Tap Dancer Biographies: M-Z
- Mark Mendonca
- Margaret Morrison
- Leela Petronio
- Sarah Petronio
- Drika Overton
- Max Pollak
- Van "The Man" Porter
- Pamela Raff
- Idella Reed
- Robert Reed
- Earle "Maximillian" Scoggins
- Hank Smith
- Linda Sohl-Donnell
- Lloyd Storey
- Fred Strickler
- Swift Brothers
- Tobias Tak
- Bob Thomas
- Glenn Turnbull
- Tony Waag
- Dianne Walker
- Sam Weber
- Christy Wyant
- Karen Zebulon
MARK MENDONCA
MARK MENDONCA has toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe performing in such venues as Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center and the Bienalle de la Danse Festival in France, and has shared the stage with tap greats Jimmy Slyde, Gregory Hines, the Nicholas Brothers, as well as late tap legends Charles Honi' Coles, Eddie Brown, Steve Condos and Chuck Green. Mark is the co-director of the Los Angeles based dance company, Dance Electric.
MARGARET MORRISON
MARGARET MORRISON is an acclaimed rhythm tap soloist, choreographer, and producer. She has been featured in tap festivals in Brazil, Germany and across the United States, has performed her one woman show in New York and Florida, and tapped in a nationally broadcast commercial for Seagrams. Since 1986 she has been a member of the American Tap Dance Orchestra and she co-created Pulsation, a feminist performance ensemble. The New York Times called Margaret an "exciting virtuoso dancer". She is on the faculties of Barnard College, NYU, and Broadway Dance Center. In Summer 2001, she is teaching at the New York City Tap Festival and the Chicago Human Rhythm Project.
DRIKA OVERTON
Drika Overton is creator and artistic director of the Portsmouth Percussive Dance Festival and "Clara's Dream: a Jazz Nutcracker."
She began her career in San Francisco in 1980 where as a modern dancer she found tap... a discovery that would change her professional life. Secretly wanting to be a drummer since childhood, and always drawn to the rhythmic aspects of music, she found what she most wanted to do as a dancer. Drika began studying with tap greats Camden Richman, of the original Jazz Tap Ensemble, and Bill Robinson protege Eddie Brown. She co-founded a five woman tap and rhythm dance ensemble, Take Five, and performed throughout the San Francisco Bay area. She has since studied and performed with many of the legendary tap artists of our time, including Jimmy Slyde, Charles "Honi" Coles, and Brenda Bufalino, as well as Paul Draper protege Dean Diggins, and body musician Keith Terry.
Drika works throughout New England and the US as a teacher, performer and choreographer and has received numerous awards for her work including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the NH State Council on the Arts, and grants from Art Builds Community! funded by the Lila-Wallace Reader's Digest Fund. Listed on the Maine, New Hampshire and New England artist rosters, she has been featured at New England Artist Congress' in New Haven, CT and Newport, NH, the Rhythm Explosion Tap Festival in Bozeman, MT, Sculler's Jazz Club in Boston, MA, on NH Public Television, Portsmouth Jazz Festival, Maine Arts Festival, Bates Dance Festival, and Liz Lerman's Shipyard Project.
Drika co-founded the tap ensemble StopTime, the music and dance trio Suite:Feet, and currently co-directs and choreographs for the Youth Jazz Dance Project. Email: drika@jazzandtap.com Web: http://jazzandtap.com/
LEELA PETRONIO
Leela Petronio spent her childhood backstage and onstage with jazz tap artist Sarah Petronio. Leela studied with tap masters Jimmy Slyde, Steve Condos, Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins, and has performed in the Kansas City, Saint Louis, Portland, Tel Aviv, Chicago, Minneapolis and Atlanta Tap reunions. She has shared the stage with Jimmy Slyde, Chuck Green, Ted Levy, Gregory Hines, Savion Glover, Lon Chaney, Brenda Buffalino... She has danced in tributes to Steve Condos in NYC and appeared as a guest in "Jimmy Slyde and friends". She teaches rhythm tap in France, Germany, Senegal, the US and Israel. In 1997, she founded the Hip Tap Project to initiate exchanges between different forms of percussive dance. In 1999, she curated "Planète Tap" for the Suresnes Cités Danse festival in France with guests Jimmy Slyde, Mark Mendonca and Baakari Wilder. She is a featured dancer in the hip hop dance company Funk Attitude, performing in dance festivals throughout Europe (Festival of Urban Cultures of la Villette in Paris and Avignon).
