EveryBody Dances with Lainie Sakakura

EveryBody Dances @ Yale Schwarzman Center brings local and visiting dance artists to our Dance Studio to teach masterclasses in jazz, hip hop, salsa, modern, contemporary, precision dance and more! All community members are welcome. 

To launch our fall season Lainie Sakakura will teach two theater dance classes with a focus on classical jazz dance techniques.

• 11am: Beginner to advanced beginner class.
• 12:45pm: Intermediate to advanced class.  

Laine Sakakura  is a NYC based director, award winning choreographer (Joe A. Callaway Award & Joseph Jefferson Award recipient), Tony nominated Broadway co-producer with Theatre Producers of Color, librettist, educator, and long time advocate for diversity and inclusion in the performing arts. Most recently she received great notices for her work directing LIZZIE at TheaterWorks Hartford and for choreographing THE FROGS at the Rose Theater at Jazz Lincoln Center directed by Ted Sperling and hosted by Nathan Lane. Directed and choreographed CARRIE at Madison Theatre, CAP21 Molloy University. Ms Sakakura continues to seek out and create work that inspires her everyday to lift and support her community. In 2022 she conceived and directed MY APPI BROADWAY STORY: BREAKING BARRIERS, Lincoln Center Public Library for the Performing Arts (Archival viewing TOFT).  Book & Direction for CORNER OF BITTER AND SWEET, the musical adaptation of The New York Times Bestseller, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, Music/Lyrics by Paul Fujimoto.

WEBSITE lainiesakakura.com

READ Why Don't We Dance More, in The New York Times.

READ 'You Think, So You Can Dance?' Science Is on It., in The New York Times.