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Cast of Experts

Chita Rivera and Graciela Daniele

NEW YORK

Chita Rivera – Multi Award winning Broadway legend + Jack Cole and Fosse Protégé

Susan Stroman – Five time Tony Award winner including THE PRODUCERS

Andy Blankenbuehler – Two time Tony Award winner, including HAMILTON

Jerry Mitchell – Two time Tony Award winner, including KINKY BOOTS

Chet Walker – Tony nominee (PIPPIN) + Jack Cole and Fosse expert

Josh Bergasse – Multi Award winning Choreographer (including SMASH)

Graciela Daniele – Multi Award Winning Choreographer

Baayork Lee – Original Cast member ‘A CHORUS LINE‘

Drew McOnie – Award winning choreographer including STRICTLY BALLROOM

Billy Sigenfeld – Jazz Dance Professor + Artistic Director – Jump Rhythm Jazz Project

William Waldinger – Luigi expert

Nan Giordano – Artistic Director Giordano Dance, Chicago

Karen Hubbard – Jazz Dance Professor

Danny Buraczeski – Educator

Robin Gee – African Dance expert

Sekou McMiller – Latin Dance expert & choreographer

Wendy Oliver & Lindsay Guarino – Authors of “Jazz Dance, A History of Roots and Branches“

Al Blackstone – Choreographer (SYTYCD)

Felipe Galganni – Tap expert

Mimi Quillin – Fosse expert

Lloyd Culbreath – Fosse expert

Sue Samuels – Director, Jazz Roots Dance Co.

Camille Brown – Award Winning Choreographer

Tom Ralabate – Jazz Dance expert and professor

Bob Boross – Matt Mattox Expert and Educator

Mishay Petronelli – Janet Jackson dancer, The Greatest Showman

Warren Carlyle – Tony Award Winner AFTER MIDNIGHT

Francis J Roach – Luigi Master teacher

George Faison – Multi Award winning Choreographer, Dir: Faison Firehouse Theatre, original Ailey Dancer

Brenda Bufalino – Tap Legend

Melanie George – Choreographer,Educator, Dir: Jazz Is Project

Jason Samuel Smith – Tap Expert, choreographer

Linda Murray – Curator NYPL – Jerome Robbins Dance Division

Thomas DeFrantz – Professor, African American Studies and Dance, Duke University, Author

LOS ANGELES

Mandy Moore – Award Winning Film Choreographer including LA LA LAND

Sandahl Bergman – Original Fosse Dancer

Moncell Durden – Hip hop expert

Derek Mitchell – Hip Hop expert

Kim Morgan Greene – Fosse Protege

Saleemah Knight – Dance HIstorian, Choreographer

Travis Payne – Michael Jackson’s Choreographer

Lynn Simonson – Educator, Simonson Technique

Debbie Allen – Emmy and Golden Globe Award Winner – Dance educator, producer, director

Walter Painter – Emmy Award winning choreographer

Phil LaDuca – Choreographer, Owner LaDuca Shoes

LONDON

Craig Revel Horwood – Choreographer/director + Judge – Strictly Come Dancing

Arlene Phillips CBE – Choreographer, Stage & Screen + Judge – Strictly Come Dancing

Mitch Sebastian – Olivier Nominee + International Choreographer/director

Jreena Green – Lindy Hop expert + Dance Historian

Nikki Woollaston – Matt Mattox expert/choreographer

Ash Mukhurjee – Indian Dance expert

Dollie Henry & Paul Jenkins – BOP Jazz Co Directors

Dougie Squires – OBE / TV Choreographer

Dean Lee – Choreographer including X-Factor

Lucie Pankhurst – Choreographer

Chrissie Cartwright – Ass. choreographer to Gillian Lynne

Andrew Wright – Olivier Nominee Choreographer

Bonnie Langford – MT Veteran

Sam Modeste – Jazz educator

PARIS

Rick Odums – Founder, Centre International de Danse de Jazz

Martine Mattox – Dancer, Choreographer

CANADA

Natasha Powell – Choreographer, Founder – Holla Jazz

Vicki Adams Willis – Founder in Residence, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

Kimberley Cooper – Artistic Director, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

Kathi Sundstrom – Executive Director, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

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