SARA PETRONIO
During the 20 years she lived in Paris, Sarah was the dancing partner of tap legend Jimmy Slyde. Their show "It's About Time" was featured in jazz festivals throughout France and Europe. A major force in establishing rhythm tap in France, Sarah headed the Tap Dance Department of the American Center in Paris and founded the Git-Le-Coeur Cultural Center. In 1992 she joined the faculty of the Dance Center of Columbia College and created the "Chicago on Tap" festival. She has broken ground as a woman in the jazz world bringing her special style of jazz rhythms and improvisation to jazz clubs in Europe, the USA and to jazz festivals (Jazz Yatra India, Juan les Pins, Antibes). Sarah has performed in the Colorado, Portland, Boston, Fort Worth, St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago and Tel Aviv tap reunions. She currently resides in Paris, teaches workshops, solos with her be bop quartet "Just Friends" and together with her daughter Leela dances in their "Jazz in Motion" concert series. Email: petronio@club-internet.fr
MAX POLLAK
Born and raised in Vienna, Austria, Max Pollak began his career as jazz drummer and tap dancer, while studying dancing, acting and singing. After engagements in many musicals and jazz festivals in Europe and his own TV special in Austria, he moved to New York City to tour extensively with "Manhattan Tap" and continue his intensive studies of jazz and world music (Mannes College, Harbor Conservatory, Jimmy Slyde's "University of La Cave", Tamango van Cayseele's "Deana's", the streets of New York.)
His work as tap soloist, musician and choreographer includes an "All Star" list of collaborators and prestigious venues: Ray Brown, Danilo Perez, Jimmy Slyde, Gregory Hines, Steve Turré, Carol Channing, Carl Reiner, Carrie Smith, Savion Glover, Buster Brown, Chuck Green, Candido Camero, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas from Cuba, J.P. Torres, Tania Maria, Bobby Watson, Lincoln Center; Radio City Music Hall; Sweet Basil's; JVC/Panasonic Jazz Festivals in NYC; Tanglewood; Jacob's Pillow; University of Havanna and Escuela Nacional de Arte, Cuba; Vienna's Konzerthaus.
Mr. Pollak is recognized worldwide for his highly individual style of improvisation and teaching utilizing tap, body rhythm, and vocals, and for being the first person to merge authentic Afro-Cuban dance and music with tap. He frequently teaches and choreographs for internationally acclaimed artists in Cuba. He coached Pablo Veron for the tap sequences in Sally Potter's 1996 film "The Tango Lesson". In '97 Rod Ferrone and Mr. Pollak formed the successful duo-act "Feet 2 The Beat", touring the world from South America to Canada, from the US to Japan to Europe. With Tamango van Cayseele he collaborated in "Urban Tap" and in "Cool Heat-Urban Beat", a show combining Hip Hop (Rennie Harris Pure Movement) and jazz tap dance which was the hit of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1998 and at Saddler's Wells Theater in London's West End. Many thanks to tap legends Buster Brown and Carnell Lyons for being an eternal source of joy and for opening the path.
VAN PORTER
Van Porter was a featured dancer in the Broadway musical Black and Blue and studied with Maceo Anderson, whom he portrayed in a tribute to the Four Step Brothers. An eight-time winner on "Star Search," he reached the finals as a member of the "Rhythm Kings." He has toured the US, Japan, Switzerland, Spain and France and worked with such greats as Tito Puente, George Benson, Carrie Smith, Cab Calloway and Wynton Marsalis.
He performed for the President of the United States at the Kennedy Center Awards honoring th Nicholas Brothers and also performed in the Lincoln Center Jazz Program, "The Majesty of Tap" with Jimmy Slyde. His recent credits include a tribute to Jimmy Slyde, a performance for the King of Morocco and a tribute to Duke Ellington. he can be seen in the movie "Tap" and in a documentary about Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates. [Information and photo taken from Southern California Tap Festival brochure.]
More information is available on Van's web site.
