The Spotlight Series

• Award winning choreographer and creative director
• Danced alongside Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez, Gwen Stefani and more
• Choreographed for Cher, A Great Big World, Todrick Hall and countless others

• Richard is an award winning director/choreographer based in both NYC and London
• Broadway and West End credits include Elf (Associate Chor.), Company starring Patti LuPone (Associate Chor.), Come From Away (Associate Chor.), and many more
• Television credits include Encore! (Disney+), Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, America’s Got Talent, Bring It, Good Afternoon America (feat.Liza Minnelli)

• Former soloist with Ballet Torino, Aszure Barton & Artists, Metropolitan Opera, and Complexions
• Created original works for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, New York City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Hubbard Street II, BalletX, among others
• Awards and accolades include a Princess Grace Foundation-USA award in choreography, Alvin Ailey New Directions Choreography Lab, Joffrey Academy of Dance’s Winning Works

• Awarded the New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellowship at the School of American Ballet in 2024
• Featured dance soloist in “Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution” created by actress Glenn Close and musician Ted Nash
• Commissions include work for Dallas Black Dance Theatre, Marymount Manhattan College, PACE University, Philadanco-The Philadelphia Dance Company

• 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

• Choreography credits include Broken Bride Off Broadway, Dance Lab New York with mentorship under Ellenore Scott, Rebel Rebel: The Many Lives of David Bowie, among others
• Recently put up his own Dance Narrative at Symphony Space in New York City
• Founded his own dance company entitled ‘treadFAST,’ which has already performed numerous sold out shows in NYC

• Danced under world renowned choreographers Keone and Mari, Brian Friedman, Kyle Hanagami, and more.
• Founded Shinsa the Collective
• Received a residency from ArtX in New York City to extend Shinsa’s latest show called “LIMBO: The Echo”

• Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and Astaire nominations for his choreography for 42nd Street
• Performances credits include A Chorus Line, Gypsy, Dames at Sea, Hello Dolly, and many more
• Other shows include State Fair (Outer Critics nomination), Ain’t Broadway Grand (Tony, Outer Critics nominations), After the Night and the Music, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Tony, Drama Desk nominations)

• Broadway: currently Buena Vista Social Club, Hamilton, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’
• TV/Film: West Side Story (Dir. Steven Spielberg), Better Late Than Never, & Peter Pan Live!
• Regional: Sacramento Music Circus (Ren McCormick; Footloose/Usnavi; In The Heights)

• Salgado Productions, Founder/Artistic Director
• Director/Choreographer of the 2nd On your feet National Tour, and Associate Director/Choreographer of Cirque Du Soleil Paramour
• Latin Assistant Choreographer of the Tony Award winning musical In The Heights

• NYC based professional dancer, educator, adjudicator and dance podcast host; RWS Global Audition Choreographer
• Professional credits: West Side Story International Tour, FX’s Fosse/Verdon, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway (The Muny), In The Heights (PCLO), Finding Neverland National Tour, Radio City Christmas
• Dance Convention Faculty for 10+ years and recently taught in Brazil at the 16th annual Congresso de Jazz Dance.

• Recently appeared in the White Christmas at Theater Under the Stars and 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

• Co-Choreographer, Take The Lead
• Dance Magazine Honoree, Broadway Choreographer, MTEAF Founder
• Collaborated with Diane Paulus on “The Donkey Show” and Disney’s “Golden Mickeys”

• Former soloist with Ballet Torino, Aszure Barton & Artists, Metropolitan Opera, and Complexions
• Created original works for Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, New York City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Hubbard Street II, BalletX, among others
• Awards and accolades include a Princess Grace Foundation-USA award in choreography, Alvin Ailey New Directions Choreography Lab, Joffrey Academy of Dance’s Winning Works

• Choreograpy Credits: Floyd Collins Broadway, Giordano Dance Chicago
• Associate Choreographer: BOOP! The Musical
• Credits: Original Casts of Hamilton, SpongeBob, Hands on a Hardbody, In The Heights

• Bye Bye Birdie at the Kennedy Center, Associate Choreographer
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
• Stage Mother (A New Musical), Associate Director/Choreographer

• Founder, Exactitude Dance
• Former Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain Radio City Rockettes
• Credits include Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Today Show, Dancing With the Stars, America’s Got Talent, Saturday Night Live, and more

• TV – “Smash” (Emmy Award for Choreography), SYTYCD
• Choreographed the revival of On The Town on Broadway where he received an Astaire Award and was nominated for TONY, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Awards
• Off Broadway credits include Sweet Charity, Cagney (Drama Desk, Astaire, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for choreography), Bomb-Itty of Errors, and Captain Louie

• 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

• Worked with Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Paula Abdul, Demi Lavato, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé…
• Original cast of Showstoppers at the Wynn Hotel choreographed by Marguerite Derricks
• Worked on the X-factor UK with Brian Freidman

Minimum age for this class is 16.

