Jazz

Contemporary

Steven Blandino has his BFA from Pace University Commercial Dance. He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Pace Commercial Dance & Musical Theater, as well as on Faculty at Steps, Broadway Dance Center, and Peridance Center. Recent performance credits include West Side Story Italy, CATS, West Side Story (Houston Grand Opera), Newsies, Mr. Saturday Night (Workshop), Funny Girl (Pre Pro), Mamma Mia!, Phish NYE at Madison Square Garden, and many more. Steven choreographed Broken Bride at New York Musical Festival & was recently a 2020 Capezio ACE Award Finalist in Los Angeles. Steven is the proud founder & director of his commercial dance company treadFAST.

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.