Sessions
Advanced
7:15 PM - 8:25 PM Fri
Adult Beg/Intermediate
8:30 AM - 9:40 AM Sat
Intermediate
9:45 AM - 10:55 AM Sat
Intermediate
2:45 PM - 3:55 PM Sat
Tap Concert
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sun
Heidi Malnar is an Emmy and Big Easy Award winning dancer and choreographer from Chicago. She is the Artistic Director of Gulf Coast Theatre on Tap- New Orleans' premier jazz and rhythm tap company. She most recently choreographed "42nd Street," "13," “Spamalot,” and choreographed & starred in “Rapunzel,” directed by Ricky Graham. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Columbia College Chicago. Heidi is a former company member, of the Chicago-based Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, directed by Billy Siegenfeld, where she received an Emmy Award for “Outstanding Achievement for Individual Excellence on Camera: Performer” for her work in the multiple Emmy Award winning documentary Jump Rhythm Jazz Project: Getting There, produced by HMS Media and aired on PBS. She also performed with the edgy, experimental Chicago Tap Theatre, directed by Mark Yonally. Before moving to New Orleans, Heidi enjoyed her faculty position at Carthage College where her choreography for “Thoroughly Modern Millie,” received a Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Certificate of Merit for her work. Since coming to New Orleans only two years ago, she has become fully invested in dance education and choreography at Tulane University, Encore Studio of Dance, Tumbling, Music & Theatre, New Orleans Ballet Association, St. Martin’s Episcopal School, and Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts. Other recent choreographic projects include: “Legally Blonde the Musical,” “The Class of 70-Something,” “Freckleface Strawberry,” “Thoroughly Modern Millie, Jr.,” “Pippin,” “Grease, School Edition,” "Spamalot," and "42nd Street."