Broadway Theater Dance Workshop

Ann Reinking – Special guest and master teacher
Patricia Birch – Special guest
Tim Santos, Director of BTDW, theater dance, and tap
Russell Baker – Ballet
Laura Bergquist – Voice
Michael Duran – Acting
Lesley Jennings –Associate Art Director of BTDW, theater dance
Elaine Winslow-Redmond – Guest instructor, injury prevention & management, and dance conditioning
Jim Ruttman – Theater dance
Germaine Salsberg – Tap

Tim Santos, Director started performing in the Christmas Spectacular at New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall in 1994. His roles have included Swing, Dance Captain, Assistant Choreographer and Assistant Director. He has played a large part in auditioning, casting, rehearsing, workshopping and maintaining the world famous Radio City Rockettes and the men and women of the Radio City Ensemble. He remains a member of the Creative Staff as well as well as a performing member of the Ensemble.

Tim's training began in Akron, OH, and his professional dance career took off in productions of the The Metropolitan Opera (Aida, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Samson et Dalila, La Gioconda and Die Fledermaus), the Cleveland Opera (Faust, Lucia di Lammermore and The Merry Widow) and the Houston Grand Opera (Aida). He was the assistant to Herbert Ross for Jubilee! At Carnegie Hall. He has appeared in many regional productions including The Wizard of Oz at Actor's Theater of Louisville, Evita at Houston's Theater Under the Stars, and Gigi, On the Town, Camelot and Phantom at Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera. His favorite TV credits include the ABC remake of Bye Bye Birdie, choreographed by Ann Reinking, the Super Bowl XXXIV half-time show and The Conan O'Brien Show. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association, Screen Actor's Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the American Guild of Musical Artists and the American Guild of Variety Artists.

Tim is an Artistic Advisor for Rosie's Broadway Kids - a new arts education program founded by Rosie O'Donnell, which brings a professional Broadway experience to 5th grade students in the New York City Public Schools. He has also worked extensively as a teacher and choreographer for the National Dance Institute in New York City. Tim is thrilled to be bringing his love of musical theater and dance to more young performers as the Artistic Director of Broadway Theater Dance Workshop.

Russell Baker began dancing at Vassar College and received an MFA in Ballet Teaching and Choreography from the University of Utah. He danced professionally with the Kansas City Ballet for ten years, performing a wide variety of principal, soloist, corps de ballet, and character roles, and he taught ballet at the Kansas City Ballet School prior to moving to Santa Fe in 2001. In 1999, Russell founded the Kansas City Contemporary Dance Ensemble, which presented free outdoor performances. In 2002, The Kansas City Ballet premiered his ballet, The Cloud Chamber. He attended NDI-NM's Teaching Excellence training workshop in 2001, and has taught in the public school outreach program and in the after-school advanced training programs since that date. Russell is currently NDI-NM’s Santa Fe Artistic Director

Laura Bergquist conducted National and International Tours of THE KING AND I, TITANIC and MISS SAIGON. She is a frequent guest conductor in regional theaters and a clinician in universities and churches. As an ASCAP Awards recipient for composition, her personal catalogue includes more than 60 works in print and several recordings. Laura was the original Musical Director for JANE EYRE as well as a contributing arranger on the Toronto cast recording. She was the Musical Director for new workshops of WILD GOAT (Mark Hollmann & Jack Helbig), URBAN MYTHS (John Buchinno), SING ME A HAPPY SONG (Georgia Stitt & David Kirschenbaum), SIDD (Andrew Frank & Doug Silver) and THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis & David Petrarcca). Regional work as Musical Director and Conductor at Lyric Theater of Oklahoma, Music Theatre of Wichita, Stage One and Atlanta’s Theatre of the Stars. Laura also performs with NY Cabaret performer, Steve Ross, maintains a large coaching studio and directs the choir at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. She teaches at NYU in the Tisch School of the Arts for Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, co-teaches The Gym with director, John Ruocco and is regularly called on as a musical director for auditions, workshops and showcases. Laura arrived in New York City in the spring of 2003 from Wichita, Kansas where she taught high-school music and drama as well as serving as an adjunct faculty member at Friends University teaching choral and instrumental arranging and was Assistant Conductor of The Singing Quakers. She is married and the proud mom of 3 adult children.

