2023 Education

Nothing says musical theatre like a big tap number. Come brush up your cramp rolls and buffalos in our popular tap series for adults. Some beginning tap experience is strongly recommended, but all are welcome!

September 9 – 30 (4 weeks)
Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. – noon
Broadway Rose New Stage

Ages: 18+
Tuition: $20 per class or $60 for the full 4-class series
Instructor: Jeff George

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Available spaces:
9/16 – Currently full
9/23 – 2 spaces available
9/30 – Currently full

Jeff George trained with Ballet Arts of Minnesota and Broadway Dance Center in NYC. He performed on the East Coast Tour of Sesame Street Live and with the Royal Caribbean & Norwegian Cruise Line ships. Jeff has performed with many Portland companies, such as Bodyvox, Polaris, Dancing People, SubRosa, Broadway Rose, Artist Repertory Theater, Pixiedust, and Do Jump, where he got to join the company on Broadway. Jeff recently choreographed The Drowsy Chaperone at Oregon City High School, Othello with Portland Actors Conservatory, Urinetown with Stumptown Stages which earned a PAMTA nomination for outstanding choreography, Made To Dance In Burning Buildings with Shaking the Tree Theater, which earned a Drammy award for outstanding choreography, You My Love with Shaking the Tree Theater, and most recently All Together Now, a Netflix film.

Whether you have an upcoming audition or just want to dust off your dancing shoes, shuffle off to Broadway Rose for the fall series of our popular adult dance class! This all levels class gives veteran and new performers alike the chance to practice a variety of musical theatre dance styles. You pick your schedule: sign up for just one class, all of them, or any combination in between!

October 9 – November 13 (6 weeks)
Mondays, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Broadway Rose New Stage

Ages: 18+
Tuition: $20 per class or $100 for the full 6-class series
Instructors:
October 9: Liz O’Donnell
October 16: Jeff George
October 23 & 30: Kevin Paul Clark
November 6 & 13: Clara-Liis Hillier

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Available spaces:
10/9 – 7 spaces available
10/16 – 6 spaces available
10/23 – 6 spaces available
10/30 – 4 spaces available
11/6 – 6 spaces available
11/13 – 6 spaces available

Liz O’Donnell is a local performer and has been seen on stage at Sherwood Foundation for the Arts (Anything Goes), triangle productions! (The Nancy Boggs Story), Stumptown Stages (West Side Story, Mamma Mia!), and Broadway Rose (Thoroughly Modern Millie, West Side Story, Footloose). As the resident choreographer for the Newberg High School Theater Department, Liz has choreographed 6 main stage musicals (Honk!, Oliver, The Addams Family, Matilda, Mamma Mia!, SpongeBob SquarePants: The Broadway Musical) in addition to the musical theater class production of Little Women. She is currently a member of The Skylark Tappers and works as a librarian for Washington County.

 

Jeff George trained with Ballet Arts of Minnesota and Broadway Dance Center in NYC. He performed on the East Coast Tour of Sesame Street Live and with the Royal Caribbean & Norwegian Cruise Line ships. Jeff has performed with many Portland companies, such as Bodyvox, Polaris, Dancing People, SubRosa, Broadway Rose, Artist Repertory Theater, Pixiedust, and Do Jump, where he got to join the company on Broadway. Jeff recently choreographed The Drowsy Chaperone at Oregon City High School, Othello with Portland Actors Conservatory, Urinetown with Stumptown Stages which earned a PAMTA nomination for outstanding choreography, Made To Dance In Burning Buildings with Shaking the Tree Theater, which earned a Drammy award for outstanding choreography, You My Love with Shaking the Tree Theater, and most recently All Together Now, a Netflix film.

 

Born and raised in Portland, Kevin Paul Clark has performed across the country and world! National/ International Tours: Disney’s Beauty and the Beast and Legally Blonde Local directorial and choreographic credits include productions with Bridgetown Conservatory of Musical Theatre (where he also serves as an instructor), Live on Stage, Lakewood Theatre, Pixie Dust Productions, and the Jefferson Dancers. Local performing credits include productions at Portland Center Stage, Lakewood Theatre, Pixie Dust Productions, Triangle Productions, and Clackamas Rep. Kevin is a company member alum of Nevada Ballet Theatre. When not teaching, you can find Kevin cuddling his goats, cows, horses, and chickens at Clark Family Farms in La Center, WA.

Join us for musical theatre dance class at Broadway Rose New Stage! You pick your schedule: sign up for just one class, all of them, or any combination in between! Beginners welcome. Each week features new choreography.

September 12 – October 5 (4 weeks)
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Broadway Rose New Stage

Ages: 13 to 18
Tuition: $18 per class or $132 for the full 8-class series ($16.50/class)
Instructor: Clara-Liis Hillier

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Over the years, Clara-Liis Hillier has appeared in productions by Northwest Children’s Theater, Northwest Classical Theater Company, Corrib Theatre, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Shaking the Tree Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Bag&Baggage, Lakewood Theater Company (Drammy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Musical, Godspell), Willamette Shakespeare, and JAW: A Playwriting Festival. She also works as a choreographer, theater, and dance teacher, most recently choreographing The Stinky Cheese Man for Northwest Children’s Theater and Little Shop of Horrors for Tualatin High School. She also teaches 567BROADWAY! musical theater dance fitness classes and Pure Barre in Lake Oswego and Bend. 

Working with a director, this class gives students a chance to not only practice their vocal work but strengthen their skills as performers. Over the course of six weeks, students will rehearse and mount a showcase featuring group numbers of various sizes, duets, and solos. On the last day of class, students will perform for family and friends.

October 7 – November 11 (6 weeks)
Saturdays, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Broadway Rose New Stage

Ages: 13 to 18
Tuition: $250
Direction and Music Direction: Tara Velarde

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Tara Velarde is a singer, actor, and dancer in her hometown of Portland, Oregon. Theater credits include The Bells That Still Can Ring (Portland Center Stage), A Very Merry PDX-mas, West Side Story, and Once (Broadway Rose), The Music Man (Third Rail Repertory Theatre), The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors (Oregon Children’s Theatre), and the title role in Antigone at the Border (Milagro Theater). Her album, Rise (2019), headlined US and European tours, where she opened for Michael Franti, and Gaelynn Lea (NPR Tiny Desk Contest winner). With a B.A. in Music Education from Pacific University (Outstanding Vocalist, 2013), she teaches music (Pacific Youth Choir, Ethos, C.S. Lewis Academy), and sings with the Oregon Symphony, White Bird, and Resonance Ensemble. Velarde has won awards in dance performance and competition.