Jazz

Contemporary

Steven Blandino has a BFA in Commercial Dance from Pace University, with a focus in Choreography. Steven is a New York based dancer & choreographer. Teaching credits include Faculty at Steps on Broadway, Pace University, Broadway Dance Center, and Peridance Center. His choreography credits include Broken Bride Off Broadway, Dance Lab New York with mentorship under Ellenore Scott, 2020 Capezio ACE Awards Finalist, New York Musical Festival, Rebel Rebel: The Many Lives of David Bowie, Burlesque to Broadway, The Steps Beyond Foundation, Pace University's Dance Out Loud, APAP, The Young Choreographer's Festival, Choreographer's Canvas, Jared Grimes' "Run the Night", and most recently put up his own Dance Narrative at Symphony Space in New York City. Steven has choreographed for commercial ads such as boredCOW & Noorshama Jewelry. Steven recently founded his dance company treadFAST, which has already performed numerous sold out shows in NYC.

As a dancer/performer, he has appeared in West Side Story (Chicago Lyric Opera) under Joshua Bergasse, CATS National Tour, Newsies, West Side Story (Houston Grand Opera. Weston Playhouse), Sleeping Beauty Dreams (The Beacon Theatre/The Artsch Center), Mamma Mia!, Shrek, as well as ads for Johnson & Johnson, Carnegie Hall, and many more.

Class Description:
Classes begin with a warm up focusing on strength, conditioning, and core. Across the Floor may include improv, as well as a short contemporary-based movement combination to follow. Combinations are meant to challenge the mind, as well as to improve the pace of retaining choreography. His main focus is to challenge students to develop dynamics, style, and performance technique as quickly and efficiently as possible, in order to improve their class and audition skills. Contemporary based combinations are fused with authentic jazz technique and/or theatre inspired.