January 2010

Upcoming Events
  • NEW CLASSES! NEW TEACHERS! NEW TIMES!
  • ULTIMATE INTRODUCTORY ADULT WORKSHOPS
  • PERFORMANCE LAB SERIES
  • MUSIC BEYOND THE STUDIO CONCERT
  • THE SCHOOL AT STEPS
  • HAVE YOU HEARD?
  • BOUTIQUE - SALE EXTENDED
  • New Classes, Performances, Ticket Discounts & more

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  • NEW CLASSES! NEW TEACHERS! NEW TIMES!
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    Ballet, Tap, Jazz,
    Musical Theater, Contemporary, Street Styles, Pilates

    Check website for daily updates & bios
    Single Class: $16.50
    Single Master Class: $18.00
    Discounts on multiple class packages

    Photo by R. O'Connor
    Dance - all styles, all levels, for all ages

    Master Classes
    Sean Curran: thru 1/22, Adv Int Contemp, Mon/Wed/Fri 2:30-4:30pm

    Ballet
    Guest Teacher! Kim Abel: 2/1-2/8, Adv Pro Ballet, Mon-Sat 10:30am-12:00pm & 2/1-2/6, Adv Int Ballet, Mon-Sat 4:30-6:00pm
    Guest Teacher! Michael Vernon: 2/9-2/16, Adv Pro Ballet, Mon-Sat 10:30am-12:00pm & 2/9-2/16, Adv Int Ballet, Mon-Fri 4:30-6:00pm
    New Class! Kathleen Smith: Int Ballet, Mon/Wed 10:00-11:30am
    New Class! Wilhelm Burmann: Adv Pro Ballet, Mon 10:30am-12:00pm

    Jazz, Theater Dance, Modern, Street Styles, Ethnic
    Guest Teacher! Maria Torres: 1/25-2/19, Adv Int Latin Jazz, Mon/Wed/Fri 2:30-4:15pm
    New Teacher! Fernando Carrillo: Adv Int Horton, Thu 3:00-4:30pm

    Tap
    New Class! Lisa LaTouche: Int Tap, Wed 10:00-11:30am; Adv Beg Tap, Fri 10:00-11:30am & Beg Tap, Sat 4:00-5:30pm
    New Style! Barbara Duffy: Int Tap Improv, Tue 1:00-2:30pm

    Pilates, Yoga & Exercise
    New Class! Amanda Turner: Kripalu-based Yoga, All levels, Mon 11:00am-12:00pm & Wed 11:00am-12:15pm
    New Class! Brett Willbanks: Hatha Vinyasa Yoga, All levels, Sun 3:00-4:00pm

    Please check website for classes/workshops and schedule updates

    For Faculty Bios. . .
  • ULTIMATE INTRODUCTORY ADULT WORKSHOPS
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    BEGINS THIS WEEKEND!

    Jan - Feb
    6 Class Series
    $125 per workshop
    $115 early registration discount online or at Steps
    2 Workshops $220

    3 Workshops $325
    Classes for Adults with little or no experience...

    A TASTE OF TAP with RAY HESSELINK
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    Join Ray Hesselink for this exciting workshop. Just bring your shoes, wear comfortable clothing and get out on the dance floor!

    Ray Hesselink is a performer, choreographer and teacher. He originated roles in Imagine Tap! and the off-Broadway hit, Batboy: The Musical. He is the tap coach for the Broadway musical, Billy Elliot, and has choreographed for many venues including New York Musical Theater Festival, The Duke Theater, Symphony Space, and the Yale Drama School.

    Jan 17-Feb 21
    Sun 2:30-4:00pm

    THE REAL BALLET BASICS with KATHRYN SULLIVAN
    Kathryn Sullivan
    Classical ballet concepts made easy! Learn ballet fundamentals in a fun and clear way from experienced STEPS teacher and choreographer.

    Kathryn Sullivan performed with the Boston Ballet, Les Grands Ballet Canadiens, Connecticut Ballet, and Les Ballet de Nancy. She has taught at Broadway Dance Center, La Guardia High School of Performing Arts, New Jersey Ballet, and has done master classes and judging for Professional Dance Teachers Association and Dance Masters of America.

    Jan 17-Feb 21
    Sun 4:00-5:30pm

    JAZZ ESSENTIALS with LISA HARVIE
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    All you need is comfortable clothing, jazz shoes and a little attitude!

