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Paul Arslanian
Tap Program Music Director
Paul Arslanian is a professional pianist, composer, and dance accompanist. In 1979, Arslanian co-founded the Jazz Tap Ensemble and, as music director, worked with Honi Coles, Foster Johnson, Cookie Cook, Eddie Brown, Harold and Fayard Nicholas, and many other tap...
Tasha Lawson
Tap Faculty Member
Tasha Lawson is Artistic Director of Tri-Tone Productions, a dance company offering interdisciplinary solo and ensemble performance works in the mediums of Body Percussion, Tap, and Contemporary Dance. Lawson's body percussion technique, transcribing tap vocabulary into body rhythms, is taught...
Dianne Walker
Tap Program Director
A performer in the Tony Award-winning Black and Blue, Walker had the prestigious honor of being the only female in its famed Hoofers Line. Her film credits include the movie Tap and PBS Great Performances: Tap Dance in America. A...
Ray Hesselink
Tap Program Faculty
Ray Hesselink is a Director/Choreographer living and working in New York City. Ray has presented choreography at various festivals and venues around New York City, most recently at the New York Musical Theater Festival and Tap City. As a performer,...
Harold Cromer
Tap Program Guest Artist
Harold Cromer began his career as a tap dancer on roller skates at the Hudson Guild. As a teenager, Cromer landed a role in Cole Porter's Du Barry was a Lady with Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman, and Betty Grable. He...
Sarah Reich
Assistant to Harold Cromer
Sarah Reich has assisted tap legend Harold Cromer for the past five years at festivals such as Tap City, St. Louis Tap Festival, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, and Los Angeles Tap Festival. She has studied with Alfred Desio, Cyd Glover,...
