Ed Kresley

Ed Kresley began his Broadway career as one of Jerome Robbins' dancers in West Side Story. His second show, Bye, Bye Birdie, began an association with Gower Champion that led to assisting him on Hello, Dolly! Formerly, Edmond was the supervising archivist and associate director of The American DanceMachine. He re-created many Broadway dance classics for the repertoire and occasionally appeared with the company. His choreography is seen in several major MTV videos, the hit movie, Rappin', The Hot Shoe Show on BBC-TV, and DASH! in London's West End. He has directed musical theatre throughout the US, England, Italy, Japan and Israel. In France, he also conducted theatre dance seminars at the bridge festival in Beziers with Alan Jay Lerner, Betty Comden, Adolph Green, Phyllis Newman and Honi Coles. As a soloist, he was featured in the star studded, The Best of Broadway with Chita Rivera on PBS and performed the Morton Gould Tap Concerto with Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra at Finlandia Hall. Recently, critics across the country praised his choreography in Bye, Bye Birdie starring Tommy Tune.