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Cam Loeser is a New York based choreographer and dance educator. Cam is the Founder and Artistic Director of COLE JAZZ and its dance company The NEW Jack Cole Dancers. The company has recently celebrated the inaugural run of their CLUB ACT in Midtown. Through COLE JAZZ, Cam teaches the Jack Cole Technique across the world in New York, Tokyo, London, and Mexico.
...Read moreCam Loeser is a New York based choreographer and dance educator. Cam is the Founder and Artistic Director of COLE JAZZ and its dance company The NEW Jack Cole Dancers. The company has recently celebrated the inaugural run of their CLUB ACT in Midtown. Through COLE JAZZ, Cam teaches the Jack Cole Technique across the world in New York, Tokyo, London, and Mexico.
Cam has served as Resident Director/Assistant Choreographer for the National Tour of Chicago, and the Associate Choreographer for the Broadway Revival of Pippin, which he re-constructed in Japan and Australia. In 2022, Cam acted as the Swing/Dance Captain for the UK Tour of Chicago for their Tokyo engagement. Cam also served as Tour Choreographer for the National Tour of Finding Neverland in 2018/2019, and Dance Captain for the National Tour of Pippin in 2017.
Cam had the privilege of acting as the late Chet Walker’s Associate, working closely alongside Chet teaching and creating work across the globe up until his passing. Cam assisted Chet in reconstructing the Broadway Revival of Pippin for the first Japanese language production in Tokyo in 2019, and remounted Pippin on Chet’s behalf in Australia in 2020 and again in Tokyo in 2022. Cam assisted Chet in teaching in the style of Jazz Dance pioneer Jack Cole in New York as well as in London, and can be seen dancing for Chet in a Jack Cole segment for the jazz documentary UPROOTED. Throughout the years, Cam worked with Chet developing his JACK COLE Project.
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A Cole Jazz class offers a training space for dancers looking to develop a more mindful relationship with their technique, hone their artistry, and explore the historic style of Jazz dance pioneer Jack Cole. The class begins with an aerobic warmup that drops the dancer into their breath and sensations from the inside, charging and stretching the body for the work ahead. The class then moves into a center practice that enlist principals from Jack Cole’s pilates informed floor progression, as well as dynamic standing technique and isolation exercises that challenge the dancer to access deeper functionality, coordination, and expansion. We then move into phrase work in the style of Jack Cole that explores dynamic musicality and rhythm, expression, motor skills, and the cultural styles and principles that defined Cole’s idiom and American Jazz Dance. The emphasis of this class is to offer the opportunity for dancers to build a foundational practice and a personal relationship with their craft. It is a space dedicated to helping artists broaden their knowledge and create a deeper understanding of their own bodies. Commitment to consistent training stretches our capacity to take on new, virtuosic work, and opens us up to endless possibilities and discoveries. Most importantly, this is a community space devoted to sharing in the joy of what we do as artists. Come dance!