Academy Theater Dance Archives - Steps Academy https://www.stepsnyc.com/academy/discipline/academy-theater-dance/ Training the dancers of tomorrow Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:08:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.stepsnyc.com/academy/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2025/04/cropped-cropped-steps-site-icon-white-32x32.png Academy Theater Dance Archives - Steps Academy https://www.stepsnyc.com/academy/discipline/academy-theater-dance/ 32 32 Jill Gittleman https://www.stepsnyc.com/academy/faculty/jill-gittleman/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:21:13 +0000 https://www.stepsnyc.com/new/faculty/jill-gittleman/ Jill Gittleman is a dancer, performer and teacher based in NYC. She most recently served as the Associate Choreographer for Elf The Musical at the Ogunquit Playhouse and was the dance captain on the West Side Story World Tour. She is a teacher for the Steps On Broadway Pre Professional program and has taught for […]

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]]> Jill Gittleman is a dancer, performer and teacher based in NYC. She most recently served as the Associate Choreographer for Elf The Musical at the Ogunquit Playhouse and was the dance captain on the West Side Story World Tour. She is a teacher for the Steps On Broadway Pre Professional program and has taught for countless other studios in the tri-state area. Other favorite performing credits include My Fair Lady, The Gilded Age seasons 1 & 2 and West Side Story at Asolo Rep.

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]]> Cathy Fogelman https://www.stepsnyc.com/academy/faculty/cathy-fogelman/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:20:41 +0000 https://www.stepsnyc.com/new/faculty/cathy-fogelman/ Cathy Fogelman is a current company member of American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21). A native New Yorker, she received much of her early theater dance training as a teenager with Lee Theodore, founder of the original American Dance Machine and subsequently with Bob Tucker, whom she would substitute for at Broadway Dance […]

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]]> Cathy Fogelman is a current company member of American Dance Machine for the 21st Century (ADM21). A native New Yorker, she received much of her early theater dance training as a teenager with Lee Theodore, founder of the original American Dance Machine and subsequently with Bob Tucker, whom she would substitute for at Broadway Dance Center and Steps On Broadway. She has taught courses at Hampshire College and Smith College as well as master classes and conservatory classes with performances at Steps On Broadway.

Some of her favorite performing credits include: ADM21 at The Joyce Theater NYC, West Side Story as Anybody’s, Guggenheim Works and Process (On The Town, Jerome Robbins 30th Anniversary), Barnum, Sugar Babies, Sesame Street Live, Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, and Dance Machine International in NYC and in Japan with Takarazuka Revue. She has also choreographed works including Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita, Off- Broadway.

Cathy has been fortunate to work with or assist many notable Broadway choreographers, performers and directors including: Donna McKechnie, Wayne Cilento, Robert LaFosse, Cady Huffman, Nick Garr and BobTucker.

Cathy is passionate about teaching and passing on the invaluable information that she received to the next generation of dancers, so is very excited to be currently teaching for ADM21 at Steps On Broadway.

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]]> Danielle Diniz https://www.stepsnyc.com/academy/faculty/danielle-diniz/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:19:28 +0000 https://www.stepsnyc.com/new/faculty/danielle-diniz/ Danielle has been commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow, the Ailey BFA program, Stars of American Ballet, and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance, among others. She became Co Artistic Director of Jazz Choreography Enterprises at the start of 2024, choreographed New York Circus Project’s tour of Hamlet summer 2024 and choreographed for St. Louis Ballet, AVID Dance, […]

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]]> Danielle has been commissioned by Jacob’s Pillow, the Ailey BFA program, Stars of American Ballet, and Earl Mosley’s Diversity of Dance, among others. She became Co Artistic Director of Jazz Choreography Enterprises at the start of 2024, choreographed New York Circus Project’s tour of Hamlet summer 2024 and choreographed for St. Louis Ballet, AVID Dance, Revolve Dance Project, Chevalier Ballet, East Coast Contemporary Ballet, Interim Dance and Woman in Motion spring/summer 2025.

She was a featured choreographer for DanceBreak (musical theater’s leading platform for upcoming Broadway choreographers) made her Off-Broadway choreographic debut at the AMT Theatre with ‘An Unbalanced Mind,’ presented work at the McCallum Theatre/Palm Desert Choreography Festival and the New York Theatre Barn Choreography Lab and was awarded a grant from NYFA/City Artist Corps to present a full evening of her choreography.

She also choreographed ‘My Way’ at Theatre by the Sea, the Vaudevillian musical ‘On the Air,’ musical theater showcases at AMDA and has served as Associate Choreographer for Broadway’s Lorin Latarro.

She is on faculty at the Steps on Broadway Academy and Manhattan Youth Ballet and also enjoys teaching professional level classes for Steps on Broadway, Mark Morris and Peridance. She holds a B.A. Cornell University.

Class Description
This jazz/theater jazz class, lead with positivity, encouragement and personalization, encompasses classic vocabulary, while working on stylization and technique. All sessions start with a strength and stretch based warm-up, across the floor and transitions to high energy, intention-based choreography.

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]]> Audrey Schultz https://www.stepsnyc.com/academy/faculty/audrey-schultz/ Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:18:22 +0000 https://www.stepsnyc.com/new/faculty/audrey-schultz/ Audrey hails from Kansas City, Missouri, where she began her dance training more than 20 years ago. She attended the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment where she studied tap, jazz, and ballet technique with top-ranked professors. While in school, Audrey performed in the annual Home for the Holidays and Broadway Revue shows […]

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]]> Audrey hails from Kansas City, Missouri, where she began her dance training more than 20 years ago. She attended the Ann Lacy School of American Dance and Entertainment where she studied tap, jazz, and ballet technique with top-ranked professors. While in school, Audrey performed in the annual Home for the Holidays and Broadway Revue shows with the American Spirit Dance Company, in addition to serving as a Sound Technician, Assistant Stage Manager, and Assistant Company Manager.

Audrey graduated with a degree in Dance and Arts Management and has spent the past few years teaching and choreographing in the styles of ballet, tap, jazz, and musical theater. She has helped artistic directors prepare and execute shows by choreographing, running rehearsals, and overseeing backstage activities. This past season, she performed as a Radio City Rockette, where she further studied the precision jazz technique. Audrey resides in New York City, where she continues to hone her craft by taking classes and teaching a variety of styles. Other past performing credits include Raymonda (Raymonda), Beauty and the Beast (Enchantress), Coppelia (Doll), and Cinderella (Autumn Fairy).

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