Tap Into NYC
Full Events Calendar
Kids' Movie Night!
Movie night for kids ages 6-12! We’ll have a showing of Happy Feet, do crafts, play games, and have pizza!
NYC Tap Dance Sessions with Christina Carminucci
Free tap jam hosted by Christina Carminucci!
FREE Open House class for adults!
FREE class for adults to try tap! You can borrow our loaner shoes for FREE as well!
Sole Blue: Michela Marino Lerman
Hailed as the “hurricane of rhythm,” celebrated tap dance artist, musician, improviser, choreographer, and educator Michela Marino Lerman gives audiences Sole Blue, a captivating exploration of tap dance as a living extension of the blues. Featuring Love Movement, an ensemble of musicians and tap dancers, Sole Blue takes audiences on a journey from New York to New Orleans to Appalachia, across Africa and South America, and into the traditions of flamenco, Kathak, Celtic, and Southern Italian forms—revealing a shared language of percussive dance, song, ritual, healing, and storytelling. This new piece is a poetic meditation on how the soles of our feet carry memory, resilience, and the enduring pulse of human connection.
FREE Open House class for adults!
FREE class for adults to try tap! You can borrow our loaner shoes for FREE as well!
Max Pollak Group Presents: Eclectric
Coming downtown on a new road, plugging in the tap board and hitting the gas - with the fearless Juan Diego Villalobos, Samuel Torres, Jennifer Vincent, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Maria Clara Laet!
FREE Open House class for adults!
FREE class for adults to try tap! You can borrow our loaner shoes for FREE as well!
TDC: Faculty Choreography Spotlight 6:30pm Set
Tap Dance Central spotlights the artistry, individuality, and creativity of its faculty featuring choreography by Maria Clara Laet, Kaleena Miller, Johannah Rickman, Tamii Sakurai, Lisa LaTouche, Susan Hebach, Jessee Leigh Robinson and Lucas Santos. The program brings together a diverse range of voices and approaches to tap dance, and invite audiences into their creative process, highlighting the musicality, storytelling, and creativity at the heart of their work.
Joining them on stage are TDC faculty Emma Butensky and guests Michael J. Love, Isabella Serricella, along with the TDC Ensemble Dancers Ellis Greenberg, Poppy Lee Slovin, Jacob Schwartzfeld, and Sebastian Sinclair.
TDC: Faculty Choreography Spotlight 4:30pm Set
Tap Dance Central spotlights the artistry, individuality, and creativity of its faculty featuring choreography by Maria Clara Laet, Kaleena Miller, Johannah Rickman, Tamii Sakurai, Lisa LaTouche, Susan Hebach, Jessee Leigh Robinson and Lucas Santos. The program brings together a diverse range of voices and approaches to tap dance, and invite audiences into their creative process, highlighting the musicality, storytelling, and creativity at the heart of their work.
Joining them on stage are TDC faculty Emma Butensky and guests Michael J. Love, Isabella Serricella, along with the TDC Ensemble Dancers Ellis Greenberg, Poppy Lee Slovin, Jacob Schwartzfeld, and Sebastian Sinclair.
SILO Dance Fest
Join us for an unforgettable evening of dance as ten remarkable artists share their unique voices on stage. This performance runs approximately 90 minutes, including a 10-minute intermission.
SILO provides space where new work can take shape, be supported, and be seen.
Performances take place:
Friday, October 9 — 7:00 PM
Saturday, October 10 — 2:00 PM
Saturday, October 10 — 7:00 PM
Tommy Dances Flanagan
A solo tap dance work to the music of Tommy Flanagan.
September 18th & 20th, 2026
7pm
153-10 Jamaica Ave
Making Moves Dance Festival
Tickets at JCAL.org
Boys' Club Tap Dance Collective @ Arts On Site
Join Boys’ Club Tap Dance Collective in a celebration of women in tap dance and jazz music!
@ Arts on Site Studio 3R, 12 St. Marks Pl, NYC
Sept 20th @ 6:30pm & 8:30pm
Ayodele Casel - Collection: Inherited
Join award-winning tap artist and choreographer Ayodele Casel and her collaborators - including a USA Solo Beatbox Champion, a sand dancer, a body percussionist, and others - for a special performance with live music that explores the body as an instrument, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Musical Bodies.
Featuring: Ayodele Casel, Alex Sanchez, Quynn Johnson, Ryan Johnson, Naomi Funaki, Tony McPherson, Hank Smith, Crystal Monee Hall.
Tap-A-Long
In memory of Cobi Narita
Hosted By: Toes Tiranoff
Featuring Tap Dancers: Megan Huangs, Yuka kameda, Nyles Lattimore, Michela Marino Lerman, Beverly Ann Moore, Adriana Ogle, Toru Sakuragi
Pianist & Musical Director: Yuka Aikawa
Free Admission
Bring tap shoes to jam!
*Bryant Park, Upper Terrace, directly behind New York Public Library*
Tap City Awards
This special event will honor recipients of the American Tap Dance Foundation’s HOOFER, TAP PRESERVATION and INTERNATIONAL TAP DANCE HALL OF FAME Awards. The evening will include surprise guests, archival film clips, and live performances, celebrating the rich legacy and vibrant future of tap dance.