• Credits include the MTV Video Music Awards, the feature films La La Land, VOX LUX, and In the heights; GLEE, The Academy Awards and many more
• Completed 6 national tours with Travis Wall’s Shaping Sound and performed with Stacey Tookey’s company Still Motion
• Recently, she joined Peter Chu’s company Chuthis

• Currently in Schmigadoon!
• Broadway credits include White Christmas, On the Twentieth Century, Shuffle Along…and all that followed, Hello Dolly, My Fair Lady
• Worked with nearly every Broadway Tap choreographer, including Savion Glover, Randy Skinner, Warren Carlyle, Chris Gattelli

• 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

• Assistant Choreographer – Chess
• Assisted top choreographers in productions including Chess on Broadway, Anne of Green Gables workshop, I Can Get it for You Wholesale Off-Broadway debut, A Walk on the Moon at George Street Playhouse
• Choreographed the opening celebration gala for the Broadway production of Once Upon a One More Time

• Celine Edmondson is an assistant Coach of the Brooklynettes
• Performed with Maluma, Meghan Trainor, Lil Kim, DJ Khaled, and more
• Currently working on exciting film and television projects as well as teaching

• Made his Broadway debut in A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical, as Banjo Ben/Lincoln Perry u/s
• New York Times Critics’ Pick production of Jelly’s Last Jam at New York City Center
• Regional work includes Sacramento Music Circus, Pittsburgh CLO, Bucks County Playhouse, The Lexington Theatre Company, Forestburgh Playhouse

• 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

• Credits include the Broadway cast of “Irving Berlin’s White Christmas”, “On The Town” (Barrington Stage), “My One And Only” and many more
• TV credits include Saturday Night Live, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and The Late Late Show with James Corden, among others
• Currently on faculty with NYCDA teaching tap, at the Joffrey Ballet School teaching Musical Theater, and the Artistic Director of The Dance Academy of North Jersey

• Assistant choreographer for Susan Misner and assistant choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler on the hit television series FX’s Fosse/Verdon.
• Worked on the Netflix series Halston doing preproduction with Choreographer Susan Misner
• She has performed in 11 Broadway shows, and danced in the films Rock of Ages and the Oscar award winner, Chicago

• Worked with Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Paula Abdul, Demi Lavato, Christina Aguilera, Beyoncé…
• Original cast of Showstoppers at the Wynn Hotel choreographed by Marguerite Derricks
• Worked on the X-factor UK with Brian Freidman

Ages 16+

• 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

• Performer and Rehearsal Director for Punchdrunk’s SLEEP NO MORE in NYC
• Formerly a member of Visceral Dance Chicago, Brandon has also worked with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago as a guest artist
• His recent dance film, ROLLBACK premiered in May 2023 as a part of the Future Dance Festival

• Azeke’s Direction/Choreography: Day After Your Departure (HBO) – Choreographer, Lady In The Lake with Natalie Portman (Apple +)
• Azeke’s Film Performance Credits include: In The Heights, Tick Tick Boom with Lin Manuel Miranda, Bolden

• Castro: Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, US Associate Choreographer
• Castro’s Theater & Film: Fuerzabruta, The Whiz Live (NBC), The Greatest Showman

• 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 television credits include: Grey’s Anatomy, Happy Endings, In Plain Sight, Switched at Birth, Castle, The Mentalist, Boston Public, and more

Costumes Encouraged!

• Resident Choreographer, Nebula Dance Lab
• 2021 Franco-American Fulbright Scholar, is a certified Luigi Technique teacher, and holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara
• Her upcoming dance theater piece “sorcière” will premiere Fall 2026, with the support of a CUNY CDI residency and a Dance Lab NY residency.

• Choreographed for the opening of New York fashion week Spring 2023
• Taught at famous conventions all over the world including “Move It” and “Can You Dance” in the UK and “Australian Dance Festival”
• Regularly judging and setting award winning choreography and company repertoire throughout the US, UK, Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico and Australia

• Artistic Director, The Dash Ensemble
• DASH Ensemble performance credits include The JOYCE Theater, Baryshnikov Arts Center, NYLA, Guggenheim Works and Process Series, Kaatsbaan and Jacob’s Pillow
• Commission credits include American Dance Festival, Northwest Dance Project, Ballet Austin Cirio Collective, Daniil Smikin’s INTENSIO, Atlanta Ballet, Central Park Summer Stage, and Hubbard Street 2 among many others

• Katie was Al Blackstone’s Associate Choreographer on productions of Oklahoma, Hairspray, Pippin, and others
• In 2022 she directed, choreographed, and performed in her first full-length show “35: a celebration of being alive”
• Performed at iconic venues such as The Joyce Theater in NYC, and choreographed works which have premiered at venues from The Ailey Theater in NYC to as far as Mexico City & Prague.

• OBC Cast of Hell’s Kitchen
• Recent choreographer at Signature Theatre and CO Fine Arts Center

• Her choreography can be seen in the movie, “Dance-Off,” Go90’s ‘Crashed’ series, Kid’s Choice Awards among others
• Choreographer of all eight seasons of Dance Moms!
• Currently on faculty at Artistic Dance Exchange and Wild Dance Intensive for the Star Dance Alliance

• Choreographed for the opening of New York fashion week Spring 2023
• Taught at famous conventions all over the world including “Move It” and “Can You Dance” in the UK and “Australian Dance Festival”
• Regularly judging and setting award winning choreography and company repertoire throughout the US, UK, Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico and Australia

• Director and Co-Creator of Common Ground
• Coach on MTV’s Made
• Choreographer for Broadway Cares’ Gypsy of the Year, and Two-Time NYMF Award Winner for Choreography