Michael Duran is currently the Artistic Director and Producer at Boulder's Dinner Theatre in Boulder, CO after a successful 23 year career in New York City. His Broadway credits include The Music Man , Crazy for You, Me and My Girl, Into the Light, and (pre-Broadway) Annie 2. Michael has toured and played London's West End in Damn Yankees. Television appearances include Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Irving Berlin's 100 Birthday Celebration at Carnegie Hall (PBS), and The National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped in New York City.

Lesley Jennings had the privilege of performing on Broadway in Grease! and The Music Man. She toured the U.S. and Canada in the first National Tour of the same production of Grease! for several wonderful years, and appeared in many different roles. She appeared in numerous regional productions at North Shore Musical Theater, Kansas City Starlight, Cleveland Playhouse and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and has assisted directors and choreographers in several. Lesley has danced in many, many Christmas Spectaculars at the beautiful Radio City Music Hall. She has taught theater dance to NYC public school children in 2 separate and fantastic organizations – Rosie’s Broadway Kids and National Dance Institute of NY. She was raised and trained in Oklahoma and holds a B.P.A. from Oklahoma City University. Lesley now resides in Oklahoma with her husband and son and continues her work with theaters, private studios and public schools there. She is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association and the American Guild of Variety Artists.

Elaine Winslow-Redmond, MS, ATC, performed with the Radio City Rockettes
for 11 years. As an athletic trainer, she has created a wellness program
for the Rockettes and now is head athletic trainer and Athletic
Training Program director for the troupe. She also has served as an
athletic training consultant for Blue Man Group, the New York Knicks
City Dancers, Tap Kids and New York City Dance Alliance.
Winslow-Redmond is a member of the National Athletic Trainers'
Association (NATA) and the Council on Employment for the NATA. She has
a bachelor of fine arts degree in dance from the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst and a master of science degree in applied
physiology and nutrition from Columbia University.

Jim Ruttman appeared on Broadway in A Chorus Line, Cats, Barnum, Damn Yankees, and Side Show. He has worked as a choreographer at favorite regional theaters throughout the country including the Sacramento Music Circus (Mame, My Fair Lady) Musical Theater of San Jose (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), Long Beach Civic Light Opera (No, No, Nanette) and Stages St. Louis (A Chorus Line). Jim is also an Artist-in-Residence at the elite Princeton Day School where he has taught and choreographed students since 1996. For the past seven winters, he has appeared in The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. He has danced with stars of stage and screen - Sarah Jessica Parker in the film Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and the late Gregory Hines in Tap. Jim can also frequently be seen on television, most notably on The Late Show with David Letterman as Dave's stunt double.

Germaine Salsberg began her career as a child actress, performing on radio and television in her native Canada. She became a founding member and soloist with the Toronto Dance Theatre; a Graham-based modern dance repertory company, and performed and toured with that company for seven years, appearing in Canada, the U.S., and Europe.

After moving to New York, Germaine discovered tap dancing and fell in love with it. She has become one of the most popular and influential tap dance teachers in New York today. She has been on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center for almost 20 years, where she teaches a complete tap program of basic to intermediate levels. Her students include cast members from Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, National tours, the Rockettes, Broadway choreographers, as well as people who “just love to tap”.

In addition, Germaine has taught at the Dance Theater of Harlem, Musical Theatre major students from New York University at Cap 21 in New York, and is presently on the faculty of NYU’s School of Education, also teaching Musical Theater majors. Germaine has privately coached stars from the New York City Ballet and many actors and actresses, including Liza Minelli for the movie Steppin Out. She is a frequent guest teacher throughout the U.S., and Canada, giving workshops and teaching choreography in Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Austria, and Germany. She has taught for every major dance organization including DMA, DEA, Dance Olympus, PDTA, NAADA, NYC Dance Alliance as well as private organizations & schools.

As assistant to Tony Award Winner Danny Daniels, Germaine helped train the boys for the Broadway and National tours of Tap Dance Kid. Besides her own concert work, Germaine has choreographed productions of George M! (Mount Washington Valley Playhouse),42nd Street(1996), Anything Goes (1998), Crazy For You (2001), and Dames At Sea (2002) for the Muhlenberg Summer Theater in Pennsylvania. She taught and performed at the Edmonton Fringe Festival and the New York City International Tap Festival from 2001 to 2004.

