Todd Shanks/Guest Teacher

TODD SHANKS

Todd Shanks has been teaching and choreographing all over the country for over 10 years.  His travels have also taken him to Canada, Mexico and Columbia, South America.  His choreography has been featured on “The View”, ABC Nightly News, The MSG Network, NY1, CW 11, and at NYC’s Carnival, Steps on Broadway’s Faculty in Performance, the 2007 Yankee FanFest and “The Game is in Us” (a Nike spec commercial).  He has also choreographed for CityKids, the Cancer Dancers, and numerous award-winning dance studios.

Todd has been featured in Dance, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher and Dancer Magazines.

As a performer Todd has danced in music videos, commercials, industrials and television programs including, “The Electric Company”, Kimberly Clark, “The View”, Sean Kingston, Volvo, Ford Motors, Race for the Cure, Wrigley’s, Paramount Pictures, “Good Day NY”, Lance Armstrong Foundation, Pilsen Beer, the United Way, UFO Jeans, 1010 WINS, Hope and Heroes, and the Lyme Disease Foundation.  On stage he has performed with Synthesis Dance Project, Jette Performance Company, The Westchester Philharmonic, SDCF Dance Break, the 2006 Miss Florida Pageant, and Off Broadway Workshops of Halftime and On the Edge.  He also co-created and starred in From Tap to Hip Hop, a Brief History, an educational show for teenagers.

Todd has taught for the University of Florida, the Ailey Extension, Ballet Hispanico, Dance Masters of America, Princeton Dance and Theater Studio, Dance New Amsterdam, Florida Dance Masters and many private dance studios throughout the United States.  He currently teaches at Steps on Broadway, The School at Steps, The Bridge for Dance and on tour with Manhattan Dance Project.