Mindy Jackson, the Steps Conservatory director and a recent school member at Steps on Broadway in NYC, says, “a flexible dancer is a working dancer.” Moderately than being break up into commercial-dance and concert-dance tracks, all college students within the Steps on Broadway Conservatory observe a curriculum that features ballet and pointe, theater, classical jazz, up to date, fashionable, hip hop, performing, vocal, visitor choreography, and world dance types. “Types are fusing,” says Jackson of the present dance business. “Broadway isn’t only one be aware; up to date [and] live performance dancers are requested to vocalize onstage, inform tales of their motion.”
Class assignments might place paired “buddy” dancers collectively, be divided by technical degree, or be randomly chosen, permitting for the best breadth of in-studio expertise. The 2-year program has 50 to 60 dancers, with 10 to 30 dancers per class. This setting provides an ideal steadiness between extremely customized coaching and real-world talent constructing. “Our studios at Steps are massive sufficient for this quantity to offer sufficient house for full-out dancing, individualized consideration, and the observe of crowded audition rooms and spatial consciousness,” says Jackson.
If the concrete jungle outdoors the studio appears daunting, college students can discover a sense of belonging at Steps. “The dancers within the Conservatory are usually not from NYC. These younger adults are coming from throughout the nation and world to check with us, so guaranteeing they really feel this sense of residence away from house is paramount,” says Jackson. The school fosters an setting that’s each nurturing and difficult. “They’re encouraging, supportive, and agency with the scholars to uphold the values and to work to their fullest potential,” says Jackson.
The Steps Conservatory cultivates dancers who can work alongside one of the best in NYC and past. “Creatives need to work with dancers who’re confidently and authentically themselves, able to contribute one thing to the method and house,” says Jackson.
Steps Conservatory
Program dimension: 50–60
Age vary: 17–24
Efficiency alternatives: New York Jazz Choreography Venture, Steps Past Basis Efficiency Labs, Pupil Choreography Showcase, Finish-Of-Semester Showcase, Steps Business Showcase, Steps in Live performance, Steps Academy showcases, and lots of different one-off performances within the Steps studios and elsewhere
Tuition: $14,750/12 months ($29,500 for two years); costs are topic to alter.
Room/board: Steps has quite a few housing associates. Direct contact info is shared with accepted college students, and the areas are inside an affordable commuting distance to Steps.
Day by day schedule: Monday by means of Friday, 9 am–5 pm. College students even have the chance to take Steps Open Program courses, which go till 10 pm some nights.
Alumni: The Outsiders on Broadway; cruise ships and theme parks, together with Royal Caribbean, Disney World and Disney Treasure, Six Flags, and RWS International; Broadway Bares; signed with quite a lot of brokers; worldwide and nationwide excursions; regional theater productions; up to date and fashionable dance corporations together with Pilobolus; choreographers and producers of their very own work; academics throughout the nation and overseas; and extra
Extra alternatives: Steps in Live performance, Dance Studio Alliance annual performances, Earl Mosley Range of Dance annual profit concert events, video initiatives, particular visitor performances, media protection, auditions for companies and casting corporations, assistant positions with skilled choreographers, and extra
Essential dates: Jazz Choreography Venture: October 26, 2 pm and 5 pm, Martha Graham Studios; Spring 2026 software due: November 1; Steps Past Basis Choreography Lab: November 16, 8 pm, Steps Studio Theater; Pupil Choreography Showcase: December 13–14, 7:30 pm and eight:30 pm, Steps Studio Theater; Conservatory Winter Showcase: December 15, 7 pm, Ailey Citigroup Theater; Earl Mosley: January 17–18, 2026, location TBD; Fall 2026 software due: March 1, 2026
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