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People
 Michelle DorranceMichelle Dorrance is one of the most sought after tap dancers of her generation. Michelle teaches, choreographs and performs throughout the US and abroad and is on faculty at Broadway Dance Center. She is proud to celebrate her one-year anniversary performing in the Off-Broadway production STOMP Michelle has since established herself as an accomplished solo artist, teaching master classes and performing throughout the world. These events include the North Carolina Rhythm Tap Festival, Rhythm Kaneko's "Groovin' High" in Tokyo, the International FeetBeat Festival in Helsinki, the New York City Tap Festival, Tap Encontro in Rio de Janeiro, both the Düsseldorf and the Heidelberg Stepptanz Festivals and the Stuttgart Tap Festival in Germany, Hoofin’ Ground, the Israel Tap Festival, the LA Tap Festival, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, the Beantown Tap Festival, Tapology Tap Festival, the Vancouver Tap Festival and workshops from Montana to Moscow. Michelle has been teaching tap on faculty at Broadway Dance Center since 2002 and has also been a guest teacher at Steps on Broadway, Peridance Center, Duke University, New York University, East Carolina University, Ohio State University, Barnard College, Elon College as well as numerous privately owned studios and national conventions. She owes her passion for teaching to the great and constant teachers in her life, her mother, M’Liss Gary Dorrance, her father, Anson Dorrance, Gene Medler, Josh Hilberman and Dianne Walker. In 2007, Emmy Award-winning choreographer Jason Samuels Smith invited Michelle to be a member of the trio in Charlie’s Angels: A Tribute to Charlie Parker performed at the Duke on 42nd St. in New York. Michelle was also featured in the 2006 premiere and one-month run of Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap! at Chicago’s Harris Theater. Other recent projects include performances with Ayodele Casel's Diary of a Tap Dancer in Washington, D.C.’s Lisner Auditorium, legendary Mable Lee's Dancing Ladies and Dr. Harold Cromer's original Opus One. Most recently Michelle has toured with Lynn Daly’s Los Angeles-based Jazz Tap Ensemble, performing the NEA-funded American Tap Masterpieces: Hollywood Journey. |