PAMELA RAFF
Jazz tap dancer Pamela Raff, choreographer, performer, educator and recording artist, known as an innovator and master technician, has danced throughout the USA and in Germany. Solo and collaborative performance venues, from concert stage and jazz club to radio and television, have included Brooklyn Academy of Music, Boston Globe Jazz Festival, Lincoln Center, WABC and WNBC TV, National Public Radio and Public Radio International. In 1994 Pamela released a highly acclaimed CD recording of her works entitled FEET FIRST.
Mentored and partnered by the late and legendary Leon Collins, Pamela also studied tap with Clint Hamblin, Joe Stirling Beath, Brenda Bufalino and Honi Coles, and brings to her dancing a backround of training in ballet and jazz dance, and in music. In 1982 she and Leon Collins opened the renowned Leon Collins Dance Studio, Inc., in Brookline MA, "dedicated to the preservation, education and evolution of the art of jazz tap dance", where she served as Artistic and Executive Director from 1987 through 1992.
Currently on the faculty of Mount Holyoke College, Pamela has had long term artistic residencies with Brandeis University Masters in Theater Program, Boston University Theatre Institute and the Boston Center for the Arts. In 1995 she co- created, with pianist Paul Barringer, JAZZ YOUTH PROJECT, a ground breaking educational program that cross shares a curriculum of jazz music and jazz tap dance with that of academic subjects, housed in the Boston Public Schools. The recent recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council Choreography Grant, Pamela was also nominated for "Jazz Artist of the Year" by the New England Foundation for the Arts.
Contact telephone 617-738-9776, or e-mail Ffarmap@aol.comIDELLA REED
Idella Reed hails from one of America's oldest tap institutions, the Sammy Dyer School of Theater and Dance, where she has been on the faculty since 1981. She is a repository of knowledge in technique and rhythm which spans this school's 65 years of operation in Chicago. Idella began her training with Muriel Foster and continued her training with another graduate of the Dayer School, Ted Levy. She is founder and director of one of Chicago's newest tap companies "Rhythm I.S.S." Since 1986 Idella has been a guest artist with the annual tap cultural exchange between the Dyer Schools in Nassau and Chicago. |
ROBERT REED |
ROBERT REED, the Master of Flash himself, director of the St. Louis Tap Festival and founder/director of the St. Louis Hoofer's Club, is the grandson of Maceo Anderson (original member of the Fabulous Four Step Brothers). A master himself, Robert has appeared with such luminaries as Sammy Davis Jr., Liberace, Jerry Lewis and Redd Foxx, just to name a few.
Robert is now performing with son, Robert, Jr. and daughter, Robin, as "Six Feet of Rhythm." He teaches at festivals from coast to coast and performs nationally and internationally. He is a member of the National Tap Ensemble which also features James "Buster" Brown. Contact Information: (312) 761-4889. [There is more information on Robert Reed from the St. Louis Tap Festival.]EARLE SCOGGINS
EARLE SCOGGINS, Born in 1920 in St. Louis, Mo., has a wealth of knowledge and experience acquired from the street corners in Chicago to vaudeville theaters and stages around the world. He developed an early interest in the performing arts through his mother, a professional musician who took him along to the theaters where she worked. During the Depression, Earle found himself dancing for spare change on street corners ('buskin'), and eventually worked his way into vaudeville and burlesque.
He left the windy city in 1935, stowed away on a train to New York City. He was fourteen years old and bound for show business. Earle spent countless hours in New York theaters watching dancers and learning their routines. After the concerts, he'd hang out backstage, or at the rear door of the theater, and ask performers to teach him a few steps or tricks. Earle's older brother Virgil was already a established drummer performing regularly in New York clubs like Jack Dempsey's. Virgil introduced Earle to his colleagues in music and dance. During these years Earle earned a living doing odd jobs and by "busking."
From 1944 to 1946 Earle served in the Army Air Corps in the Pacific theater building airstrips. After the war he wound up in Philadelphia, where he met and began performing with LaVaughn Robinson using the stage name "LaVaughn & Maximillian." After twenty years of traveling and performing together, Earle made the decision in 1974 to get off the road. He wanted to devote more time to his wife and children.
