Our Popular Spotlight Series is back In-Studio with limited spaces as well as on-line.
Your chance to dance with a different 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.
Thursday, October 28 • 8:00-10:00pm • Jessica Castro • Int Heels
- TOURS: Beyonce, Jennifer Hudson, Janet Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Pharell, The Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Mariah Carey, Kelly Rowland, Will Smith, Mary J Blige.
- Theater & Film: Fuerzabruta, The Whiz Live (NBC), The Greatest Showman
- Superbowl shows: Janet Jackson & Beyonce
- → more about Jessica Castro
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Monday, November 1 • 8:00-10:00pm • LLOYD KNIGHT Martha Graham Dance Company • Int Modern/Graham
- Broadway credits include DANCIN’, Sophisticated Ladies, The Tap Dance Kid, Big Deal
- National Tours of Sweet Charity, Honky Tonk Nights, Guys and Dolls, among others
- Principal Dancer for The Martha Graham Dance Company
- → more about Lloyd Knight
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Thursday, November 4 • 8:00-10:00pm • SUZI TAYLOR • Int/Adv Contemporary
- Has set work on companies in Tel Aviv, Rio, Glasgow, Toronto, Scotland, and Brazil
- Has been with NYCDA since its inception
- Internationally recognized master teacher and choreographer
- → more about Suzi Taylor
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Monday, November 8 • 8:00pm-10:00pm • DESMOND RICHARDSON • Adv/Int Contemporary
Thursday, November 11 • 8:00-10:00pm • JOSH BERGASSE • Adv/Int Theater Jazz
- TV – “Smash” (Emmy Award for Choreography), SYTYCD
- Choreographer – NYCC Encores! I Married an Angel, Little Me, and It’s a Bird…It’s a Plane…It’s Superman
- Broadway – Willy Wonka, Gigi, On the Town; Off-Broadway – Smokey Joe’s
- → more about Josh Bergasse
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Monday, November 22 • 8:00-10:00pm • BRYAN KNOWLTON • Int/Adv Theater Dance
- Starred on Broadway in the Revival of “A CHORUS LINE”
- Earned multiple Helen Hayes Nominations including Outstanding Lead Actor
- Collaborated with artists ranging from Meryl Streep, Sally Struthers, Savion Glover to Mario Lopez on “Dancing With Stars.”
- → more about Bryan Knowlton
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Monday, November 29 • 8:00-10:00pm • CHRYSSIE WHITEHEAD • Int/Adv Jazz
- Made her Broadway debut in the revival of A Chorus Line.
- Additional Broadway credits include: Velma in Chicago (understudy, performed), Lola in Damn Yankees, Kathy in Company and Bombalurina in Cats.
- Film and TV credits include: Grey’s Anatomy, Happy Endings, In Plain Sight, The Mentalist, Boston Public, and more
- → more about Chryssie Whitehead
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Monday, December 6• 8:00pm-10:00pm • TERK LEWIS • Adv/Int Contemporary
- 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
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