2026 Awardees:
Tap Dance Hall of Fame
Buddy Bradley, LaVaughn Robinson & NYC Tapworks
Hoofer
Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley & Mark Yonally
Preservation
Thelma Goldberg
Battery Dance Festival
The Battery Dance Festival is New York City’s longest-running free public dance festival. Each year, the Festival draws a combined audience of over 12,000 in-person and over 35,000 virtual viewers. This year we will be kicking off the festival with four outdoor workshops on Monday, August 10, starting at 4:00pm at Robert F. Wagner, Jr. Park.
Soles of Duende and our very own Jessee Leigh Robinson will both be performing on August 11th!
TDC Tap Camp for Kids Session 3
Split Level Camp:
For young dancers age 6-10 with no/little prior experience
For dancers 8-12 with 2-3 years prior experience.
Dancers explore tap dance, learn basic tap technique, and put together a performance for a casual show at the end of the week. Arts and crafts every day, exploration of tap history and culture, and several master classes in unique percussive styles. Field trip mid-week. Tap shoes provided if needed!
Max Pollak Group at Birdland
This special Birdland performance highlights Pollak’s original compositions alongside inventive rhythmic explorations rooted in jazz and Afro-Caribbean traditions, offering audiences a compelling evening that reimagines rhythm as both sound and movement.
Joining Pollak for this special engagement are:
Max Pollak, vocals, tap, percussion
Nicki Denner, piano
Jennifer Vincent, bass
Felipe Fournier, vibes
Samuel Torres, percussion
Camila Aldet, vocals, tap
Claudia Rahardjanoto, vocals, tap
Nicholas Young, tap, percussion
TDC Tap Camp for Kids Session 2
Split Level Camp:
For young dancers age 8-12 with limited prior experience.
For young dancers age 8-12 with- 3+ years of experience.
Dancers build and expand tap technique, explore tap dance history and put together a performance for a casual show at the end of the week. Arts and crafts every day, exploration of tap history and culture, and several master classes in unique percussive styles. Field trip mid-week. Tap shoes provided!
Melissa Almaguer presents ¡alebrijes!
¡alebrijes! is a multimedia performance by Melissa Almaguer inspired by the Mexican folk art sculptures depicting fantastical, often hybrid creatures first imagined in the 1930s by artist Pedro Linares. Combining storytelling, animation, live music, field recordings and electronics, the performance explores the multiplicity of the self and challenges notions of identity as singular, fixed, and static. Through the journeys the alebrijes take us on, we are invited to consider identity as boundless and ever-transforming, and to reunite with those parts of ourselves we often leave unnoticed or avoid.
SOUNDspace at Dorance Dance
In honor of Dorrance Dance’s 15th Anniversary season, SOUNDspace will return to St. Mark’s Church for the first time since its premiere!
“SOUNDspace (2013) was created as an exploration of - and percussive love letter to - the sonic sanctum that is the theater/sanctuary of St. Mark’s Church.” -Michelle Dorrance
TDC Tap Camp for Kids Session 1
For young dancers age 8-12 with prior tap experience (3-5 years) Dancers explore tap dance on a deeper level, build tap technique, and put together a performance for a presentation at the end of the week. Arts and crafts every day, exploration of tap history and culture, and several master classes in unique percussive styles. Field trip mid-week.
The Mercy Velvet Project Day 2
Presented by kamrDANCE, Yale Schwarzman Center, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas
Tickets available soon!
The 1999 album, Live in Vain by Mercy Velvet, exists on zero streaming platforms, and few people have heard it…until now. The Mercy Velvet Project (premiere June 2026) is an embodied re-creation of the album. The work explores what makes us human, our collective need for community to survive—with musicians and dancers moving as one. Through nine songs in their original order, a queer and femme cast explore different barriers to experiencing love. Learning that by giving and receiving the gift of mercy, we are able to find the bridge to survival, wholeness, and hope. Over twenty-five years after the albums’ release, kamrDANCE and their collaborators expand upon its legacy through their personal identities and today’s political realities. The show tells the story of the album through tap dance as percussion, contemporary dance, original text, and instrumentation via bass, guitar, vocals, and electronics—highlighting our vulnerabilities, learning together how to find the antidote that is mercy, and in turn lead meaningful lives.
Live in Vain by Mercy Velvet is the music that Choreographer Alexis Robbins grew up with, the percussive rhythms and lyrics that inspired living room dances. Her father, Mark Robbins, was the drummer and co-composer for Mercy Velvet, alongside lyricist and vocalist Deb Lili, and guitarist Lou Lili. Her fathers’ love and direction has deeply influenced the music Alexis listens to and the music she creates as a tap dancer. Now, Alexis, Musical Director Christie Echols, and their collaborators bring Live in Vain to audiences for the first time.
The Mercy Velvet Project Day 1
Presented by kamrDANCE, Yale Schwarzman Center, and the International Festival of Arts and Ideas
Tickets available soon!
