Steps On Broadway
Temple Kemezis is an accomplished ballet teacher and production coordinator with extensive experience in the performing arts. Currently, Kemezis teaches open ballet classes at Steps On Broadway and serves as a production coordinator for both Steps Beyond Foundation and New York City Dance Alliance. As a co-founding producer of Arts ON AIR, Kemezis plays a pivotal role in promoting live performances for artists during the Covid pandemic through innovative outdoor and livestream events. Additionally, Kemezis co-founded the Higher Ground Festival to foster collaboration among Northern Manhattan artists, while maintaining a freelance career as a ballet dancer with Dances Patrelle. Previous experience includes senior events management for Toloache Restaurants and contributions to Pointe Magazine. Kemezis' educational background includes studies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Pittsburgh Ballet Theater.
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.