Tamera DallamTamera Dallam is a performer and teacher who put on her first pair of tap shoes in 2004 and hasn’t stop tapping since. She is well-known as one of the ensemble's star improvisers and has performed with the company in Koresh's Come Together Dance Festival, the Kimmel Center's Fall Arts Fest, and That Which Connects Camden. She also originated the role of the Fairy Tapmother in The Lady Hoofers' annual holiday production of The Tapcracker. In her free time, Tamera attends tap festivals up and down the east coast where she has taken master classes with Chloe Arnold, Jason Samuels Smith, Dianne Walker, and Sarah Reich.
Tamera joined The Lady Hoofers in 2015 as a First Company Dancer and was promoted to Youth Ensemble Rehearsal Assistant in 2018 and then Associate Director in 2021. She has also served as a Teaching Artist for The Lady Hoofers' Outreach Residency program at Moffet Elementary School. In 2024, Tamera assumed the role of Artistic Director, succeeding the company's founder Kat Echevarría Richter. In addition to directing The Lady Hoofers, she currently teaches rhythm tap at Parkside Academy of Music and Dance. |
Rochelle HaynesRochelle Marie Haynes is a native of Dallas, Texas where she began her dance training at the age of 3. She received her BFA in modern dance from the University of the Arts.
Rochelle joined Tap Team Two and Company as a principal dancer in 1997 and became Dance Captain in 2012. She was on faculty for Temple University’s Dance Department for three semesters and in 2021 she was asked to join the Musical Theater Department. Miss Haynes was on faculty from 2005 to 2022 at the University of the Arts, and is in her nineteenth year as the Guest Artist in Residence for Tap Ties at Cedar Crest College. Rochelle performed the choreography of Germaine Ingram in “Danceboom 2005”, Philadelphia Folklore Project’s “Dance Happens Here” 2006 and 2008, the “Tap Extravaganza” in New York City, and at the University of the Arts in 2005 and 2008 which were special tribute performances to the late great LaVaughn Robinson. In 2011 she had the wonderful opportunity to perform original choreography of Bill BoJangles Robinson and Charles “Honi” Coles of the Copasetics in New York at the Symphony Space Theater. In the summer of 2018 Rochelle performed the choreography of Lynn Schwabb in ATDF’s Tap It Out! |
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Star Dixon is an assistant director, choreographer, and original principal dancer of world renowned tap company, MADD Rhythms. She has taught and performed at the most distinguished tap festivals in the country including The L.A. Tap Fest, DC Tap Fest, RIFF Dallas, Chicago Human Rhythm Project's Rhythm World, and MADD Rhythms own Chicago Tap Summit. She’s performed internationally in Poland, Japan, and Brazil to name a few. Performance venues include Jacob’s Pillow, Kennedy Center, and the Lincoln Center. Outside of MADD Rhythms, she's performed as a guest with such companies as Michelle Dorrance's Dorrance Dance and Savion Glover’s All Funk’d Up. Most recent awards include 3arts Make a Wave 2019, Chicago Dance Makers Forum lab artist 2022, Chicago Reader Best Dancer 2021 and Best Choreographer 2022.
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