Tap In to NYC
Full Events Calendar
TDC Youth Open House
FREE class for kids to try tap dance! Whether your child has tapped before or not, they can borrow tap shoes from us during the class for FREE as well! You just have to show up!
Tap Jam with Christina Carminucci
Free tap jam hosted by Christina Carminucci!
A chance for tap dancers to gather monthly and SHED! This jam session has a focus on jazz music and is open to dancers and musicians of all levels.
TDC Youth Open House
FREE class for kids to try tap dance! Whether your child has tapped before or not, they can borrow tap shoes from us during the class for FREE as well! You just have to show up!
Tap City
Tony Waag’s Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival brings together a rich diversity of contemporary Tap dance with a combination of emerging talent as well as premiere choreographers.
Featuring Terry Brock, Nathan Bugh, Karen Callaway Williams, Michelle Dorrance, Barbara Duffy, DeWitt Fleming Jr., Felipe Galganni, Ryan Johnson, Lisa La Touche, Anthony Morigerato, Max Pollak, Demi Remick, Jason Samuels Smith, Soles of Duende, Caleb Teicher
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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!
TDC Tap Camp Teen Intermediate
For young dancers age 12-16 with intermediate level tap experience.
Audition placement video required, email shebach@tapdancecentral for details.
Dancers will build tap technique and work on creating choreography to present at the end of the session. Dancers will explore tap icons in the field today, and discuss how the styles of these dancers contribute to moving the art form forward. Additional Master Classes and Field trip mid week.
TDC Youth Open House
FREE class for kids to try tap dance! Whether your child has tapped before or not, they can borrow tap shoes from us during the class for FREE as well! You just have to show up!
Future Dance Festival at 92NY
Curated by a panel of female and female-identifying industry leaders, the Future Dance Festival connects emerging choreographers and filmmakers with today’s artistic decision-makers. It’s a festival rooted in purpose: to invest in dance’s future by championing its most promising creators — and offering audiences a front-row seat to the future of the form.
In-Person Program A – Fri, Apr 17, 7 PM (at 92NY and Livestreamed)
Laura Coe – Body as Archive
Solenn Etienne – Mother, may I sleep with my demons?
Rylan Joenk – PEARL DIVER
Savea Kagan – Glass Ceiling
Madeline Maxine Roman – Forbidden Fruit
Jessee Leigh Robinson – Rain
Miho Ryu – I’m still in the process of making peace with myself, though…
Choreographers Carnival
The hottest dance show by top professional choreographers and dancers in the music, video & film industry. ALWAYS imitated but NEVER duplicated!
Featuring Jessee Robinson!