Tag: luigi

Great choice, IIDF! Dance Teacher presented Luigi with a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003. This Friday in NYC, the Italian International Dance Festival will present the incomparable Luigi with the organization’s first Lifetime Achievement Award. As part of the ceremony, dancers will perform two of the master teacher’s jazz solos: “New York, New York” and […]

Though she is known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie Harper got her start performing on Broadway in Rock, Rock, Rock and Li’l Abner in the 1950s. In her recently published memoir, I, Rhoda, the New York native mentions when she “began dance classes at the famed Luigi’s Jazz Centre, where […]