Tap Festival springs into spring!
The 7th annual Australian Tap Dance Festival takes centre stage in Melbourne from September 29 to October 6, with a world class line-up of talented tappers.
The Australian Tap Dance Festival is the only festival of its kind in Australasia and offers an action-packed week of tap and choreography, lessons and master classes, dance battles, seminars, a gala and special events for all ages and levels. The festival will run at Melbourne’s Ministry of Dance.
This year’s festival faculty features American headliner Melinda Sullivan, one of the most sought after tap soloists and choreographers in the world (The Late Late Show with James Corden, La La Land, SYTYCD USA).
Other esteemed guests include Winston Morrison (founder of Melbourne Tap Dance and Australian Tap Dance Festival Director), Tyler Knowlin (currently touring with Riverdance), Peta Anderson (currently touring with Eireborne), Bill Simpson (founder of Red Hot Rhythm and choreographer Strictly Gershwin), Brianna Taylor (one of the first female Australian tap dancers to perform on Broadway in Untapped USA and currently touring with Nick Young’s tap company in LA), Shane Preston (Tap Dogs), Luke Alleva (London West End performances, The Dancin’ Man), Jack Egan (The Forge Tap Project), Eden Read (Opera Australia, The Space Dance & Arts Centre), Leanne Driel (WA Tap Orchestra), Jessie Cram (Rhythm Tap Melbourne) and Emma Wickham (creator of Footnotes tap troupe).
Each carefully selected faculty member will also be offering special five-day residencies teaching full performance routines from October 2- 6 .
Events include Never Tapped Before, a free beginners class open to the public, History of Tap Lecture, Talking Tap Faculty Q&A, Cutting Competition Dance Battle, the inaugural Tap Trivia Night and, the penultimate event, the Australian Tap Dance Festival Gala, showcasing the superb skills of the highest calibre Australian and international tap dancers.
For more information go here.
DATES: 29 September – 6 October 2018
VENUE: Jason Coleman’s Ministry of Dance, 64 Sutton St, North Melbourne, Vic
Pictured above is Brianna Taylor.