[2] She made her Broadway debut in December 1944 in the original cast of Billy Rose's "Seven Lively Arts" with major ballet numbers choreographed by Anton Dolin.
[1] Rommett's aspirations soon turned to pedagogy and she was invited by Robert Joffrey to teach at his American Ballet Center in New York City in 1965.
[1] Her combined teaching experience and professional dance background inspired her to create her unique Floor-Barre method for training and rehabilitating dancers.
"[4] Rommett later said that "when you work in parallel on the floor, the connection of the ankle to knee to hip is so correct that the leg remains aligned when you turn out again"[5] and cautioned that "it must be done meticulously to be effective.
"[4] Rommett conceived and developed her technique by bringing dancers away from a traditional ballet barre and onto the floor to do their dance training exercises.
Rommett's application of ballet barre exercises performed using the floor as the source of support became known as the Floor-Barre, the first approach of its kind.
[6] Floor-Barre enables the practitioner to efficiently and effectively strengthen joints and muscles, correct alignment, release tension, and prevent and rehabilitate injuries.
Some notable students of Zena Rommett were Melissa Hayden, Tommy Tune, Patrick Swayze, Judith Jamison, Lar Lubovitch, John Curry, and Ulysses Dove.