Tag: rockettes

6 Tips for Better Group Work, From the Coach Who’s Trained 51 Rockettes

Odds are, your dancers spent a large portion of the last year and a half dancing alone in their living rooms. Unfortunately, that may mean they’ve lost some of the group chemistry that makes their recital and competition dances so precise and compelling. One person who knows about precise and compelling group chemistry: Rhonda Malkin, […]

Which Broadway Shows Are Performing in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?

As you’re prepping your Thanksgiving meal, why not throw in a dash of dance? This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is stuffed (pun intended) with performances from four stellar Broadway shows, the Radio City Rockettes and students from three New York City dance institutions. Tune in to NBC November 28 from 9 am to noon […]

Prepare Your Students for Their Best Audition Ever With These 6 Strategies

William Whitener held countless auditions when he directed The Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Kansas City Ballet and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, and he himself learned from legendary choreographers Jerome Robbins and Bob Fosse about what it takes to make it on Broadway. Now he coaches ballet students on these skills when he guest teaches around […]

Celebrate the History of the Rockettes This Saturday

This Saturday, June 3, at 6 pm, a line of former Rockettes will perform at the Miller Theatre at Columbia University alongside Maurice Hines, Sandy Duncan, Don Correia and Rosemary Novellino-Mearns in “Rockettes and the Stars.” The event celebrates the history of the Radio City Rockettes and the art of precision dance, with guest speakers […]