    Lisa Harvie has crossed the country on a U.S. National Tour of West Side Story and appeared in regional productions of Oklahoma!, Kiss Me Kate, Footloose, Scrooge and Singin' in the Rain. She played the role of Louise in Carousel at Stages St. Louis and performed in My Fair Lady for Houston Theatre Under the Stars as well as in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre and for Dallas Summer Musicals. In addition to her musical theater credits, she has danced with the Ottawa Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens at Canada's National Arts Center.

    Jan 16-2/27 (no class 2/13)
    Sat 5:00-6:30pm

    After completing the workshop . . . join Ray, Kathryn and Lisa in their basic & beginner classes. Visit our online schedule.

    Register Now. . .
  • PERFORMANCE LAB SERIES
  • Performance Lab
    A Lab for Creative Experiments

    Open to ALL interested artists
    Performance: Sat, Feb 20 & Sun, Feb 21
    Tickets $10 day of performance
    Application Deadline: Fri, Feb 5

    Steps Studio Theater
    2121 Broadway
    3rd Floor, NYC
    Dance, Music, Theatre, Performance Art, Multidisciplinary Works

    The Lab Series provides an opportunity for emerging and established artists from all live performance disciplines to experiment and experience their work in front of an audience.

    The series provides space and minimal technical support for artists to present a specific and unique work of art in a supportive environment. Artists receive CONFIDENTIAL, written feedback from the audience.

    Performance: Sat, Feb 20 & Sun, Feb 21
    Application Deadline: Fri, Feb 5


    NEXT LAB: April 17 & 18
    Application deadline: April 2

    For more information & application. . .
  • MUSIC BEYOND THE STUDIO CONCERT
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    30th anniversary celebration continues with

    Music Concert featuring Steps Musicians
    Sun, Jan 31
    7:30pm
    Steps Studio Theater

    3rd Floor
    Tickets $10
    $7 students
    Steps Beyond presents. . .

    Music Beyond the Studio


    with
    Joe Cross, Marc Diminno, Melody Fader, Barry Harwood, Gary Khachikian,
    Bob Sardo, Doug Schultz, Vladimir Shinov & Marina Porchkhidze,
    Rosanne Soifer


    playing
    Jazz, Classical & American Standards
    piano - percussion - strings hosted by
    DONALD BYRD
    (Artistic Director, Spectrum Dance; Broadway choreographer, The Color Purple and White Noise; NYC Opera, Carmina Burana)

    Sunday, January 31, 2010 @ 7:30pm
    Steps Studio Theater


    Tickets: On sale at 212-874-2410 x 27
    or at the front desk
    $10 general admission; $7 students with ID

    Program subject to change

    Learn more. . .
  • THE SCHOOL AT STEPS
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    Training the dancers of tomorrow

    New Classes & Workshops
    Explore Dance
    Young Dancers Program

    What's Happening. . .

    YOUNG DANCER, TECHNIQUE CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

    New Class! Pre-Dance 1 with Vanessa Salgado (age 4)
    Sun 10:15-11:00am
    Ballet 1 with Tomiko Magario (ages 8-10)
    Sun 10:30-11:30am
    New Class! Hip Hop 1 with Laya Barak (ages 9-12)
    Thu 5:00-6:00pm
    Int/Adv Theater Ballet with Matt Williams (ages 12-18)
    Sat 1:00-2:00pm
    Teen Pilates with Robin Powell (ages 12-18)
    Sat 1:30-2:30pm
    Beginning Teen Ballet with Lonne Moretton (ages 12-18)
    Mon 6:30-7:30pm
    Adv Jazz with roberta mathes (ages 12-18)
    Thu 7:30-9:00pm
    Song and Dance Workshop Workshop with Jeff Edmond
    Ages 12-18, Thu 7:30-8:45pm
    Ages 9-12, Fri 5:00-6:15pm
    Comedy Improv with Jeff Edmond (ages 12-18)
    Fri 6:15 -7:30pm

    Contact the SAS office for complete information and registration 212-874-3678 or email lizzy@stepsnyc.com

    EXPLORE DANCE: Create your own dance experience

    Now offered during the year (ages 9-15)
    Beg Tap - Sun, 12:30-1:30pm
    Beg Ballet - Sun, 1:30-2:30pm
    Beg Hip Hop - Sun, 2:30-3:30pm
    Single classes or discounts on multiple class packages available

    Contact the office for complete information and registration
    212-874-3678 or email lizzy@stepsnyc.com

    YOUNG DANCERS PROGRAM

    Observation Week: Jan 18 - 24
    You are invited to bring up to 2 people to watch your child's class.

    REMINDER! Semester II begins Mon, Jan 25. Enroll now!

    Learn more. . .
  • HAVE YOU HEARD?
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    Activities of our Faculty & Musicians. . .

