faculty spotlight

  This incomparable California-based tap dancer has trained and performed with the Nicholas Brothers, Gregory Hines, and countless other tap notables. He has taught and performed across the Us, Brazil, China, and presented four oral histories of significant tap dancers that are housed at prestigious scholarly institutions including the Jerome Robbin's Dance Division of the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He's been a member of Jazz Tap Ensemble and Rhapsody in Taps, and can be seen on YouTube giving an informative Ted Talk entitled, Tap Dancing is the Story of America. In his subscription-based online tap dance studio, www.tapacademyonline.com, Steve teaches all levels of tap dance in two languages. Steve is on faculty at CSU Long Beach and Loyola Marymount University.