Steps On Broadway
Emily Bufferd is an experienced producer and faculty member in the dance community, currently serving as a Producer for The Young Choreographer's Festival since September 2009, where emerging choreographers showcase their work. Bufferd has held faculty positions at Eglevsky Ballet, Steps On Broadway, Joffrey Ballet School, and Broadway Dance Center, teaching contemporary and jazz dance. In addition, as the Artistic Director of BEings dance, a concert company, Bufferd has presented work at various prestigious venues both domestically and internationally. Bufferd has also contributed as a judge for Open Call and co-produced events for Peridance’s APAP showcase. Education was completed at Baruch College.
Steps On Broadway
Steps on Broadway, founded in 1979, is more than just a dance studio. It is an internationally recognized community of artists, committed to the cultivation of individuality and talent, to the joy, the work, the focus, and the abandon of dance. Classes are offered seven days a week at all levels in ballet, jazz, modern, contemporary, tap, theater dance, hip hop, ethnic, and body conditioning. Steps is the true epicenter of New York’s professional dance community. It is home to many of the best and most world-renowned teachers, and a training ground for generations of aspiring and professional dancers. On any given day, one may take class alongside today’s performers and seasoned veterans from concert dance companies, such as New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theater, Paris Opera, Kirov and Royal Ballets, Boston Ballet, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Complexions, and Martha Graham, as well as the opera, Broadway, and the commercial dance world. Steps is a celebrated space. It’s a state-of-the-art facility with an old-world ambiance and a steady pulse of passion, energy, and inspiration. It is a cultural hub, an artistic resource, and a cosmopolitan treasure.