Katie Drablos is a Dallas, TX native who after graduating from SMU with a BFA in Dance Performance, moved to the Big Apple in 2009. Her first job was as a Radio City Rockette and she has kept dancing, teaching and choreographing her way through the city ever since. She worked as Al Blackstone's Associate Choreographer on productions of Oklahoma, Hairspray, Pippin, and The Noteworthy Life of Howard Barnes. She also performed in his original works in NYC; Happy We'll Be and Freddie Falls in Love, both at the Signature Theatre & The Joyce
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Katie Walker attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts from 8th grade on through high school graduation with a major in Ballet.
During those years, Katie also trained with Houston Ballet, Boston Ballet, American Ballet Theater and Kaatsbaan International Ballet. Upon graduation, Katie joined Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet in NYC and performed works by Benoit Swan-Pouffer, Nicole Fonte, Edward Liang and Christina Johnson. Katie has been a Radio City Rockette since joining the company in 2008. In her 14 years as a Rockette, Katie has been assistant dance captain, swing, dance captain and assistant choreographer. In 2015
Katie Wilson Stewart is a New York City based dancer, singer, actor, and choreographer. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, she received her Bachelor in Fine Arts from East Carolina University. She’s a proud graduate of the Broadway Dance Center Training Program and is currently represented by the fabulous Across the Board Talent Agency.
Most recently Katie had the pleasure of playing Anita in West Side Story at STONC. Previously she was honored to be a part of the national tour of Kathleen Marshall’s Anything Goes as Dance Captain/Swing. Some favorite regional credits include Chicago (Velma), Urinetown (Hope Cladwell), The Boy
Katie Thrasher is a New York based dancer and group fitness Instructor. She currently teaches multiple formats at Equinox including Athletic Conditioning, Metcon, Cardio Blast, Core Conditioning, Inner Athlete, PGX, and Bootcamp, and is known for her killer AB series.
She found her passion for fitness and got her Bikram Yoga certification in 2011, She then began teaching 6-10 classes a week at Bikram Yoga Lower East Side and Bikram Yoga Downtown. She worked at LUXYoga which is a luxury Yoga retreat in the south of France.
Later, Katie switched her focus to more strength based group fitness. She has
Katie Spelman (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based choreographer and director; she was the Associate Choreographer on Moulin Rouge for the Boston, Broadway, and Australian companies, and was an associate on the Broadway productions of Amelie, American Psycho, and Once. Recent credits include Cabaret (Barrington Stage Company); the world premiere of An American Tail (CTC); Day 365 - Live from the Rainbow Room with Dylan Mulvaney, Once (Writers Theatre), The Notebook (CST), AD 16 (Olney Theater), The Beautiful Game (Tokyo), The Who’s Tommy (DCPA), and Oklahoma! (Goodspeed). She has also collaborated with Lookingglass, Ars Nova, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Camerata
Mary Grace McNally is a Brooklyn-based dance artist originally from Massachusetts. She produced, directed, and choreographed her first full-length work, Not For Picking, which premiered at Theaterlab (NYC) in June 2018. After presenting an excerpt of this work, Mary Grace was honored to receive the 2018 Capezio A.C.E. Award. She was also announced as ADA's National Choreographer of the Year in 2016. Her work has been presented at The Dance Gallery Festival, Dixon Place, Young Choreographer’s Festival, NewSteps Series, REVERBdance Festival, Salvatore Capezio Center, Centre National de la Danse in France, and deSingel in
Christine Murray (she/her) hails from Annapolis, MD and moved to New York City at the tender age of five. At seven, she was enrolled in ballet classes, where she quickly realized that dance was her passion. She went on to study disciplines ranging from tap, jazz, modern, and contemporary, to ballroom, African, hip-hop, and Flamenco at the Henry Street Settlement, where she also developed as a performer. Her style also bears the indelible mark of a martial arts influence owing to her studies at the Shaolin Temple Overseas Headquarters.
At nine, Christine enrolled in the BDC children’s summer program, where
Jim Cooney (he/him) is an award-winning choreographer who has taught Jazz, Tap, and Musical Theater across the world. The New York Times profiled his class in their Theater and Dance sections and praised him for training dancers with "audition must haves: character, motivation, and endurance." He's taught everyone from absolute beginners to professionals and celebrities such as former American Idol contestants, coaching Katie Couric how to lindy hop, and serving on the team rehearsing MTV's Rich Girls star Ally Hilfiger on her Broadway debut. He is proudly the faculty advisor of BDC's elite Professional Semester training program.
Recent projects include directing/choreographing Broadway Under the Stars for Transcendence
Mia DeWeese received her BFA in dance from Marymount Manhattan College under the direction of Katie Langan. She has danced with contemporary dance companies BodyStories: Teresa Fellion, 10 Hairy Legs Projects, and Freemove Dance.
She performed in Sonya Tayeh’s New York Live Arts and Jacob’s Pillow commissioned piece You’ll Still Call Me By Name. Television credits include ensemble/assistant choreographer for Rent: Live on the Fox Network, and waltz dancer for Gilded Age on HBO. She was ensemble/dance captain in the off-broadway production The Lucky Ones.
She is currently a swing/dance captain at Moulin Rouge! The Musical, at which
Andrew "Turtle" Turtletaub was born and raised in Brooklyn NY, and began his performing career at the early age of 17. He danced for Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida as a “Kid of the Kingdom,” as well as a dancer in Beauty and the Beast. He continued to perform for Royal Caribbean, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular (NYC and Branson, Missouri), as well as numerous industrials, television commercials, movies, and episodes of SNL. Andrew was an original member of Mia Michael’s dance company R.A.W. (Reality At Work), and after that, he began performing for A Few
Emmy, Tony, Obie and Drama Desk Award-winner Debra Monk has appeared on film in: Standing Up Falling Down; Demolition; This Is Where I Leave You; Reaching Home; One For the Money; Ass Backwards; The Great Buck Howard; The Savages; Palindromes; Center Stage; Devil's Advocate; In & Out; Extreme Measures; The Bridges of Madison County; Jeffrey; and Fearless.
She has starred on Broadway in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Curtains (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination); Chicago; Reckless; Thou Shalt Not; Ah
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Katie Daniel grew up dancing in Metro Detroit with big dreams of making it in New York City from a young age. She trained in several different dance styles, but jazz and character heels stole her heart! She trained many summers at the Nevada Ballet Theatre, and the Rockette Summer Intensive and eventually put her training to the test at auditions in NYC. Before heading to “The Big Apple” she participated in The Miss America scholarship program where she landed second runner up and talent winner to Miss Michigan 2018. At 18 years old she took her chances at the