Bil Badolato

This class is designed to give the beginner an immediately successful experience in classical movement at a safe pace, training into the body a safe and fundamental technique, with an equal emphasis on strength and flexibility. This class is also suitable for the older or "out of practice" dancer who wishes to retain or "reclaim" shape. Similiar in format, Slow Int, is a little more rich in vocabulary and pace, with the aim of gently increasing vocabulary and range of movement.

Ballet

IL BADOLATO has performed since 1967 throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan, in musicals, operas and ballets for Alvin Ailey, Rob Marshall, Agnes Demille, Peter Gennaro, Liza Gennaro, George Balanchine, Peter Martins, Brian MacDonald, Dean Badolato, Graciella Danielle, Louis Johnson, Donald Saddler. Tod Bolender, Steven Cook, John Sharpe, Marcus Schulkind, Onna White, John Kriza, Zachary Solov, and Norman Walker.

Bil's choreography in concert dance, musical theatre, and at the Metropolitan Opera include I Vespri Siciliani, La Forza Del Destino, The Tender Land, The Nutcracker, Cinderella, Polyvetsian Dances, Bernstein's Mass, The Most Happy Fella, Guys and Dolls, She Loves Me, A Christmas Carol, Carousel, The Music Man, Brigadoon, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Tommy, Kankakee, Manon Lescaut Intermezzo, Solstice Ritual, Raining Love, and In the Lung, an anti-smoking ballet commissioned by the U.N.'s International Year of the Child.

Bil holds a degree in theatre from Northwestern University. He has taught ballet, character dance, and theatre dance for professionals, adult beginners, and students at The Fiorella LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts, the New York Conservatory of Dance, Dennis Wayne's DancerSchool, the Parish Dance Foundation, Hofstra University, the St. Louis Civic Ballet, the Mankato Ballet School, Wright State University, Ithaca College, the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, the Japanese foreign exchange program at Djoniba Drum and Dance Center, American Ballet Center of Long Island, New Dance Group Studios, and Queens College CUNY. He is currently teaching at New York University CAP 21, Peridance, and privately.