She remarked to Ostlere, "Astaire and Hermes Pan's way of incorporating props into their routines particularly impressed me."
While Stroman went on to study ballet at James Jamieson's Academy of the Dance, she continued to love jazz and tap. In high school she choreographed the halftime shows at football games. Stroman went on to major in theater at the University of Delaware while continuing to study dance at the Delaware Center for Tap and Jazz.
On Tour
Though from an early age Stroman was determined to become a choreographer, she knew she could not break into the business in New York City without first getting work as a dancer in order to learn the city and the business. After graduating from college, she first earned parts around the Wilmington area, and then toured with the original cast of Bob Fosse's Chicago in the late 1970s. Subsequently, Stroman landed small dancing roles in Broadway shows such as Whoopee, 1979, and began to work extensively in stock and regional theater.
In 1987 Stroman won her initial entrée into the New York dance world when director Scott Ellis hired her to choreograph an Off-Broadway revival of Flora, the Red Menace.
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