Buddy Balou

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Buddy Balou' is a former soloist and principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre, where he worked with such great choreographers as Anthony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes DeMille, Eugene Loreing, Michael Smuin, and Glen Tetley. Under the direction of Lucia Chase, he also danced and partnered renowned Ballerinas such as Carla Fracci, Cynthia Gregory, Natalia Makarova, and Eleanor D'Antiono. On Broadway, he was a principal actor, dancer, and singer in Michael Bennets, "A Chorus Line" and Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Song and Dance" with Bernadette Peters.

Presently, he is the owner and director of his own dance school and company in Verona, New Jersey. The school is Theatre Arts Dance America (TADA), and the company is Theatre Dance America (TDA).To name a few, the following TADA students are now professionally involved in the Art of Dance:

Kelly Anne Sloan from Bayonne, NJ went to “Cincinnati Ballet”. She joined the Los Angeles Ballet and is now involved in choreography.
Elena Zahlmann, from Point Pleasant, NJ dances with “The New York Theatre Ballet”
Adrienne Benz from Vernon, NJ is presently a principal dancer with “Ballet Met", Columbus Ohio
Navarra Novy-Williams from Montclair, NJ a graduate of Juilliard in New York, is presently with “Les Grands Ballets Canadiens” in Montreal, Canada
Emily Tice from Stockholm, NJ is working with “Cincinnati Ballet”
Lydia Rakov from Montclair, NJ is working with the “Rochester City Ballet”
Tina Mayers from Franklin Lakes, NJ spent one year with The "National Ballet of Washington" and is currently enrolled at Stanford University
Alex Dutko from Milford, PA danced with "Miami City Ballet" Alex is now with ARB in Princeton NJ
Kit Nemeth is now an apprentice dancer working with New Jersey Ballet
Anthony Henley from Montclair NJ started dance studies at age 16 and is now working with Carnival Cruise Line
Rebecca Hartke is now starting her college career at NYU Tisch School of the Arts

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