​Whether you've new to tap, or have years of experience under your belt, our Winter Class Series is for you! Our series returns in 2026 on Sunday afternoons with two 4-week sessions running January 11 - February 1 and February 15 - March 8. Sign up today to guarantee early bird pricing (only available through December 20)!

Classes will be held at Dance Time Dance Academy, ​1650 Limekiln Pike, Dresher, PA 19025. Pre-registration is required; individual and drop in classes are not available for this series.

Pricing:
• Early bird rates (through December 20): $95 per 4-week session, or $180 for both
• After December 20: $100 per 4-week session, or $190 for both.
• Scholarship applications are due December 20. For more information, or for registration assistance, contact Emily at [email protected]

​Important Schedule Notes:
• The last day of Session Two (March 8) will include class from 3:00-4:00pm for all levels, followed by our Student Showcase and Open House Reception from 4:00-5:00pm. Each class will perform a short routine, warm up, or improvisation exercise, and guests are welcome to attend in support of those performing. Participation in the final showcase is optional; absences need not preclude participation. The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble will also give a work-in-progress showing of this year's guest artist commission, choreographed by Dre Torres.
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FAQs:
• Online pre-registration required; payment is due upon registration. Space is limited; all sales are final.
• Dancers of all gender identities are welcome!
• For more information, including scholarship opportunities or registration assistance, contact Emily at [email protected]

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​Levels
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Advanced Beginner (adult only)
• Intended for adults who have some previous experience with tap and are looking to have fun and improve their skills! We will review basic tap rudiments including balls and heels, shuffles, flaps, cramp rolls, and paddle rolls. Students will also work on their musicality through a variety of call and response exercises and improvisation games.
• 3:00 - 4:00pm with Tamera Dallam
• Open to adults ages 18+
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Intermediate/Advanced (youth/teen)
• For dancers with a minimum of two years of experience in tap. We will work on cramp rolls, paddle rolls, time steps, pullbacks, wings and other intermediate steps. Students will also work to increase their understanding of jazz music fundamentals including improvisation, syncopation, and swing.
• 4:00 - 5:00pm with Tamera Dallam
• Open to youth/teens ages 9+, adults welcome

​Advanced/Pre-Professional* (teen/adult)
• For dancers with a minimum of five years of experience in tap. We will focus on rhythm, working through advanced variations of a variety of tap steps. Classes will typically include tap history and improvisation as well. 
• 3:00 - 4:00pm with Robyn Watson
• Open to teens/adults ages 15+

*Special consideration will be given to professional dancers who are interested in taking our Company Class with Robyn Watson from 4:00 - 5:00pm. To apply, please contact Emily at [email protected].
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Instructors

Tamera 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.

Robyn Watson, a Philadelphia native, has performed with innovators and trailblazers in the discipline of tap dance, including Dianne Walker, Germaine Ingram, Savion Glover and the late, legendary Mabel Lee. She began dancing at the age of five, training at La-Cher-Tari Dance Studio and later at Wissahickon Dance Academy. At the age of ten, Robyn was asked to join the Philadelphia based Tap Team Two and Company where she served as member and choreographer until 2002. In 2005, Dance Spirit Magazine listed Robyn as one of the “20 Hot Tappers, 20 and Under.” In 2016, Robyn served as the tap instructor for the Broadway sensation Shuffle Along. She has collaborated and performed with Grammy Award-winning and MacArthur Genius recipient, Rhiannon Giddens. Over the past ten years she has had the opportunity to work and study under the direction of Tony Award-winning choreographer Savion Glover, performing in several of his productions, including Sole Power, Stepz and Bare Soundz. Robyn was a resident artist at the Painted Bride Art Center, where she began developing The Blackbirds’ Suites, a trilogy of tap dance narratives that address Black women’s identity throughout American history.

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