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	Ann Reinking – Special guest and master teacher Patricia Birch – Special guest Tim Santos, Director of BTDW, theater dance, and tap Russell Baker – Ballet Laura Bergquist – Voice Michael Duran – Acting Lesley Jennings –Associate Art Director of BTDW, theater dance Elaine Winslow-Redmond – Guest instructor, injury prevention & management, and dance conditioning Jim Ruttman – Theater dance Germaine Salsberg – Tap Tim Santos, Director started performing in the Christmas Spectacular at New York City's famed Radio City Music Hall in 1994. His roles have included Swing, Dance Captain, Assistant Choreographer and Assistant Director. He has played a large part in auditioning, casting, rehearsing, workshopping and maintaining the world famous Radio City Rockettes and the men and women of the Radio City Ensemble. He remains a member of the Creative Staff as well as well as a performing member of the Ensemble. Tim's training began in Akron, OH, and his professional dance career took off in productions of the The Metropolitan Opera (Aida, La Traviata, Don Giovanni, Samson et Dalila, La Gioconda and Die Fledermaus), the Cleveland Opera (Faust, Lucia di Lammermore and The Merry Widow) and the Houston Grand Opera (Aida). He was the assistant to Herbert Ross for Jubilee! At Carnegie Hall. He has appeared in many regional productions including The Wizard of Oz at Actor's Theater of Louisville, Evita at Houston's Theater Under the Stars, and Gigi, On the Town, Camelot and Phantom at Pittsburgh's Civic Light Opera. His favorite TV credits include the ABC remake of Bye Bye Birdie, choreographed by Ann Reinking, the Super Bowl XXXIV half-time show and The Conan O'Brien Show. He is a member of Actor's Equity Association, Screen Actor's Guild, the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, the American Guild of Musical Artists and the American Guild of Variety Artists. Tim is an Artistic Advisor for Rosie's Broadway Kids - a new arts education program founded by Rosie O'Donnell, which brings a professional Broadway experience to 5th grade students in the New York City Public Schools. He has also worked extensively as a teacher and choreographer for the National Dance Institute in New York City. Tim is thrilled to be bringing his love of musical theater and dance to more young performers as the Artistic Director of Broadway Theater Dance Workshop. Russell Baker began dancing at Vassar College and received an MFA in Ballet Teaching and Choreography from the University of Utah. He danced professionally with the Kansas City Ballet for ten years, performing a wide variety of principal, soloist, corps de ballet, and character roles, and he taught ballet at the Kansas City Ballet School prior to moving to Santa Fe in 2001. In 1999, Russell founded the Kansas City Contemporary Dance Ensemble, which presented free outdoor performances. In 2002, The Kansas City Ballet premiered his ballet, The Cloud Chamber. He attended NDI-NM's Teaching Excellence training workshop in 2001, and has taught in the public school outreach program and in the after-school advanced training programs since that date. Russell is currently NDI-NM’s Santa Fe Artistic Director Laura Bergquist conducted National and International Tours of THE KING AND I, TITANIC and MISS SAIGON. She is a frequent guest conductor in regional theaters and a clinician in universities and churches. As an ASCAP Awards recipient for composition, her personal catalogue includes more than 60 works in print and several recordings. Laura was the original Musical Director for JANE EYRE as well as a contributing arranger on the Toronto cast recording. She was the Musical Director for new workshops of WILD GOAT (Mark Hollmann & Jack Helbig), URBAN MYTHS (John Buchinno), SING ME A HAPPY SONG (Georgia Stitt & David Kirschenbaum), SIDD (Andrew Frank & Doug Silver) and THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Mark Hollmann, Greg Kotis & David Petrarcca). Regional work as Musical Director and Conductor at Lyric Theater of Oklahoma, Music Theatre of Wichita, Stage One and Atlanta’s Theatre of the Stars. Laura also performs with NY Cabaret performer, Steve Ross, maintains a large coaching studio and directs the choir at Redeemer Presbyterian Church. She teaches at NYU in the Tisch School of the Arts for Playwrights Horizons Theatre School, co-teaches The Gym with director, John Ruocco and is regularly called on as a musical director for auditions, workshops and showcases. Laura arrived in New York City in the spring of 2003 from Wichita, Kansas where she taught high-school music and drama as well as serving as an adjunct faculty member at Friends University teaching choral and instrumental arranging and was Assistant Conductor of The Singing Quakers. She is married and the proud mom of 3 adult children. Michael Duran is currently the Artistic Director and Producer at Boulder's Dinner Theatre in Boulder, CO after a successful 23 year career in New York City. His Broadway credits include The Music Man , Crazy for You, Me and My Girl, Into the Light, and (pre-Broadway) Annie 2. Michael