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Jen Turey's professional performing experience includes the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular as a Rockette, touring throughout the US, Canada and Europe with the Broadway National and International tours of 42nd Street, Crazy for You, and The Will Rogers Follies and regionally at Northshore Music Theatre (Cabaret and 42 Street), The Cape Playhouse (Erma in Anything Goes...read more
Jen Turey's professional performing experience includes the Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular as a Rockette, touring throughout the US, Canada and Europe with the Broadway National and International tours of 42nd Street, Crazy for You, and The Will Rogers Follies and regionally at Northshore Music Theatre (Cabaret and 42 Street), The Cape Playhouse (Erma in Anything Goes), Westchester Broadway Theatre (Crazy for You and Good News), The Reagle Players (Crazy for You, Guys and Dolls, Gloria in Bye Bye Birdie, Showboat, Gertie in Oklahoma, The Will Rogers Follies and My One and Only) and The Shubert Theatre in New Haven, CT (Erma in Anything Goes).
Her professional choreography career has brought her to the Weston Playhouse (The Light in the Piazza and the world premiere of Saint-Ex), Merry-Go-Round Playhouse (Crazy for You, No, No, Nanette and Thoroughly Modern Millie) The Reagle Players (Crazy for You - Co-Director and The Will Rogers Follies - Assistant Choreographer), Richter Park (Pippin, Crazy For You, Funny Girl, 42nd Street and 9 to 5) and Western Connecticut State University (The Donkey Show, Bat Boy, Marat/Sade, Spring Awakening, Anything Goes, et al.) where she is also an adjunct professor.
Jen also holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts with an Acting concentration from Hunter College, an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, and is currently pursuing a doctorate in Dance Education at Teachers College Columbia University. Jen is a proud member of the Actor’s Equity Association and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers. Her teaching career has brought her all over the country bringing her expertise to Burklyn Ballet Theatre, NOCCA, local studios, conventions, summer intensives and other performing arts institutions. Jen also adjudicates dance competitions all over the country and is a certified Progressing Ballet Technique, Rhythm Works, and Acrobatic Arts instructor.
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Jen’s training and performance experience encompasses a wide range of styles and instructors and she brings that experience to her classes and choreography. Classes will blend exercises in ballet, modern, and jazz to build strength, stamina, body placement and alignment awareness. Progressions across the floor will encourage personal performance choices, confidence, and traveling through space. Combinations will focus on style, musicality, and developing one’s artistic voice. Creating a safe space in which dancers are able to take risks, to find what works individually, to bond as a community, and to let go of expectations is of utmost importance. Dancers are encouraged to be present, work past their maximum, and take pride in their accomplishments.
Jen is an accomplished rhythm tap and Broadway style tap dance artist, educator, and choreographer and brings her expertise to every class. Structure will include a warm up with drills that physically warm up the body, develop clarity and speed. Across the floor progressions will promote traveling and upper body connection. The final portion of the class will include a combination of material to challenge every level. The history of the art form is a very important aspect in her curriculum and she will regularly share this valuable knowledge along with exciting footwork and technique.
BDC offers more than 350 drop-in classes a week!
Walk-ins welcome. All levels and styles.
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