Master Class with Danny Gardner of Beauty and the Beast

Workshops, Intensives, and Master Classes

Theater Tap Masterclass with Danny Gardner: Advanced Beginner/Slow Intermediate
Thursday, August 7 from 12:00-2:00pm
Youth Dance Ensemble (YDE) in Burnsville, Minnesota
Fee: $25 (Fee will be charged via card on file or ACH if enrolled at YDE)
Max number of 25 participants. Register here!

Class will last 1.5 hours followed by a 30 minute Q&A. Contact info@ydeschool.com for more information.

Danny Gardner is a Broadway actor, Choreographer and Dance Teacher. His Broadway credits include A Christmas Carol, Flying Over Sunset and Dames At Sea. His other New York Credits include Cheek to Cheek at the York Theater, Lady, Be Good! starring Tommy Tune in the Encores series at City Center, and the New York Spectacular starring the Radio City Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall. Danny has been in 3 National Tours, 42nd Street, White Christmas and the symphonic tour of Here To Stay – The Gershwin Experience. He is a company member of the Drama Desk nominated physical comedy theater troupe, Parallel Exit. He has created work and performed with Parallel Exit in New York City at 59E59 Street Theatres, The New Victory Theatre, Lincoln Center Institute and abroad in The Festival of Dreams in Innsbruck, Austria and in The Cos Festival in Rennes, Spain. He has also performed in shows across the nation at regional theaters in Crazy For You at the Signature Theater in Washington D.C., Mary Poppins at Theater Under The Stars in Houston, Texas, Show Boat at the Goodspeed Opera House in Connecticut, The Music Man at the Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, Florida, Singing in the Rain at the Marriott Lincolnshire just outside Chicago, Illinois and most recently Dial M For Murder at both the Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York and the Dallas Theatre Center in Dallas, Texas.

Danny’s choreography credits include: Assistant Choreographer to Michele Dorrance for Flying Over Sunset at Lincoln Center, resident choreographer for the 10 years of the concert series Broadway By The Year, GIG with Jenna Nichols (Picket Fences – the rope dance), the short film The Night Lives On (Raindance film festival in London), Room 17B, Exit Stage Left, and Everybody Gets Cake with the physical theatre company Parallel Exit, Mercury for Superhero Clubhouse, and multiple pieces for the Pacific Symphony Orchestra, the Connecticut Ballet and the Irish Repertory Theatre. Danny has taught tap dance all over the nation including at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center in New York City.