Bill Waldinger

Kennedy Cole

In addition to teaching at the Joffrey Ballet School, Bill Waldinger is a regular faculty member at, Ballet Academy East, New York Film Academy and the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. He has also taught at The Kanyok Arts Initiative, Broadway Dance Center, Marymount Manhattan College, Hunter College, Molloy College’s CAP21 Musical Theater Program, The Manhattan Ballet School (Director of Jazz), the contemporary company Cora Dance (Director of Ballet), and Hamilton Dance (Director of Ballet). Bill frequently travels the world As a Master Teacher, teaching both classical Ballet and Jazz. Most recently he taught for the Irish National Ballet and the Phoenix Performing Arts College, both in Dublin, Ireland. In addition, he has developed absolute beginner “Dance Classes For Singers” at The Singers’ Forum. Certified by Luigi to teach the Luigi Jazz Technique, Bill has been interviewed and taught on camera for the feature film Uprooted, The Journey of Jazz which chronicles the history of Jazz Dance. He has taught Luigi Jazz workshops for the New Rising Sun Dance Project at DANY Studios/Joyce SoHo and has coordinated workshops bringing together the techniques of Luigi and Matt Mattox with classic musical theater choreography. As a performer, Bill has appeared in musical theater, concert dance, commercials, music videos, television and industrials. He was a company member of The David Storey Dance Works and the Labyrinth Dance Theater. He has danced in commercials for Time-Life, music videos for the group Fila-Antoine, was a featured dancer on the television show Soul Alive and appeared in videos for the Theater Dance Workshop.