Despite having to earn his living in other fields, Earle has remained active in dance throughout his life. He has performed and taught in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Israel, Australia and Nova Scotia, and currently teaches at Syracuse U. and the Metropolilan School for the Arts in Syracuse, N.Y.
[Ed: Biographical notes are from the program of a tribute night for LaVaughn Robinson in Philadelphia, May 1, 1993 and an email quick bio accompanying an announcement of a tap master class held by Mr. Scoggins.]
HANK SMITH
Hank Smith performs his own original choreography which includes solo performance and some group pieces in the NYC area. His performance background is varied: featured performer in the NY Clown Theatre Festival as a clown in 1985; studied and performed in Japan, Mexico, Ireland and Brazil; as a dancer has performed with Charles "Cookie" Cook and many modern dancers (once on EYE ON DANCE on WNYC-TV); has taught college for the past 23 years (African American Performance, Oral Communication, Tap Dance, TV Production Introduction to Acting, The Art of Mime); also stage-managed on SESAME STREET since 1978 and appeared twice on the show as Savion Glover's teacher.
Recent work included an original collaboration with composer/percussionist David Pleasant called "Wade In The Water" which had a successful run at Dixon Place in lower Manhattan. Email: Bagel5@aol.com Hank has also assembled a Web: http://traditionintap.com/Faculty/Hank_Smith/
LINDA SOHL-DONNELL
Linda Sohl-Donnell is the Artistic Director and Choreographer for Rhapsody In Taps, a Los Angeles-based touring company founded in 1981 featuring six dancers and five musicians. Her training includes an extensive background in modern dance, ballet, jazz and studies under the great tap masters: Foster Johnson, Eddie Brown, Honi Coles and Buster Brown. This blend of disciplines has developed into a form of choreography which incorporates kinetic, visual and aural rhythmic elements.
Ms. Sohl-Donnell has been awarded four Choreographer's Fellowships from the NEA, a Monticello Fellowship from the National Association for Regional Ballet, and a Brody Fellowship from the California Community Foundation for her choreography. Since 1978 she has been on the dance faculty at Orange Coast College and has toured throughout the US, Asia, France and Germany teaching and performing. Her film credits include "Tap" and the upcoming documentary "Tap, The Tempo of America." [Information and photo taken from Southern California Tap Festival brochure.]
LLOYD STOREY
LLOYD STOREY, directs the Tap Repertory Ensemble and performed with bands led by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Count Basie. During the 40's, Lloyd toured with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and later co-founded The Sultans. He continues to perform with one of the original members Frank Colvard and teaches Intermediate and Advanced Levels of Rhythm Tap.FRED STRICKLER
Fred Strickler has danced and choreographed since 1961 for film, television, musical theatre and the concert stage in th US, Europe and Southeast Asia. He was a member of the Bella Lewitzky Dance Co., and a co-founder of "Eyes Wide Open Dance Theater" and the "Jazz Tap Ensemble."
He is currently a featured soloist and choreographer for Rhapsody In Taps, and he directs his own pickup company, Fred Strickler and Friends. Fred also performs Morton Gould's "Tap Dance Concerto" and "Hoofer's Suite" with symphony orchestras. An active choreographer, he has created more than 100 dances and has received six NEA Choreographer's Fellowships as well as a California Arts Council Artist Fellowship. He is currently a Professor of Dance at UC Riverside where he has taught since 1967.
Fred now directs his company Fred Strickler & Friends--New Ideas On Tap and can be reached via email: fred.strickler@ucr.edu [Information and photo taken from Southern California Tap Festival brochure.]
SWIFT BROTHERS
The Swift Brothers are a Vaudeville Tap/Specialty Dance Act which combines rhythmic riffs and humor in an eclectic repertoire. Recently, they restaged choreography of the the legendary Nicholas Brothers at the St. Louis Tap Festival. Performing regularly in Chicago and producing and hosting a regular tap jam. Contact: (John) (708) 351-1597.
