Philadelphia’s premiere, award-winning company that advances tap dance and jazz music through current choreography and progressive performances. 2023 Best Music Performance Winner, Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

The stories of what came before us live through us and create our future in jazz. We advance the scope of American tap dance and jazz music traditions through current choreography, modern compositions, progressive performances and accessible environments and contexts for the work.

The PJTE has since been commissioned by Jazz Bridge (Neighborhood Concert), The Philadelphia Jazz Project (7X7 Series, Whitman at 200, POOL), Creative Philadelphia (Music at the Market, Culture in the Courtyard, Creative Avenues, Neighborhood Arts), Dixon Place (30-30-30, Eight in Show), The Barnes Foundation (Free First Sunday), The Outlet Dance Project, the Allentown Art Museum (Third Thursday), Symphony Space (Stam-Pede/APAP), ArtYard and the Fairmount Waterworks. The PJTE has been featured on the nationally-syndicated arts program, Articulate. They have received organizational and project grant funding from New Music USA (2022-2023), the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (2016-2024), the Connelly Foundation (2023-2024), Dolfinger-McMahon (2023), and the PA Council on the Arts (2016-2019), Youth Enrichment Grant/PCF (2020).

The origins of the PJTE in 2008 were from scratch, community and grassroots. Producing countless community jams, workshops, residencies, commissions and low-stakes performance series, starting in 2008, helped build the artistic scene, community, audience and donor base. The community production work and efforts tapered off slowly, starting in 2015, until that program arm of the company was discontinued in 2020.