ANDREW PALERMO (Master Class Teacher) is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder (with
childhood best friend Taye Diggs) of dre.dance, an NYC based contemporary dance
company. Since its premiere performance in 2005, dre.dance has earned a
reputation for authentically poignant and powerful dancing with performances
and residencies in NYC and across the country.
He performed on Broadway in original companies of Wicked and Annie Get Your Gun
(revival), the closing company of How to
Succeed in Business…, as well as national and international tours of West Side Story. Andrew now maintains a schedule of directing
and choreographing including: Ace
(The Old Globe, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Repertory Theater of St.
Louis), Two Gentlemen of Verona
(University of Cincinnati/CCM), Hair
and The Wild Party (Wichita State
University), Bright Lights, Big City (Prince
Music Theater), Aida (Music Theater
Wichita), Man of La Mancha
(Sacramento Music Circus), and Kristin
Chenoweth at Carnegie Hall.
Andrew Palermo