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Jason Anthony Rodriguez is a Dominican-American actor/dancer born and raised from Washington Heights in New York City. He went to SUNY Purchase where he received a BA in Arts Management with a focus in dance. He discovered voguing through Benny Ninja and began his training under him. He was also mentored by Dorit Koppel in ballet and Kevin Wynn in modern/contemporary and choreography. He trained in acting at The Susan Batson Studio.
...Read moreJason Anthony Rodriguez is a Dominican-American actor/dancer born and raised from Washington Heights in New York City. He went to SUNY Purchase where he received a BA in Arts Management with a focus in dance. He discovered voguing through Benny Ninja and began his training under him. He was also mentored by Dorit Koppel in ballet and Kevin Wynn in modern/contemporary and choreography. He trained in acting at The Susan Batson Studio.
He was a Series Regular in Ryan Murphy’s Emmy® and Golden Globe®-nominated series Pose as “Lamar” for all 3 seasons. He was also the Movement Coach for all 3 seasons of Pose for visual and print marketing. He choreographed for season 2 as well. He has guest-starred on the Season Finale of The Deuce on HBO as “Enrico”.
He has been featured in the NY Times 5 times by Siobhan Burke, Gia Kourlas and Illise S. Carter. “Mr. Rodriguez is a subtle scene stealer as Lamar on the FX show “Pose,” - Gia Kourlas from the NY Times.
Jason has taught vogue in various institutions throughout the states. He taught internationally in Dominican Republic, Vienna and Japan.
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New Way Vogue is one of 3 styes of voguing. The style is known for voguers showing off contorted and flexible poses with precision and grace. New Way is an element of vogue that shows mastery in creating lines, shapes, boxes, and face framing to the beat of the music. Classes begins with an ab conditioning series, a stretch series and then exercises of movement to help understand the dance form. Though students learn through a structure within class, voguing is improv based. It was created to be a free form of expression. The structure is there to help students explore the dance form but in the end it is to express both freely and confidently.