has toured and played London's West End in Damn Yankees. Television appearances include Law and Order, Law and Order: SVU, Irving Berlin's 100 Birthday Celebration at Carnegie Hall (PBS), and The National Theatre Workshop of the Handicapped in New York City. Lesley Jennings had the privilege of performing on Broadway in Grease! and The Music Man. She toured the U.S. and Canada in the first National Tour of the same production of Grease! for several wonderful years, and appeared in many different roles. She appeared in numerous regional productions at North Shore Musical Theater, Kansas City Starlight, Cleveland Playhouse and Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and has assisted directors and choreographers in several. Lesley has danced in many, many Christmas Spectaculars at the beautiful Radio City Music Hall. She has taught theater dance to NYC public school children in 2 separate and fantastic organizations – Rosie’s Broadway Kids and National Dance Institute of NY. She was raised and trained in Oklahoma and holds a B.P.A. from Oklahoma City University. Lesley now resides in Oklahoma with her husband and son and continues her work with theaters, private studios and public schools there. She is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association and the American Guild of Variety Artists. Elaine Winslow-Redmond, MS, ATC, performed with the Radio City Rockettes for 11 years. As an athletic trainer, she has created a wellness program for the Rockettes and now is head athletic trainer and Athletic Training Program director for the troupe. She also has served as an athletic training consultant for Blue Man Group, the New York Knicks City Dancers, Tap Kids and New York City Dance Alliance. Winslow-Redmond is a member of the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and the Council on Employment for the NATA. She has a bachelor of fine arts degree in dance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a master of science degree in applied physiology and nutrition from Columbia University. Jim Ruttman appeared on Broadway in A Chorus Line, Cats, Barnum, Damn Yankees, and Side Show. He has worked as a choreographer at favorite regional theaters throughout the country including the Sacramento Music Circus (Mame, My Fair Lady) Musical Theater of San Jose (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers), Long Beach Civic Light Opera (No, No, Nanette) and Stages St. Louis (A Chorus Line). Jim is also an Artist-in-Residence at the elite Princeton Day School where he has taught and choreographed students since 1996. For the past seven winters, he has appeared in The Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. He has danced with stars of stage and screen - Sarah Jessica Parker in the film Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and the late Gregory Hines in Tap. Jim can also frequently be seen on television, most notably on The Late Show with David Letterman as Dave's stunt double. Germaine Salsberg began her career as a child actress, performing on radio and television in her native Canada. She became a founding member and soloist with the Toronto Dance Theatre; a Graham-based modern dance repertory company, and performed and toured with that company for seven years, appearing in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. After moving to New York, Germaine discovered tap dancing and fell in love with it. She has become one of the most popular and influential tap dance teachers in New York today. She has been on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center for almost 20 years, where she teaches a complete tap program of basic to intermediate levels. Her students include cast members from Broadway and Off-Broadway shows, National tours, the Rockettes, Broadway choreographers, as well as people who “just love to tap”. In addition, Germaine has taught at the Dance Theater of Harlem, Musical Theatre major students from New York University at Cap 21 in New York, and is presently on the faculty of NYU’s School of Education, also teaching Musical Theater majors. Germaine has privately coached stars from the New York City Ballet and many actors and actresses, including Liza Minelli for the movie Steppin Out. She is a frequent guest teacher throughout the U.S., and Canada, giving workshops and teaching choreography in Mexico, Brazil, Finland, Austria, and Germany. She has taught for every major dance organization including DMA, DEA, Dance Olympus, PDTA, NAADA, NYC Dance Alliance as well as private organizations & schools. As assistant to Tony Award Winner Danny Daniels, Germaine helped train the boys for the Broadway and National tours of Tap Dance Kid. Besides her own concert work, Germaine has choreographed productions of George M! (Mount Washington Valley Playhouse),42nd Street(1996), Anything Goes (1998), Crazy For You (2001), and Dames At Sea (2002) for the Muhlenberg Summer Theater in Pennsylvania. She taught and performed at the Edmonton Fringe Festival and the New York City International Tap Festival from 2001 to 2004. Back to top
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