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American Tap Dance Foundation

The American Tap Dance Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose primary goal is the presentation and teaching of tap dance. Its original stated purpose was to provide an "international home for tap dance, perpetuate tap as a contemporary art form, preserve it through performance and an archival library, provide educational programming, and establish a formal school for tap dance."[1]

Formation

1986

Not for profit, 501(c) 3 - Dance Organization

154 Christopher Street
Suite 2B
New York, NY, 10014

  • New York, NY, USA

Tony Waag

Founded by Brenda Bufalino, Charles "Honi" Coles and Tony Waag

2001 -

Gregory Hines

2002 - and Buster Brown

Jimmy Slyde

2003 -

Brenda Bufalino

2004 - , LaVaughn Robinson and Ernest Brown

Dianne Walker

2005 - Sarah Petronio

2006 - Lynn Dally

2007 - Deborah Mitchell

2008 - and Tina Pratt

Derick K. Grant

2009 - and Mercedes Ellington

Randy Skinner

2010 - Acia Gray and

Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards

2011 -

Max Pollak

2012 -

Jason Samuels Smith

2013 - Dean Diggins and Barbara Duffy

2014 -

Michelle Dorrance

2015 - Heather Cornell and Karen Callaway Williams

2016 - Ted Levy and Roxanne Butterfly

2017 - and Sam Weber

Ayodele Casel

2018 - Jared Grimes and Katherine Kramer

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

American Tap Dance Foundation records, 1935-2019