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Richard Riaz Yoder is an Astaire Award-winning broadway veteran of five Tony-nominated and winning musicals. He is most known on Broadway for being that one happy freckled guy in the ensemble for which he was nominated for Best Male Dancer in a Broadway Show by the Astaire Awards....Read more
Richard Riaz Yoder is an Astaire Award-winning broadway veteran of five Tony-nominated and winning musicals. He is most known on Broadway for being that one happy freckled guy in the ensemble for which he was nominated for Best Male Dancer in a Broadway Show by the Astaire Awards. His Broadway credits include White Christmas, On The Twentieth Century, Shuffle Along, Hello Dolly, and My Fair Lady. Richard’s tv credits include Co-Staring as Conrad on Mom on CBS, featured performer on the Late Late Show with James Corden starring Zac Efron, Zendaya, and Hugh Jackman, featured performer for “Taking the Stage” opening of the African American Museum in DC, and two Tony Awards Telecasts. He can also be heard on the revival cast recordings of Hello, Dolly!, and On The Twentieth Century. He has also worked as a master tap and jazz teacher around the country when not performing.
On top of his credits, he has had the pleasure to work onstage with Julie Andrews, Billy Porter, Bette Midler, Audra McDonald, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Bernadette Peters, David Hyde Pierce, Victor Garber, Laura Benanti, George C. Wolfe, Savion Glover, Peter Gallagher, Kristin Chenoweth, Adrienne Warren, and Beanie Feldstein to name a few.
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Richard's class is a fun, upbeat class based on rhythm and broadway. He draws on his years of experience working on Broadway with the solid foundation of rhythm tap he received earlier in his training. He is inspiration ranges from Savion Glover, Maurice Hines, Robert L. Reed, Fred Astaire, The Condos Brothers, Gene Kelly, Jeni Le Gon, Elenor Powell, and so many more. Each class is started with a warm-up to ease us into class while building strength, speed, and rhythm. Next is one or two combinations taught swiftly to work on specific skills and picking up choreography. Lastly, a combination uses the principles we just worked on while adding a performance quality to the choreography.
With my class I want people to come away being able to pick up choreography fast and feel more confident working on skills that might not have been broken down before. I want to create a sense of ease when dancing so you can focus on the performance quality of your movement.