INT/ADV DANCE (Cody Smith) • August 12

class description

“Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast

Intermediate/Advanced

Learn an organized warmup and a combination from a Broadway musical. Great for dancers of all experience, and those who want to work on picking up dance combinations at a quicker pace. (Every dance class will be a different instructor/song!!)

Date
Wednesday, August 12

Time
7:00PM-8:15PM EST

Instructor
Cody Smith

Meet Cody

Cody Smith is a performer, director and choreographer hailing from Lancaster,PA. He has been a dancer/swing in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in New York for the past 18 years. He has toured with the Christmas Spectacular and with Beauty and the Beast. Other New York performance credits include: ABC Daytime Salutes Broadway concert (4 years), School Daze at the New York Musical Theatre Festival, and a guest artist with the Synthesis Dance Project. He has also performed regionally in Brigadoon at the Marriott Theater in Chicago and in many productions at the Fulton Theatre in Lancaster. Those credits include: Brigadoon, Hello Dolly!, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, A Chorus Line, Joseph, The Little Mermaid, Anne of Green Gables, Shrek, Newsies, Pinnochio. Cody is the director of the Hempfield Dance Theatre program. He has choreographed Guys and Dolls and Big, The Musical for the Fulton as well as direct Aladdin. Further, he has directed/choreographed numerous shows for Ephrata Performing Arts Center, the Hempfield Music program, Ephrata HS, Cedar Crest HS, the Cobalt Dance Company, and Rev9 Dance Company. His EPAC credits include: Legally Blonde (2014), Xanadu (2012), 13 the Musical (2011), Equus (2011), Altar Boyz (2009), Bat Boy (2004), Sweet Charity (2004), Cabaret (2003), Follies (2003), Chicago (2002), Kiss Me Kate (2001), Oklahoma (2001), Rocky Horror Show (2001), Assassins (2000), La Cage Aux Folles (1999). Cody is a member of Actors’ Equity and the American Guild of Variety Artists.