Steve Zee is a globe-trotting master tap dancer, teacher and musician
who has trained and performed with the Nicholas Brothers, Gregory
Hines and countless other tap notables. He has performed and taught
across the United States, Europe, Brazil and China and was recently an
artist in residence in the south of France in addition to receiving funding
to do tap history research in the dance archive of the Centre national de
la danse in Paris. Steve has done five oral histories of significant tap
dancers (Stan Kahn, Bob Scheerer, Fred Strickler, Sarah Petronio, Linda
Sohl-Ellison) 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 Steve’s fun and informative tap history
lecture “What a Frog Can Tell Us About Tap Dance History” and his
Ted talk “Tap Dancing Is The Story Of America” both on YouTube.
In his subscription-based, online tap training program, Tap Academy
Online, Steve currently teaches lessons in two languages to subscribers
in dozens of countries on six continents. For more on Tap Academy
Online and to enjoy a few free video lessons, please visit
Steve is on faculty in the Dance Department at California State
University, Long Beach. For more on Steve, please visit
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