Jacob's Pillow Dance

choreographer, director, and cast member in the hit off-Broadway show STOMP. Her roots in the American community were first established in Chicago where she worked extensively with renowned organizations M.A.D.D. Rhythms and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. Her talents then extended to New York City in 2008, where her performing credits include such shows as Blood on the Dance Floor, a tribute to Michael Jackson by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, A.C.G.I. and Charlie's Angels with Emmy Award-winning dancer/choreographer Jason Samuels Smith, and Sophisticated Ladies honoring the music of Duke Ellington. She also works with Max Pollak and his company Rumba Tap, Barbara Duffy and Co., and The Cab Calloway Foundation, Inc. La Touche has been featured in numerous dance festivals as a teacher and solo artist in such countries as Brazil, China, Germany, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada, and across the U.S. Currently she performs at Harlem's legendary Cotton Club and teaches at Steps on Broadway and the American Tap Dance Foundation in New York City. La Touche directs her own performing group Tap Phonics and works with the collaborative group The Tap Messengers of New York.