Joey R. Smith is an independent choreographer and a ballet teacher at LaGuardia High School of the Arts in NYC. He most recently performed as a dancer at Magnolia Grill in Baton Rouge, LA with his mother and father and at least fifty cigarette-smoking, beer-swilling cowboys. Prior to that he was a dancer with the Eliot Feld Ballet, the Washington Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera. He loved dancing in musicals with New York City Opera and will be choreographing “Sweet Charity” for LaGuardia in the fall.