    Find out what our
    faculty & musicans are doing

    News From Our Faculty & Musicians. . .

    Todd Shanks (Hip Hop/Jazz Faculty & Admin) will be choreographing an interactive website commercial for the BIC "Soleil" Razor.

    Willy Burmann (Ballet Faculty) will be teaching for the Saar Brucken Opera Ballet in Germany from Feb 1-Feb 16.

    Patricia & Leslie Lockery's (Theater & Tap Faculty) NYC's Dance makers will be presenting Gotta Dance on 1/25, 1/26 & 1/28 at MMAC Theatre, 248 W 60th St.

    Lonne Moretton (Ballet & SAS Faculty) is choreographing for the production of The Task at the Castillo Theatre, 543 W 42nd St. Jan 22-Feb 21, Fri & Sat @ 7:30pm & Sun @ 2pm. for tickets call 212-941-1234.

    Patti Wilcox (Jazz Faculty) is currently choreographing for Arizona Theatre Company doing the west coast premiere of title of show and was also quoted in the February Dance Magazine on correcting shoulder problems.

    Barbara Duffy (Tap Faculty) & Company performed at APAP (Association of Performing Arts Presenters) conference. They featured excerpts from their concert Stages.

    Lori Belilove (SAS Faculty) releases her DVD EveryWoman Series: The Red Thread and the companion CD 24 Preludes of Frederic Chopin by the John Link Project on Jan 25 @ 7pm & 9:30pm. Isadora Duncan Foundation 141 W 26th St.

    CONGRATULATIONS TO JAY T & VICKI ON THE BIRTH OF THEIR SON - JAEDON LYNDEN JENKINS!

  • BOUTIQUE - SALE EXTENDED
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    Steps En Corps Boutique

    2121 Broadway
    3rd Floor

    Magazines & children's wear.

    SALES
    50% off all Children's Dancewear.
    Ballet and jazz shoes, leotards and more.

    On sale now! Fill in your library with missing dance magazines.
    The boutique is selling older issues of Dance Magazine, Dance Teacher, Dance Spirit and Pointe Magazine for $1.00 each.

    The boutique is open:
    Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday & Friday: 9:30am-6:30pm
    Thursday: 10:30am-7:30pm
    Saturday: 9:30am-5:30pm
    Sunday: 10:30am-5:30pm

  • FOLLOW STEPS ON THE WEB
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    You can now get information on classes and events at the following social networking sites:

    twitter www.twitter.com/stepsonbroadway

    facebook www.facebook.com/stepso nbroadway

    myspace www. myspace.com/stepsnyc

    youtube www.youtube .com/stepsnyc

  • $10 TICKETS @ THE JOYCE
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    GYOR NATIONAL BALLET

    Jan 26-31
    Tickets start at $10!


    Experience the daring and fresh choreography of Hungry's foremost contemporary ballet company when it returns to The Joyce with 2 US premieres set to Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and Petrushka. Brilliant technique and originality intersect in this compelling program that commemorates the fall of the Communist regime in Europe.

    The Joyce Theater
    175 8th Ave. @ 19th St.
    For $10 tickets call JoyceCharge: 212-242- 0800

    photo by Bela Szabo

    Purchase your tickets now. . .

       
    Steps on Broadway
    2121 Broadway
    3rd Floor
    New York, New York 10023
    212-874-2410
     
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    Looking for a way to help pay for all those classes?
    The Steps on Broadway Work/Study Program may be for you!

    Work 8-10 hours per week at the studio in exchange for unlimited discounted classes!

    *Serious dancers only*

    *Minimum 3 month commitment required*

    To schedule an interview, contact Kristi A. Sutton @ 212-874-2410

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    Village 
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    The Village Voice is Steps on Broadway's media sponsor.

    Pick up your Village Voice at Steps on Broadway.

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    Billy Elliot: The Musical

    "Billy Elliot," you see, isn't a dance show; it's about why people need dance.". . .NY Times

    10 TONY AWARDS!

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    Steps on Broadway
    is proud to have an ongoing partnership with
    Dance Theater Workshop



    ALL TICKETS $10 AT THE DOOR FOR STEPS STUDENTS!
    (must show Steps E-Card at the box office to receive discount)

    check for postcards at Steps (3rd Floor) about upcoming DTW performances/events

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    The Joyce Theater and Steps on Broadway are proud of their ongoing partnership to cultivate dance throughout NYC!

    The Joyce

    check for postcards at Steps (3rd Floor) about upcoming Joyce & Joyce Soho performances/events

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