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Caroline Liadakis
& WABI theatre and dance


 

"What is obvious is her ear for dialogue."
-NY Theatre.com

"As Ginger Brooks she will bring a tear to your eye from laughing so hard."
 -the Times Herald
 
"Broadway Caliber Dance Skills."                                               
-Erin Hart
 
"Caroline Liadakis plays Moonface's girlfriend Erma, not only with Burlesque but with charm. Like Judy Holiday in Born Yesterday she manages the art of speaking in a high pitched voice and knows how to time a line for the fullest comedic effect"
-Monty Pitner

"Caroline Liadakis plays Georgie, Dave's (Tad Wilson) wife. The chemistry between these two performers in particular carries the show."

-Backstage

"As Georgie, Caroline Liadakis is perky and effervescent. She also gives her character a quietly, suffering nobility."

-North County News

"And there's an especially delightful number, "Buddie Beware" performed by Caroline Liadakis who promises to be another Bernadette Peters."

-Ellen Burke Rawls

"Caroline Liadakis (Val) is an impudent delight in "Dance Ten Looks Three."

-the Post Standard

WABI theatre and dance was founded in 2015 after Ms. Liadakis' move west to Denver from New York City. Caroline curated, created and directed the hottest and most professional Dance and Musical Theatre Program in Colorado. Training hundreds of students ages 11-18 and giving them all of the tools to succeed professionally or simply create a sustainable dance/movement practice.

Caroline brought in East Coast Professionals for workshops in Denver to add to the already high calibre training including educators Kevin Covert (Shenandoah Conservatory), Lori Leshner (Marymount College), Peter Gregus (Broadway Performer), and Amy Rogers (PACE). Caroline's faculty also included top notch pros in Colorado.

The Denver WABI students went on to flourish as local performers and at College Auditions. WABI Alumni represent at these colleges; Carnegie Mellon, Marymount Manhattan, NYU, PACE, Michigan, 
Doane, Lipscomb, Bellmont, PENN State, Texas State, Molloy/CAP21, Shenandoah Conservatory, Colorado Christian, Boston Conservatory, Syracuse, The Hartt School, James Madison, Montclair and Utah University as Musical Theatre BFA Majors as well as some holding Dance Minors. Caroline's students were unstoppable as they were strong singer/actors who through the WABI curriculum became strong   dancers. Their dance technique in Ballet, Modern, Jazz and Tap created a well rounded skill set, giving them an edge at college auditions

WABI changed the landscape of Dance and Musical Theatre training in Colorado. WABI had a ten year reign in Denver which included weekly classes, College Prep, Dance and Musical Theatre Intensives as well as two NYC Musical Theatre Weekend Workshops.

Caroline has been teaching for 20 plus years in studios and schools throughout the country including; Broadway Dance Center, STEPS on Broadway, Manhattan Movement and Arts Center, the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute, Marymount Manhattan College, Wagner College, the Denver School of the Arts, Castle Rock Dance Academy, North Carolina Dance Collective, and the Colorado Thespian Conference. She currently teaches at the South Park Recreation Center in beautiful Fairplay, CO.

Caroline is the 2019 recipient of the Bobby G Award for Outstanding Choreography, for her work on "Thoroughly Modern Millie" at Valor Christian Conservatory. 

Ms. Liadakis' classes are fun, upbeat, non-competitive and inspiring while also instilling discipline and a reverence for the Arts. She focuses on healthy alignment, proper technique, musicality, 
rhythm, style, individual self expression and being a positive mentor for her students.

As a performer, she has been cast on Broadway, performed in six National Tours, one European Tour and worked in many Regional Theatres (Papermill Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre, Harrah's Atlantic City) as well as off-Broadway (LaMama ETC, NYC Fringe Festival) and TV commercials. She is a proud memenber of AEA and SAG.

Favorite roles include; Columbia in the Rocky Horror Show, Val in A Chorus Line, Georgie in The Full Monty, Mickey in My One and Only, Erma in Anything Goes, Dinah in South Pacific, Alice in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Ginger Brooks in The 1940s Radio Hour and  performing in the dancing ensembles of productions of; West Side Story, Oklahoma, Some Like It Hot, On Your Toes and many more musicals and dance concerts.   

As a writer, her work has been produced at the NYC International Fringe Festival (Rollerskates and MaryJane) Manhattan Repertory Theatre (Vanilla Rococo) and Galapagos Art Space (The Connie Baker Show). 

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