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Bill Waldinger is currently a regular faculty member at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City where he teaches both the Luigi Jazz Technique and classical Ballet. He is also a regular faculty member at the New York Film Academy, CAP 21, Molloy College, The Alden Moves Dance Theater, and Hamilton Dance. He has taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Hunter College, and The Manhattan Ballet School....Read more
Bill Waldinger is currently a regular faculty member at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City where he teaches both the Luigi Jazz Technique and classical Ballet. He is also a regular faculty member at the New York Film Academy, CAP 21, Molloy College, The Alden Moves Dance Theater, and Hamilton Dance. He has taught at Marymount Manhattan College, Hunter College, and The Manhattan Ballet School. Certified by Luigi to teach the Luigi Jazz Technique, Bill has taught Luigi Jazz workshops for the New Rising Sun Dance Project at DANY Studios/Joyce SoHo.
Bill has created Jazz Workshops, bringing together teachers who worked directly with Luigi, Matt Mattox, Jerome Robbins, and Bob Fosse. He has taught both Ballet and Luigi's work for "Broadway Donation Dance Classes", an organization providing "pay what you can afford" dance classes for working professional dancers. As a Guest Teacher, Bill has traveled the country to numerous conventions, colleges, schools and studios. He has also developed absolute beginner dance classes for singers at The Singers’ Forum.
As a performer, Bill has appeared in musical theater, concert dance, commercials, music videos, television and industrials. Highlights include regional and Off-Broadway productions of A Chorus Line, Carousel, Kismet, Drood, Oklahoma!, A Funny Thing…, and Guys and Dolls. He has danced in commercials for Time-Life, music videos for the group Fela-Antoine, the television show Soul Alive, and appeared in videos for the Theater Dance Workshop. He was a company member of The David Storey Dance Works and The Labyrinth Dance Theater.
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This traditional Jazz class based in the Luigi Jazz technique begins with a set warm up followed by a combination. This technique teaches a beautiful quality of movement, how to develop a deeply personal style, how the body works, how to feel and phrase the music, and how to “Never Stop Moving." It is a living growing evolving and exciting way to train dancers. The technique and style are taught exactly as Luigi taught it, but the work is presented in a way that allows dancers to apply the training to any style and any discipline. Students will pulse with the excitement that this technique brings, and will come away a more beautiful, more nuanced, more artistic, more unique, more exciting dancer in every style and discipline.