CREATING

I advance the scope of American tap dance and jazz music traditions through my live improvisations, my fresh approaches to composition and arrangement in my concert work, and community tap projects that bring people of all ages together.

Click here to enjoy this Youtube playlist of my favorite live moments.
Click here to watch some of my favorite concert work that showcases performances from Fairmount Waterworks, ArtYard, Symphony Space, PhillyCAM and more.
I’ve greatly enjoyed the opportunity to meet countless Philly tap dancers at my studio spaces and the events that I produced over the last two decades. Click to see some of my group choreographies demonstrate pure Philly tap joy; it’s a privilege to have been a part of it all.
Jazz stories weave together tap dance, original music and written text to tell a narrative tale. The subject matter can range from musicians to periods of jazz history to abstract themes, told through jazz music. The stories can be factual, fictional, wildly imaginary, boldly futuristic or a mix of all these things.What I aim to do with my jazz stories is not make them straight biographies and instead enrich relevant themes with my own voice. This work of telling other people’s stories inevitably reveals facets of my own journey in dance and music. I start researching, and the stuff I find is just a portal into my own experiences; perhaps that is why I am drawn to them, or why they are drawn to me.
Tyner and Timmons (TNT)
Trouble the Water
Terry Pollard: A Jazz Epistolary
Beryl Booker
Click here to enjoy performances of my students at Smith Playground’s Kidchella, Girard Avenue Street Festival, Olney Youth Arts Festival and the Brewerytown Tap Dance Festival.