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Dormeshia
Choreographer/Performer/Artistic Director
is a two-time Bessie
Award (as performer and choreographer), Princess Grace Award Statue Award,
and Astaire Award recipient. Her Broadway credits include: After Midnight, Black
and Blue, and Bring In Da’Noise, Bring In Da’Funk including the international tour (dance captain, principal, lead). Her film credits include, TAP with Gregory Hines, Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (Assistant Choreographer/actress), and The Rise and Fall of Miss Thang, for which she received a nomination for Best Lead Actress. Some of Dormeshia’s choreography credits include Michael Jackson’s Rock Your World, and The Blues Project (co-choreographer). Dormeshia continues her artistic
journey with the first full-length work twice named to New York Times Best
of Dance, And Still You Must Swing: a celebration of Tap dance, Jazz music,
the connection between the two, and their African roots.
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Jason Samuels Smith
Choreographer, Performer, Humanitarian
received an
Emmy, Dance Magazine Award, American Choreography Award and Gregory
Hines Humanitarian Award among others. Choreography and film credits include
Black Nativity (associate tap choreographer/security guard #1); Hit Series
Psych; Secret Talents of the Stars (MYA); So You Think You Can Dance; Dancing
with The Stars; UPAJ:Improvise; Dean Hargrove’s Tap Heat, Outkast’s Idlewild; Debbie Allen’s Cool Women. Stage Credits include Soul Possessed (leading role); Broadway’s Bring in Da’Noise, Bring in Da’Funk (principal/lead roles); Imagine Tap! (leading role). He also designed and developed a professional tap shoe sold exclusively by BLOCH and founded the tap program at Debbie Allen Dance Academy. Using his art for social justice, he supports organizations including Groove With Me, AHF, Tied To Greatness, amfAR, Actors Fund, AHF, DRA/Broadway Cares, and Witness to name a few. Smith engages with communities around the world as an ambassador for the legacy of the art form of tap.
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Derick K. Grant
Choreographer, Director, Performer
is a native of Boston, where
he trained with his aund Andrea Herbert Major at The Roxbury Center for
Performing Arts. At age eight, that training led to mentorship by tap greats
Dianne Walker and Jimmy Slyde. At 18, he joined The Jazz Tap Ensemble, directed
by Lynn Dally, where he won the Princess Grace award for outstanding young
performer. He was an original member of Bring In Da’ Noise, Bring In Da’Funk. created and directed by George C. Wolfe and choreographed by Savion Glover, where he became dance captain and later the lead for the first national tour. Grant is also the creator, director, and choreographer of Imagine Tap, a show that featured the worlds best tap dancers, co-creator of The Blues Project, winner of the Bessie Award with Dormeshia, Michelle Dorrrance and Toshi Reagan and also choreographer and featured performer in And Still You Must Swing, featured at Jacob’s Pillow and the Joyce Theater. Grant is a highly sought after teacher who taught at Steps on Broadway for 18 years and continues to teach at festivals and workshops worldwide.
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