The Swifts -- Chicago-based dancers George Hohagen and John Kloss -- are astonishing. First, they brought down the house with a drolly funny, technically brilliant take on the [William Tell Overture]. Then, they pulled off a first-rate recreation of the Nicholas Brothers' "Down Argentine Way"... Chicago Sun Times
TOBIAS TAK
Born in Holland Tobias Tak became fascinated with classic American rhythm tap. He studied with Honi Coles, Harold Nicholas, Chuck Green, Pepsi Bethal, Cookie Cook, Buster Brown and Brenda Buffalino. He also learned jazz dance, singing and ballet. After success as a solo cabaret dancer in Holland,with Chazz Young in New York and with Harold Nicholas, Tobias spent two years as a guest dancer/choreographer with Djazzez,the Dutch modern jazz dance company, before moving to London where he has been based ever since. He guested with Will Gaines, the Jiving Lindy Hoppers and Bullies Ballerinas and co-founded Zoots & Spangles with Ryan Francois in 1987, touring with Humphrey Littleton. He has created and toured his own shows and in 1996 featured in Dance Umbrellas Percussive Feet festival at the Cochrane Theatre,London. Tobias teaches at Dance Works in London as well as guest teaching at numerous other venues.BOB THOMAS
Bob Thomas directs a professional company the award-winning Kamikaze Jitterbugs, specializing in American dance styles from 1920 to 1960, including tap. The Boston Globe headlined a review "Jitterbugs shake the dust off the steps of the past." The group toured Asia with The Artie Shaw Orchestra, danced with The Boston Pops on July 4, 1995 for 325,000 live audience and national TV and we danced with Illinois Jacquet at the Newport Jazz Festival. Bob's tap work includes (and often mixes) various styles, including improvisational jazz tap, buck-and-wing, softshoe, body percussion, vernacular and eccentric dance. He teaches tap and American dance styles at Roger Williams University, choreographs for his own company, Bridgewater State College and various studios. He has a Web page and Email is bob@bobethomas.comGLENN TURNBULL
Glenn Turnbull's stage, film and television career spans more than 50 years. His early credits include performances at the Hollywood Playhouse, the National and Plymouth Theaters in New York and summer stock in the US and Canada. Glenn has acted, danced and choreographed for numerous TV programs including The Red Skelton Show (3 years), The Jack Benny Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show and I Love Lucy. He has acted and danced in many Hollwood films and one of the highlights of his film work was the opportunity to work as assistant choreographer to Leroy Prinz on several musicals. Glenn describes his style of dance as legomania and was greatly influenced by Hal LeRoy and Louis DaPron, with whom he studied in the '50s.TONY WAAG
Tony Waag
Tony Waag is currently the Executive Director and a featured dancer of the American Tap Dance Orchestra in New York City. Originally from Colorado, he has performed in, and choreographed for, many concert, nightclub, stage, industrial, video and television productions throughout the US and abroad.
In New York he has performed at the Apollo Theater, the Joyce Theater, the legendary Cotton Club, Town Hall, Symphony Space, the United Nations, the 1995 Tap Extravaganza, and the Lincoln Center's "Out-of-Doors" Festival He has also toured extensively throughout the United States with the ATDO.
His international appearances include a USIA tour of Turkey, Poland, Cyprus, Latvia and Estonia, the 1993 Bermuda Arts Festival, a recent tour of Germany and Italy with his mentor Brenda Bufalino, and a return engagement to Tallinn, Estonia. where he taught a three day workshop and premiered his new solo show "Tap Happy" which combines tap dancing, singing and comedy.
Tony is producing the NYC Tap Festival (http://NYCTapFestival.com), and his new production company, Footage Production Inc. (http://FootageInc.com) was formed to establish a higher level of understanding and examination of tap dance as an art form by presenting and producing various concert, stage, and film productions throughout the year.
[See http://www.tapdancing.org/ for more information.]
DIANNE WALKER
Dianne Walker is one of the few internationally recognized women in the field of Tap Dance. As a pioneer in the resurgence of tap, she is a frequent guest artist at many of the major events in the world of dance. For over 20 years, her career has taken her to Broadway, television, theater and numerous universities and jazz performance venues throughout the world.
Ms. Walker holds a Master's degree in Education, and was a participant at the Dance USA/National Task Force on Dance Education. She has been awarded grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council and The National Endowment of the Arts. In 1996, she represented the United States as an adjudicator for the World Tap Dance Championships, held in Dresden, Germany. In Boston, 1997, she received the "Tapestry Award" for excellence in teaching. In 1998, she received the "Living Treasure In American Dance Award" from Oklahoma City University.
