Steps On Broadway
Karin Averti is an experienced ballet instructor and faculty member with a diverse background in professional ballet. Currently serving as a faculty member at Steps On Broadway since September 2012, Karin has also maintained an independent career as a ballet instructor since 2009. Karin's previous roles include Guest Ballet Rehearsal Director at Boston Ballet and Boston Ballet from January 2021 to May 2022, Ballet Mistress at ABT Studio Company from September 2019 to March 2020, and Ballet Faculty at ABT JKO School from September 2016 to September 2019. Karin's extensive performance career includes serving as Premiere Danseuse at Paris Opera Ballet from September 1979 to August 2005 and Principal Dancer at San Francisco Ballet from August 1987 to May 1989. Education was completed at Paris Opera Ballet School, graduating in 1979.
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.