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Steven Blandino has a BFA in Commercial Dance from Pace University, with a focus in Choreography....Read more
Steven Blandino has a BFA in Commercial Dance from Pace University, with a focus in Choreography. His choreography credits include 2020 Capezio ACE Awards Finalist, Bridesmaids: A Dance Narrative (Writer, Director, Choreographer) Ludo's Broken Bride at the New York Musical Festival (The Duke on 42nd St), Rebel Rebel: The Many Lives of David Bowie (Canada, National Tour 2017), Burlesque to Broadway (Canada), The Steps Beyond Foundation Performance Lab, Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP - Peridance), 2015, Young Choreographer's Festival 2015/14, Choreographer's Canvas 2015, Jared Grimes' Run the Night, Hero Awards: honoring Jerry Mitchell, the Alvin Ailey Dance Soirée, to name a few.
Dancer/Performer: West Side Story (Houston Grand Opera. Weston Playhouse), Sleeping Beauty Dreams (The Beacon Theatre/The Artsch Center), Newsies, Mamma Mia!, Shrek (Tuacahn Center of the Arts), Johnson & Johnson, Carnegie Hall, and many more.
Steven has been featured in The New York Times, Front Row Center, TheaterMania, and was recently featured in an issue of Dance Magazine as an Emerging Young Choreographer. He has received numerous awards and recognition for his choreographic works. Steven is currently on Faculty at various institutions across New York City.
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Classes begin with a warm up focusing on strength, conditioning, and stretch. Across the Floor may include improv, as well as jazz influenced technique. class combos are meant to challenge the mind, as well as to improve the pace of retaining choreography. Steven's main focus is to challenge students to develop dynamics, style, and performance technique as quickly and efficiently as possible, in order to improve their class and audition skills. Contemporary based combinations are fused with authentic jazz technique and/or theatrically inspired.