faculty spotlight

Steve Zee is a globe-trotting master tap dancer and tap teacher who has trained and performed with the Nicholas Brothers, Gregory Hines and countless other tap notables. He has taught and performed across the United States, Europe, South America and China and has done four oral histories of significant tap dancers that are housed at prestigious scholarly institutions, including the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He has been a member of the Jazz Tap Ensemble and Rhapsody In Taps. Check out his Ted talk “Tap Dancing Is The Story Of America.” 

In his subscription-based, online tap training program, Tap Academy Online, Steve currently teaches lessons in two languages to subscribers on six continents. Please visit www.tapacademyonline.com. 

Steve is also on faculty in the Dance Department at CSU, Long Beach. For more on Steve please visit www.stevezee.com.