Broadway Connection Artistic Director Jennifer Jancuska connects with five of the season’s top Broadway dancers. Get to know them here!
Chloe Campbell – Cast of HAMILTON
What aspect of your show are you most excited for audiences to experience?
“I’m excited for audiences to experience the visual aspect of the show. I feel like a lot of people will know the music from the album and adding the visual of the show just enhances what you already know. It’s a full explosion of choreography, lights and costumes. It just enhances what you already know.”
What are you excited to teach students in your Broadway Connection classes that relates to your personal experience with the show?
“I’m excited to really work on character and interpretation of character through movement. That’s so important in musical theatre and necessary for dancers who want to go into musical theatre.”
Christopher Howard – Cast of AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
What aspect of your show are you most excited for audiences to experience?
“With An American In Paris, Christopher Wheeldon has done an extraordinary job integrating all aspects of the show in order to tell the cleanest, purest, most beautiful story possible. He has taken Gershwin’s legendary music and created choreography that not only highlights every single dancer on stage but serves to tell a beautiful story through both the simplest of gestures and the grandest of lifts and turns. Audiences will really connect with this show though the beautiful love story, the connections between the various characters, and the freedom they feel as they fly across the stage.”
What are you excited to teach students in your Broadway Connection classes that relates to your personal experience with the show?
“I cannot wait for these students to learn snippets of choreography in the style of Christopher Wheeldon’s work. Christopher’s work is very stylized and extremely specific, but all serves to further the story by developing characters and creating relationships. Though many of the steps are based around the classical ballet vernacular, students will see how we can modify these classical steps to meet our contemporary needs to create ballets that are graceful, edgy and creative, all while still sharing a beautiful story to this legendary music.”
Taylor N. Daniels – Cast of CINDERELLA
What aspect of your show are you most excited for audiences to experience?
“This show, Cinderella, shares a message of kindness that I think is so important to remind everyone of. In the world we live in generosity and kindness can never be mentioned enough. Also, I love seeing the children light up in the audience. This show is pure magic!”
What are you excited to teach students in your Broadway Connection classes that relates to your personal experience with the show?
“No matter how technically demanding a show can be the message and what you are trying to convey will always get you through. The dancing and singing in Cinderella is beautiful and when paired with the heart, love, kindness and magic the show soars!”
Adrianne Chu – Cast of FINDING NEVERLAND
What aspect of your show are you most excited for audiences to experience?
“Bringing light into any situation! There are so many wise words in our show that can be applied to our own lives.”
What are you excited to teach students in your Broadway Connection classes that relates to your personal experience with the show?
“How to find Neverland!!!”
Evan Mayer – Cast of A CHRISTMAS STORY
What aspect of your show are you most excited for audiences to experience?
“There’s something magical about the shows that are considered ‘holiday shows.’ The stories usually revolve around love and learning lessons as we travel through another year of our life. This story in particular relates to a family unit that goes through many ups and downs over the days leading up to Christmas. I think everyone in the audience will be able to relate to some aspect of their story, whether it be the stress of that time of year or the situations that Ralphie and his brother encounter at school. I’m most excited to get them in the holiday spirit and for them to take a trip down their own memory lane as they watch.”
What are you excited to teach students in your Broadway Connection classes that relates to your personal experience with the show?
“Since a lot of the dancing in the show is driven from actual everyday movement, I’m excited to explore with the students how dance is involved in our everyday life. Dancing is an expression when we can no longer speak or sing about a feeling. I can’t wait to incorporate this realistic style into their Broadway jazz backgrounds. My favorite part is to see how each individual puts their own flare on the movement!”
For more information on these artists and their classes, visit www.BroadwayConnection.net.
Collage (top): Hamilton performance snapshots. Photos courtesy of Hamilton Musical Instagram.
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