- In 2022 she directed, choreographed, and performed in her first full-length show “35: a celebration of being alive”
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Thursday, April 6 • 8:15-10:15pm • LUIS SALGADO Adv/Int Latin Fusion
- Latin Assistant Choreographer of the Tony Award winning musical In The Heights
- Performed on Broadway in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and In The Heights
- Film credits include American Gangster, Dirty Dancing 2, Enchanted and Step Up 2: The Streets
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Friday, April 7 • 6:30-8:30pm • CECILIA MARTA • Adv/Int Jazz Soul Sessions
- Founder, Artistic Director/Choreographer of Cecilia Marta Dance Projects
- Casting Partner to Cirque du Soleil
- Performed with Grammy winners Al Jarreau, Cissy Houston, the prolific poet/musician Gil Scott-Heron, and many more
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Monday, April 10 • 7:00-9:00pm • SARA BRIANS • Int/Adv Broadway Tap
- Resident Choreographer for Matilda The Musicaly & Billy Elliot The Musicaly
- Directed and choreographed Rock of Ages at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, choreographed Guys and Dolls, Jesus Christ Superstar & Godspell
- Received the Outstanding Choreography Award by the NY Innovative Theatre Award for her work on Follies at the Astoria Performing Arts Center
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Monday, April 10 • 8:15-10:15pm • THAYNE JASPERSON • Int/Adv Theater Jazz
- Original Broadway cast of Hamilton
- Also seen in Newsies (Astaire Award Nominee), Matilda, Finding Neverland on Broadway
- Film credits include Hamilton, High School Musical 1 & 2, MTV’s American Mall
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Wednesday, April 12 • 8:15-10:15pm • JONATHAN LEE • Int/Adv Hip Hop
- Backup singer, dancer, and choreographer for Madonna, Gloria Estefan, Mariah Carey, Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Pitbull, among others
- Theatre credits include Once On This Island, The Wiz, West Side Story, The King & I, and Miss Saigon
- Film/TV credits include The Detour, Chapelle’s Show, Good Morning America, ABC News Now, The View, and more
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Friday, April 14 • 6:30-8:30pm • LYRIK CRUZ • Adv/Int Latin Jazz
- Featured dancer and in Warner Brothers In The Heights
- Choreographer on the feature film SHINE for which he was nominated for numerous awards
- Creative director and choreographer for Norman Lear’s IMAGEN AWARDS
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Saturday, April 15 • 4:15-6:15pm • NOEL BAJANDAS • Int/Adv Commercial Street
- Worked with recording artists such as Madonna, Adam Lambert, Toni Braxton, Miley Cyrus, Eminem, Snoop Dog and Thalia to name a few.
- Film: LA LA LAND, In The Heights and The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run
- Choreographer for the EMMY winning HULU show East Los High
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Saturday, April 15 • 4:45-6:45pm • LLOYD CULBREATH Int/Adv Theater Jazz
- Broadway credits include DANCIN’, Sophisticated Ladies, The Tap Dance Kid, Big Deal, National Tour of Sweet Charity, Honky Tonk Nights, Guys and Dolls
- He was Assistant Choreographer on On The Town and Man of La Mancha, and Dance Captain for the National Tour of Chicago
- A veteran Fosse dancer, has worked in the entertainment industry for over 30 years
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Monday, April 17 • 8:15-10:15pm • JESSICA LEE GOLDYN • Adv/Int Theater Jazz
- Currently featured as ‘Nini’ in Moulin Rouge! The Musical
- Other Broadway credits include the Revival of A Chorus Line, Hello Dolly, Finding Neverland, and Tuck Everlasting
- Played the role of Lindsay in the film King Of Staten Island, directed by Judd Apatow
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Monday, April 18 • 8:15-10:15pm • NICHOLAS CUNNINGHAM • Int/Adv Theater Jazz
- Currently a swing/solo dancer in The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway
- Performance highlights include High Button Shoes in the NYC directed by John Rando and choreographed by Sarah O’Gleby, Bernstein’s Candide with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, directed by Kevin Newberry, Bernstein’s Mass for PBS Great Performances
- Recently Cunningham has worked as a presenter on The Wendy Williams Show,and performed in American Horror Story
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Wednesday, April 19 • 8:15-10:15pm • NOEL BAJANDAS • Int/Adv Commercial Street
- Worked with recording artists such as Madonna, Adam Lambert, Toni Braxton, Miley Cyrus, Eminem, Snoop Dog and Thalia to name a few.
- Film: LA LA LAND, In The Heights and The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run
- Choreographer for the EMMY winning HULU show East Los High
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Thursday, April 20 • 8:15-10:15pm • LIZZ PICINI • Int Theater Jazz
- Recent performing credits include Guys and Dolls at The Kennedy Center, Chicago and Singin’ in the Rain at The MUNY
- Roles played around the country include such as Cassie (A Chorus Line), Virtue (Anything Goes), Gertie Cummings (Oklahoma!), and many more
- Has been Assistant/Associate Choreographer for some of the industry’s best: Denis Jones, Ricky Hinds, Parker Esse, Al Blackstone, Rommy Sandhu, and others
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