[NEohioPAL] Jazz and Ballet Master Classes this weekend

[Courtney Laves]

CLEVELAND CITY DANCE ANNOUNCES MASTER CLASSES…
  
Cleveland, Oh…Cleveland City Dance (13108 Shaker Square) announces MASTER CLASSES taught by Dancer, Choreographer, Educator, and Director Jeff Amsden from Los Angeles in collaboration with the Dance Stop Studio in Willoughby Ohio. 
  
When:  October 8 for Ages 8-11 at 5:00-6:30pm 
Where:  Dance Stop Studio (440-585-8803) 
               34301 Chardon Rd 
               Willoughby Hills, OH 44094 
Cost:  $35 
  
When:  October 10 for Ages 12 and up 
10:30am –12:00noon                  Intermediate and Advance Ballet 
12:30pm-2:00pm             Intermediate and Advance Jazz 
Where: Cleveland City Dance at historic Shaker Square    (216-295-2222) 
              13108 Shaker Square 
              Cleveland, OH 44120 
Cost:  $30 per class/ $50 for both classes 
  
Jeff was born in Spokane, Washington, and credits his mothers love of music and the fact that she danced while she was pregnant with him for his love of dance. At age14 he started taking tap and jazz but later he began ballet, which by age 16 was his focus. Jeff credits two of his teachers, Terry Grizzell and Peggy Goodner Tan, for his successful career by teaching him 10 years of ballet technique in the three years he studied with them and danced in their company, The Spokane Ballet. He created the role of Slave Master in the original Los Angeles cast of "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Michael Crawford, had the honor of doing pre-production work and working with the legendary choreographer Michael Kidd on the Academy Awards, worked with famed "Chicago" film choreographer and director Rob Marshall on Cinderella with Brandy and Whitney Houston, was in the original workshop for Jerome Robbins Broadway, toured the US with the Joffrey Ballet Concert
 Group for three years and was a soloist with the Chamber Ballet USA in New York City directed by Finis Jhung. 
  
Jeff also partnered with Paula Abdul and Gloria Estefan, appeared three times on The Tracy Ullman Show, and in films including "Back to the Future II," and "I’ll Do Anything" choreographed by Twyla Tharp. Jeff was an assistant choreographer for the original London production of "Saturday Night Fever" and the Houston Opera’s production of "Pagliacci". His credits as a choreographer also include Bette Midler’s 2000 concert in New York City, Fashion Rocks Broadway, The Elan Awards honoring Susan Stroman, and multiple productions of Broadway Bares, Grease for the esteemed Paper Mill Playhouse, and the daytime dramas Guiding Light and All My Children. The first episode he choreographed for All My Children had six dream sequences involving dance and won the Daytime Emmy Award for Best Direction. Jeff is most proud of the show he conceived, choreographed and directed, A Few Good Men Dancing, which enjoyed sold out shows at the New Victory Theater on
 Broadway, US tours, and a tour of the Netherlands. He has won numerous choreographic awards and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Dancers Responding to AIDS for the enormous contributions his shows and choreographic ventures have made to their organization.  

Courtney Laves-Mearini
Cleveland City Dance, Director
Home of The Cleveland City Dance Company
13108 Shaker Square
Cleveland, OH 44120
216-295-2222
www.clevelandcitydance.com


      
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