This course focuses on the dancing techniques that are unique to the profession of musical theater. This process will advance one’s understanding of what it means to be an actor/performer.  A course like this deals with aspects like body position, dance technique, and an understanding of past and present professional choreographers. We will go through the process of starting with George Balanchine and the Ziegfield Follies. We will move into choreographers like Fosse, Gower Champion, Jerome Robbins, and Michael Bennet. It ends with recent choreographers like Andy Blankenbuahler and Savion Glover. An extension of this curriculum will be studying the shows the choreographers worked on.