Biography & Class Description
Marilyn D’Honau was a soloist with the following ballet companies: Eliot Feld American Company, New Jersey Ballet Company, Buck’s County Ballet, Staten Island Ballet and a guest artist with Rabousky & Kovach Concert Tour. On Broadway, she was a member of the original cast of Jerome Robbins’ West Side Story, Gypsy, starring Ethel Merman, Ron Field’s King of Hearts, Applause starring Lauren Bacall, Half a Sixpence, Baker Street and Bob Fosse’s Sweet Charity in Las Vegas. Ms. D’Honau also performed in Pal Joey, staring Bob Fosse, Can Can, Merry Widow, and Guys and Dolls at City Center. She has worked with such dance legends as George Balanchine, Michael Bennett, Todd Bolender, Danny Daniels, Peter Gennaro, Michael Kidd, Lee Theodore and Onna White. On television, she appeared weekly on the Ed Sullivan Show, as well as on The Bob Hope Special, Perry Como Special, Richard Rogers Special, The Tony Awards and the closing ceremony of the Statue of Liberty. With her sisters, she appeared in The D’Honau Sisters, an act which toured throughout the United States and Europe at major hotels and casinos and on national television. She was a principal dancer in the film The Night They Raided Minsky’s. Ms. D’Honau has been on faculty at the New Jersey School of Ballet under Artistic Director Edward Villella, and in NYC, has taught at Broadway Dance Center, Dance Concepts, Inc., Theatre Dance, NY Conservatory of Dance, Steps, Musical Theatre Works, and Elliot Feld’s New Ballet School. She has taught company classes for Feld Ballets/NY and Metropolitan Opera Ballet, master classes for Dance Alliance, and has been a guest teacher at Skidmore College, Bennet College, and Gulfport College. Currently, Ms. D’Honau is on faculty at Collaborative Arts Project 2 (affiliated with NYU) and New Dance Group.
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