Ms. Walker was a featured dancer in the movie Tap with Gregory Hines and Sammy Davis Jr. She was a featured dancer (and chorus girl) in the original Paris production of Black and Blue. In the Broadway production of Black and Blue, she was the Assistant Choreographer/Dance Captain. During those two years, she also had the prestigious honor of being the only female dancer in the famed "Hoofers Line" with Lon Chaney, Jimmy Slyde, Chuck Green and Bunny Briggs. She has been featured in documentaries such as "Songs Unwritten....Leon Collins"; "Honi Coles.....The Class Act of Tap"; "Black and Blue".....(Robert Altman/PBS) and "Great Performances-Tap Dance in America"....( Gregory Hines/PBS).
Dance training began in Boston with Mildred Kennedy, Leon Collins, and the Slyde Brothers, Jimmy "Sir Slyde" Mitchell and Jimmy Slyde. During those years, she was fortunate to have opportunity to work and study with many of the great legends of tap dance; Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins, Eddie Brown, Steve Condos, Nicholas Brothers, Frankie Manning, Henry LeTang, Chuck Green and Buster Brown to name a few. Leon Collins became her mentor and in 1979 she began her professional dance career under his watchful eye. Leon passed away in l985, leaving Dianne as one of the Directors of his school. It is with a great sense of pride that she continues to share his legacy with her students worldwide.
Ms. Walker currently lives in Boston and was appointed by the governor to a seat on the Board of the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is the Artistic Director of "Tappin' in Boston" and continues her work as a performer, master teacher and dance educator/consultant. Contact: LadyDi@Tapdancer.com [Photo taken from Southern California Tap Festival brochure.]
SAM WEBER
Sam Weber was protege of the late Stan Kahn (developer of "Kahnotation".) Sam studied at Juilliard, went on to dnce with the Joffrey Ballet and has distinguished himself as an tap virtuoso in concert tours across the US, Europe, Asia and South America. He is much sought-after as a master teacher. Sam has appeared with Charles "Honi" Coles, Gregory Hines, Steve Condos, Jimmy Slyde and the Nicholas Brothers. He received the 1994 "Bessie" in New York for excellence in dance performance. [Contact info on the 'Sounds of Tap page.]CHRISTY WYANT
Christy Wyant, a graduate of San Jose university studied Limon Technique with Fred Mathews and Gary Masters. Before joining Rhapsody In Taps in 1992, she was a member of two companies in the Bay Area: University Dance Theater and San Jose Sister City Jazz/Tap Company. She toured Japan, Ireland and the US with both dance companies and taught tap workshops in Portland, Northern California, and England.KAREN ZEBULON
Karen Zebulon, photographer, tap dancer, teacher, choreographer and producer, has produced numerous dance and musical performances, including "Ted Levy an Friends", directed by Gregory Hines; "Tap Fever", a tap talk show, hosted by Gregory Hines and Brenda Bufalino, at The New School in New York City; "Urban Tap" with Herbin Van Cayseele at The New School; and "Moving Lyrics" with Creative Outlet Dance Theater of Brooklyn. She was Associate Producer of Ornette Coleman's "Architecture in Motion" an ethnical ballet with eight dancers representing different countries and a chamber orchestra, in Koln, Germany.
Most recently she is publisher and photographer of the 1999 and 2000 Tap Dance Calendars, available through the ITA and producer of weekly Tap Shows at Cafe Forty-One in Brooklyn Heights, hosted by many of today's top dancers.
She is founder and director of "World Rhythm Ensemble" the New York-based tap collaborative, which features and combines the rhythm, mediums and dance of different ultures. Her pieces have benn presented at the "Nuyorican Poets Cafe" in NYC and Art Space in New Haven, Conecticut where she was selected by critic Elizabeth Zimmer, Dance Critic for The Village Voice, as a highlighted new choreographer. Trained by Savion Glover, Herbin Van Cayseele, Van Porter, Barbara Duffy and Peggy Spina, she performed weekly at New York's La Place and La Cave with Jimmy Slyde. She is currently teaching at Steps on Broadway in NYC, and The St. George Health Club in Brooklyn. Her photographs of tap dancers and jazz musicians have been published in major newspapers and magazines.