UPDATES
Kathleen Nanni, of Broadway's Mary Poppins has permanently joined the NSDDA staff and will be teaching Intermediate Jazz and Advanced Jazz on Tuesday nights. The Next Stage is honored to have her on staff and is pleased that our students will be benefiting from her expert instruction.
Courtney Daniels, the owner of NSDDA, will be performing in the Cherry Hill Education Foundation's, Dancing with the Cherry Hill Stars! in April. She will be performing with Mr. Jeff Heller, the VP of Beck Middle School. Don't miss this fantastic event! More info to come...
Former Miss New Jersey to teach at the Next Stage:
A new addition to the Barrington arts scene is Miss New Jersey 2004, Erica Scanlon, who will be teaching musical theatre dance and drama at the Next Stage on Clements Bridge Road. Ms.Harr is a graduate of The New School for Drama (Manhattan) and holds an MFA in Acting. For more information about Erica please visit our instructors page.
The Ritz Theatre's 2008 production of FOOTLOOSE received 4 out of 4 stars from Robert Baxter of the Courier Post. Ms. Daniels, NSDDA's artistic director, received the following review regarding her choreography:
"Courtney Daniels dazzles the eye with her choreography. The dancing never seems to stop, and Daniels never fails to build each sequence to an explosion of colorful movement...The dancing electric."
The Next Stage Brings Broadway to Barrington:
Original and current cast member of Broadway's Mary Poppins, Kathleen Nanni, instructing over 25 dancers at the Next Stage Dance & Drama Academy's Dance Intensive. Students learned choreography from hit musical numbers such as Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious and other popular hits from the Broadway musical. Miss Nanni gave the students insider tips on how to audition, what its like to be in a Broadway musical and how to succeed as a professional dancer. To see our dancers in action visit the gallery page.