Michael J. Love is an interdisciplinary tap dance artist, scholar, and educator. He is a 2021-2023 Princeton University Arts Fellow and Lecturer in the Program in Dance at Princeton's Lewis Center for the Arts. His work has been supported and presented by Fusebox Festival and ARCOS Dance and he and frequent collaborator Ariel René Jackson were co-recipients of the 2021 Tito’s Prize. His embodied research intermixes Black queer feminist theory and aesthetics with a rigorous practice that critically engages the Black cultural past as it imagines Black futurity. Love holds an M.F.A. in Performance as Public Practice from University of Texas at Austin.
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Michael J. Love visited The Lady Hoofers in 2023 for a series of rehearsals, during which he set an original piece of choreography on the ensemble as part of his ongoing #sampledmixedandremixed series. "See-Line Woman” premiered at The Lady Hoofers On Tap in May 2023. This project was supported in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. |
Michele Dunleavy visited Philadelphia in 2019 for a series of master classes and rehearsals, during which she set an original piece of choreography on the ensemble. “Past, Presence, Future” premiered in The Lady Hoofers On Tap in May 2019. This project was supported in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. |
Lisa LaTouche, both Canadian and a New Yorker, has performed, choreographed and taught worldwide. Lisa’s credits include Broadway’s 2016 revival of Shuffle Along, choreographed by Savion Glover and directed by George C. Wolfe. With the cast, she performed live at the 70th Annual TONY Awards and she was a recipient of the Fred Astaire award for “Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway show” and the A.C.C.A. Actor’s Equity Award for “Outstanding Broadway Chorus.” Lisa has appeared on Amazon’s Original Z, The beginning of everything, toured with Savion Glover in Stepz, and was in both the New York and North American touring casts of STOMP. She currently runs her own performance company Tap Phonics and has been commissioned to present for such organizations such as The Brooklyn Museum, 92Y and Fall For Dance North. As an educator and professor, Lisa has taught for PACE University, NYU, The School of Jacob’s Pillow, University of Calgary, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, and serves on the creative council for the American Tap Dance Foundation. Above all, her proudest achievement is the gift of being a mom.
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Lisa LaTouche worked with the ensemble in April and May 2021 through a series of tutorial videos and Zoom coaching session to set a new, original work "Honey Somethin' Blues" on the ensemble including a new musical arrangement created with the help of jazz great Tommy Campbell. "Honey Somethin' Blues" premiered at The Lady Hoofers' 10th Anniversary Gala in May 2022.
This project was supported in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. |
Dolores Sanchez visited Philadelphia in 2017 for a series of master classes and rehearsals, during which she set “CMYK” on the ensemble, the company’s first commissioned choreographic work. This project was supported in part by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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Robyn Watson worked with the ensemble in January and February 2020 during which she taught a series of master classes and set a new work on the ensemble. "Songs from the Sole" premiered at On Tap in May 2023. This project was supported in part by the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
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Becky Mastin was a First Company Dancer, Rehearsal Assistant, and Choreographer for The Lady Hoofers from its founding in 2011 until 2016. She continues to choreograph for the ensemble. Her most recent commission, “Love Me or Leave Me” premiered in The Lady Hoofers On Tap in May 2019. |
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