Genres

• Ballet
• ​Modern
• Contemporary
• Jazz
• Hip Hop / Street Style
• Tap
• Theater

Overview

Todd Shanks is an energetic, passionate educator and choreographer, whose extensive performance resume includes TV appearances, commercials, music videos, cruise ships and industrial shows, stage productions and concert work. Featured in Dance, Dance Spirit and Dance Teacher magazines, Todd spent over a decade on the faculty at Steps on Broadway in NYC and furthermore was guest faculty at The Ailey School, Ballet Hispanico, Dance New Amsterdam, The Dalton School and Bridge for Dance, to name a few.

​In addition to being a fulltime faculty member of the School of Dance at Dean College, Todd teaches on tour with Manhattan Dance Project and Dance Educators of America and is a member of the Jazz Faculty at The Boston Ballet School. As the head of the Jazz and Tap programs at Dean, he travels to studios across the country to award Dean College dance scholarships to promising dancers.

Teaching Positions

• Dean College.
  
• Boston Ballet School.
  
•  Dance Educators of America.
  
•  Manhattan Dance Project.

Performance Credit

• The Electric Company.
  
• The View; Good Day NY.
  
• Kimberly Clark.
  
• Volvo.
  
• Ford Motors. 
  
• Race for the Cure. 
  
• Wrigley's. 
  
• Paramount Pictures.