Ray Hesselink. Director / Choreographer.

STEPS on Broadway is hosting a Classical Indian Dance Workshop with the amazing Sujata Mohapatra (WATCH footage here).  This class is an INTRO class to a style called Odissi from the temples of Northeast India.  Learn hand gestures (mudras), graceful head/neck/torso isolations, and beautiful barefoot stomping patterns.  Come take this rare opportunity to study with India's greatest teacher!

Tuesday September 21st 7-9pm.  $20 if you pre-register before Sept. 21st.  $25 on day of master class (Sept 21st).  Click HERE for more info and to pre-register.

Wear comfortable and loose clothing (barefoot).

I recently had the honor of dancing with the amazingly talented kid, Jeremy Gumbs, at the STEPS Faculty concert. He WOWED the audience!

I have been mentoring Jeremy for the past 9 months.  And with all of his hard work, he booked the new Kander & Ebb Musical directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman called "Scottsboro Boys" playing out of town at the Guthrie Theater and then heading to Broadway at the Lyceum Theater.  

If you have an opportunity to take ONE child and teach him/her unconditionally, I HIGHLY recommend it.  Give freely of your gifts and see the talent of tomorrow blossom before your eyes.  All it takes is a little time and lots of love. The joys and benefits are OVERWHELMING!

Ray was mentioned in January edition of Dance Magazine in an interview with Broadway performer, Mara Davi.  Check out the article.

See Ray dance with Trent Kowalik (Tony Award winner for "Billy Elliot") and teach a brief step to "Twilight" and "New Moon" star, Nikki Reed, on MTV's "It's On with Alexa Chung".

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I am interviewed in the December 2009 issue of DanceSpirit Magazine in an article entitled "Show Tap" and mentioned by the new Billy Elliot, Alex Ko.

Congratulations to David, Trent and Kiril on winning the TONY for Best Actor in a Musical.

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Ray will be on Faculty in the Dance Program at Juilliard starting in September 2009.

Ray presented two pieces: “Elegant Burritos” (Three couples leave an upscale Mexican restaurant. Their evening is filled with romance, passion and food poisoning) and “Get Me to the Church on Time” (Will the chronically late bride EVER get to the church? Rain, sleet or snow…not to mention a really evil-flower girl…will the bride falter at the altar?)

Ray is featured in the Documentary "Finding Billy", the search for the Billys in Billy Elliot the Musical on Broadway.

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Ray has worked with the Creative Team of Billy Elliot: The Musical (Broadway 2008) as a Tap Dance Consultant to Choreographer, Peter Darling (and Associate Choreographer, Kate Dunn).

These are the three Tony nominated Billy's on Broadway. Trent Kowali, Kiril Kulish and David Alvarez.

David Alvarez