Choreo Chats: Hear it From the Pros

Text based graphic Steps Beyond Presents Choreo Chats: Her it from the Pros, sponsored by Apple Bank

Join us for our CHOREO CHAT: HEAR IT FROM THE PROS, a conversation with professionals from the worlds of concert and commercial dance. Topics for the chats were selected by past Lab Choreographers and focus on building a choreographic career.

Saturday, Dec 5th 2026 @ 5:30pm
Steps on Broadway, Loft 3
2121 Broadway

Patricia Klausner, moderator, will speak with Heidi Latsky of Heidi Latsky Dance about her journey in building a diverse dance career and finding her choreographic voice.

How does personal experiences influence your work?

How do you take personal experiences and make them universal for a larger audience?

How does film influence your work?

In your new work, Days of Awe, how does your belief that disruption is where beauty and transformation reside act as an underlying construct?

 

Tickets $15 (in person only) 

Heidi Latsky Dance (HLD) and Heidi Latsky (Founder/Artistic Director/Dancer) create groundbreaking interdisciplinary work assembling casts of disabled, non-disabled, and unexpected dancers. With a manifesto dedicated to disrupting space, dismantling normalcy, and challenging contemporary views on beauty, HLD has built a critically acclaimed repertory and is recognized as a leader in inclusive dance.

HLD has performed at iconic institutions including Lincoln Center, Kennedy Center, Joyce Theater, Whitney Museum of American Art, Cooper Hewitt, National Portrait Gallery, and International Festival of Arts & Ideas at Yale University.

Latsky’s artistic practice spans performance, film, and digital media. She composed her first score for DAYS OF AWE. SOLILOQUY, her abstract dance film commissioned for ‘On Location at Montclair State University’, was the first of a film series. LIVING IN THE GREY, her documentary about five dancers living with neurological changes, is licensed in perpetuity by NYU Libraries. Her films have all been screened at museums, festivals, and universities. Her collaborative digital media works and volumetric videos have been produced in New York, Asia, and New Zealand.

Patricia R Klausner – Managing Director, Steps Beyond Foundation. Broadway & London: Producer – Little Dancer, Co-Producer – The Band’s Visit (Tony Award, Best Musical), Pippin (Tony Award, Best Revival), The Scottsboro Boys, Trip to Bountiful, Stick Fly; The Museum of Broadway, Co-Executive Producer of the film Wakefield (starring Bryan Cranston & Jennifer Garner).


HEIDI LATSKY DANCE 
presents
DAYS OF AWE

Find out about the world premiere of DAYS OF AWE, at Alice Tully Hall – Lincoln Center
Saturday, January 09, 2027 at 7:30 pm
Sunday, January 10, 2027 at 2:00 pm

Days of Awe is a mesmerizing, hauntingly beautiful multi-sensory experience tracing our collective journey: how we fracture, stitch ourselves back together, and find the fierce determination to move forward through chaos.