The 1999 album, Live in Vain by Mercy Velvet, exists on zero streaming platforms, and few people have heard it…until now. The Mercy Velvet Project (premiere June 2026) is an embodied re-creation of the album. The work explores what makes us human, our collective need for community to survive—with musicians and dancers moving as one. Through nine songs in their original order, a queer and femme cast explore different barriers to experiencing love. Learning that by giving and receiving the gift of mercy, we are able to find the bridge to survival, wholeness, and hope. Over twenty-five years after the albums’ release, kamrDANCE and their collaborators expand upon its legacy through their personal identities and today’s political realities. The show tells the story of the album through tap dance as percussion, contemporary dance, original text, and instrumentation via bass, guitar, vocals, and electronics—highlighting our vulnerabilities, learning together how to find the antidote that is mercy, and in turn lead meaningful lives.
Live in Vain by Mercy Velvet is the music that Choreographer Alexis Robbins grew up with, the percussive rhythms and lyrics that inspired living room dances. Her father, Mark Robbins, was the drummer and co-composer for Mercy Velvet, alongside lyricist and vocalist Deb Lili, and guitarist Lou Lili. Her fathers’ love and direction has deeply influenced the music Alexis listens to and the music she creates as a tap dancer. Now, Alexis, Musical Director Christie Echols, and their collaborators bring Live in Vain to audiences for the first time.
Josh Hilberman's Not Dead Yet
In this intimate, funny, and deeply human one-man performance, tap dancer Joshua Hilberman
celebrates his decades of experience as a bearer of nearly-lost oral traditions. Featuring repertory
both historic and personal, along with stories about his mentors in tap dance and jazz, Hilberman muses on his role as a vital link between generations.
Belle Noire
Step back in time with Belle Noire, a dazzling musical tribute to the iconic Black songstresses from the dawn of early jazz to the height of the swing era. Created by New Orleans-born vocalist Kay Lewis and her mother Leila Lewis, this immersive theatrical concert celebrates the sound, style, and soul of legends like Lena Horne, Billie Holiday, Eartha Kitt, and Dorothy Dandridge- not through imitation but through bold, evocative reinterpretation. Blending vintage visuals, cinematic projections, elegant costuming, tap dance, and live jazz, Belle Noire offers a cabaret-meets-theater experience that is at once nostalgic and strikingly contemporary.
Tap Dance Central In Concert
Our big summer recital!
Click the link to purchase tickets!
Traveling Tap Museum is back!
Traveling Tap Museum returns to the West Village on June 5th at 1:30! Performers include Herbin “Tamango” VanCayseele, Karen Callaway Williams, Connor Kelly, and Jane Goldberg. Located at 310 Greenwich St. 2nd Floor.
LOUNDOVING presents Dance/Music
An evening of new, reimagined and improvised music and dance works.
Featuring:
Lisa La Touche (tap dance)
Michael J.Love (tap dance)
Kalneena Miller (tap dance)
Aby Wolf (vocals and electronics)
Laura Wolf (cello and vocals)
Doors at 6:30pm / Show at 7pm
**limited seating available; arrive early if you wish to sit!
Tap Along in Bryant Park with Toes Tiranoff
Free tap jam in Bryant Park hosted by Toes Tiranoff with special guests Megan Haungs, Yuka Kameda, Nyles Lattimore, Michela Marino Lerman, Beverley Ann Moore, Toru Sakuragi, and pianist Yuka Aikawa.
Tap Dance Day at TDC!
Join us for a full day of Tap Dance Day festivities!
On May 25th we’ll be hosting a number of specialized tap classes, performances, and open houses for both children and adults throughout the day!
National Tap Dance Day Celebration @ The Jazz Gallery
Tap Performances by Star Dixon, Nicholas Van Young, Christina Carminucci, Caleb Lawrence Jackson, Audrey Chapin, Toru Sakuragi, Caroline Brodie
Ft. Miki Yamanaka (piano), Simon Moullier (vibraphone) Gervis Myles (bass) and Buz Donald (drums)
This special performance celebrates National Tap Dance Day, honoring the birthday of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson on May 25. Robinson was one of the most influential figures in the history of tap dance, known for bringing the art form to a broader stage and elevating it with elegance, musicality, and innovation. Tap Dance Day was officially recognized in the United States in 1989, thanks in large part to the efforts of Gregory Hines, acknowledging tap as a vital part of American cultural heritage.
Our show celebrates that legacy with tap dancers from New York City and Chicago—two cities deeply rooted in the evolution of tap. Joined by a live jazz band, the performance highlights the deep history and shared improvisational spirit of tap and jazz.
General Seating $33.50 ($22.50 for members; $17 for student members)
Cabaret Seating $45 ($25 for members)
Livestream $22.50 ($7.50 for members)
*Pricing listed includes online purchasing fees. Fees not applicable for in-person sales.
Maureen Footer and Margo Jefferson Discuss Buddy Bradley
Author Maureen Footer is joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Margo Jefferson to talk about Footer’s new biography of groundbreaking jazz and tap choreographer Buddy Bradley, Feel the Floor: Restoring the Life and Legacy of Jazz Choreographer Buddy Bradley.
Book will be available for purchase!