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Cary Tedder was last seen tapping away at the Helen Hayes Theater playing Dick in Broadway’s Dames At Sea. A Broadway performer for ten years, he has also been seen at various regional venues around the country, and as Tony in the First National Tour of West Side Story.
...Read moreCary Tedder was last seen tapping away at the Helen Hayes Theater playing Dick in Broadway’s Dames At Sea. A Broadway performer for ten years, he has also been seen at various regional venues around the country, and as Tony in the First National Tour of West Side Story.
A Washingtonian by birth, Georgian by upbringing, Michigander by education, and New Yorker by profession, Cary has developed an eclectic style and playful demeanor present in his approach to both dance, and its teaching. After teaching at various schools including the Atlanta Ballet, the Broadway Dance Collective (Baltimore, Maryland), The MPulse summer program (University of Michigan), and the Open Jar Institute, he is thrilled to get the chance to teach in a Broadway Dance Center classroom.
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Students will be sure to sweat, think, and shake up their minds and hearts in this musical theatre based dance study. Exploring movement’s expressive qualities alongside dance technique, students will get a glimpse of real-world application, as well as a space to play and fall.
Warm-up consists of breathing through movement grounded in yoga, ballet and jazz. Terminology and dissection of the meaning behind specific exercises provide deeper knowledge about how and why we warm ourselves up.
students will explore traveling steps, turns, kicks, jumps, the ever elusive ballong while going across the floor. Timing, spacial awareness, memory, and grace are of inestimable value to professional dancers.
Students will find what it takes to work through a combination at the level of a seasoned pro, in learning choreography from a Broadway show. Beyond the realm of choreography, students will study what it means to become a “happy human dancing,” and how to not only study dance, but to access and enjoy the intoxicating freedom it releases.