The Spotlight Series

• Upcoming: Ragtime at Lincoln Center, chorographer
• Broadway credits include Choreographer for Anne of Green Gables, Funny Girl, Mr. Saturday Night. Off-Broadway: Little Shop of Horrors, Titanique
• 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?

• Premiered her first work for The National Ballet of Canada celebrating the music of Grammy Award-winning composer John Adams in March 2023
• Recipient of the prestigious 2019 Princess Grace Foundation Award for Choreography
• Created works for BalletX, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, GroundWorks DanceTheater, Jacob’s Pillow Contemporary Summer Program, and many more

• Founder, COLE JAZZ
• Resident Director/Assistant Choreographer for the National Tour of Chicago
• Chet Walker’s associate, working closely alongside Chet teaching and creating work across the globe and developing Jack Cole The Musical

• Associate Choreographer for The Radio City Rockettes
• Kate Spade New York
• MSC Cruises

• Founder of The Difference Between Dance Company
• TV credits include So You Think You Can Dance, Dancing with the Stars, and World Of Dance
• Notably, she has directed and choreographed for acclaimed musician Dermot Kennedy

• 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

• Currently in Death Becomes Her
• Broadway credits include, Kiss Me, Kate, Hello, Dolly!, and Paramour
• Off-Broadway: Black No More, Standard Time, Encores!, Thoroughly Modern Milli

• Produced shows at The Producer’s Club in NYC, installed several casts for Royal Caribbean International, was Associate Choreographer for Cabaret: The Musical
• Worked in the casting department for RWS Entertainment Group and Binder Casting
• Co-Founder of Creative Streak Entertainment, which delivers unmatched live entertainment for corporate, nightlife, and theme park clients

• 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)

• Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club, US Associate Choreographer
• Theater & Film: Fuerzabruta, The Whiz Live (NBC), The Greatest Showman
• Superbowl shows: Janet Jackson & Beyonce

• Former Assistant Choreographer, Dance Captain and Swing for Radio City Rockettes
• Co-Founder: Precision Dance Collective
• Adjunct Professor – Marymount Manhattan College

• 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

• 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.

• 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”
• Performed in musicals including 42nd Street and Oklahoma!

• West End credits include Broadway’s Movin’ Out,  Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake and the Olivier award-winning revival of La Cage aux Folles
• Featured in Nine, directed by Oscar-winner Rob Marshall
• Broadway credits include The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Hal Prince and The Terms of My Surrender, directed by Michael Mayer

• Shannon Atkins 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”
• Nijawwon Matthews was awarded the New York Dance Festival Choreographic Fellowship at the School of American Ballet in 2024
• Was a featured dance soloist in “Transformation: Personal Stories of Change, Acceptance, and Evolution” created by actress Glenn Close and musician Ted Nash

• Co-Choreographer, The Cher Show
• Worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment today, including Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, Cher, Usher, Halsey, Lady Gaga, and many more
• Feature film work includes Isn’t It Romantic, Annie, Going the Distance, Step Up II, Enchanted, Brighton Beach

• 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

• 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

This heels masterclass is designed for intermediate to advanced dancers, with a focus on 

• Choreography & performance quality
• Class will be filmed — come camera ready!

• Choreographer: A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical
• Choreographer  for X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X (MET Opera), A Wonderful World pre-Broadway Tour
• Associate Choreography: Hell’s Kitchen (Broadway), The Hippest Trip, Once on This Island

• Broadway, Chicago The Musical where he toured both nationally and internationally
• Only person to have performed as both a singer and a dancer in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
• Performance credits include Joseph…, and Billy Elliot (The Muny), Bye Bye Birdie (Lyric Theatre OKC), and more

• Choreographer credits include Suffs, How To Dance In Ohio
• TV/Film credits include, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon), The Get Down (Netflix), NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live
• Performed and toured with the Parson’s Dance Company, Camille A. Brown and Dancers, Kyle Abraham’s A.I.M

• 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”
• Performed in musicals including 42nd Street and Oklahoma!

• 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

• Performed nationally and internationally with companies such as The Von Howard Project, Forces of Nature, Ballet INC and Continuum Contemporary/Ballet
• She can be seen on The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (Netflix) and is featured on Season 2 of POSE (FX network)
• Assistant Company Manager for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater from 2015-2018

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Co-Choreographer, The Cher Show
• Worked with some of the biggest names in entertainment today, including Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez, Ariana Grande, Cher, Usher, Halsey, Lady Gaga, and many more
• Feature film work includes Isn’t It Romantic, Annie, Going the Distance, Step Up II, Enchanted, Brighton Beach

• Principal dancer and serves as the dance captain with Dorrance Dance
• Premiered  A Swing Suite at 92NY, co-choreographed with Luke Hickey
• Stage credits include The Joyce Theater, New York City Center, The Kennedy Center, Sadler’s Wells, among others

• Assisted Tony-award winning choreographer Christopher Gattelli on the Broadway musical, The Cher Show
• Associate choreographer of Mamma Mia! at New London Barn Playhouse
• Recent choreography credits include South Pacific (Engeman Theater), Annie (Sharon Playhouse), The Prom (Sharon Playhouse)

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL DANCE WORKSHOP

• Dance Specialist Casting for Cirque Du Soleil
• Radio City Christmas Spectacular as both Dance Captain and Assistant Choreographer
• Past creative credits with Cirque include serving as Senior Artistic Advisor for The Beatles LOVE and Dance Master for Mystère and LOVE

• Worked as a company member of DanceLab New York
• Worked with choreographers including Mia Michaels (Mia Michaels LIVE), Kristen Carcone (Dinner is Served, 2019 Governor’s Island Residency), Josh Bergasse (Tisch Gala 2010, Jazz at Lincoln Center)
• Other credits include PHISH at MSG, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

• Can currently be seen on Broadway in & JULIET as a swing and assistant dance captain
• His Broadway debut was in Hamilton, where he also served as a Universal Swing
• Choreographic credits include Grease at The Rev, Catch Me If You Can at NYU Skirball, music videos for “Ready to Be Loved (Dance Remix),” among others

• Head coach of the Brooklyn Nets Kids
• Artists: Beyoncé Mary J. Blige Usher
• CEO, Artistic Director, BOSS Kids Commercial Dance Program

• Choreographed the 76th Annual Tony Awards Opening number and tribute to John Kander
• 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

• 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

• 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)