The Radio City Rockettes are a famous dance team in New York City. This year, the first college-level class ever taught by a current member of the dance group is very popular at a Boston school for the arts.
Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was 2, but the 20-year-old college junior has never taken a dance class quite as challenging as the one she’s in now.
Rhapsody Stiggers has been dancing since she was 2, but the 20-year-old college junior has never taken a dance class quite as challenging as the one she s in now.
The class, taught by a current Rockette, focuses on their meticulously precise technique, based on tap, ballet and jazz, in which the dancers move and kick in perfect synchronicity. The course also teaches strength training, choreography and lessons that can be applied to pretty much any dance genre.
38 students at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee are learning to do the high kicks made famous by the Radio City Rockettes – and getting class credit to boot!