Currently on Faculty at Steps on Broadway in NYC, Todd Shanks has been featured in Dance, Dance Spirit, Dance Teacher and Dancer Magazines.  He recently choreographed a commercial for the new BIC "Soleil" Razors and the opening number for “Stars, Stripes and Skates 2009” staring 3-time National ice skating champion Johnny Weir. His choreography has also been featured on “The View”, ABC Nightly News, The MSG Network, NY1, CW 11, and at NYC’s Carnival, Steps on Broadway’s Faculty in Performance, the 2007 Yankee FanFest and “The Game is in Us” (a Nike spec commercial). 

Todd has performed in every aspect of dance from stage to screen working with pop star Sean Kingston, as a principal with Jette Performance Company, dancing in commercials for Wrigley’s Gum and being a featured dancer on the hit children’s TV show “The Electric Company”.  His list of credits also includes industrials for Kimberly Clark, Volvo, Ford Motors, Race for the Cure, Paramount Pictures, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Pilsen Beer, the United Way, UFO Jeans, 1010 WINS, Hope and Heroes, and the Lyme Disease Foundation as well as concert work with Synthesis Dance Project, The Westchester Philharmonic, SDCF Dance Break, the 2006 Miss Florida Pageant, and Off Broadway Workshops of Halftime and On the Edge. 

Todd has taught for the University of Florida, the Ailey Extension, Ballet Hispanico, Dance Masters of America, Dance New Amsterdam, Florida Dance Masters and many private dance studios throughout the United States.  He currently teaches at Steps on Broadway, The Dalton School, and on tour with Manhattan Dance Project.