Melbourne’s annual Australian Tap Dance Festival is always a favourite for tap dance enthusiasts. Founded in 2012 by Winston Morrison, ATDF’s mission is to bring the art of tap into the wider dance community.  With seven days of workshops, masterclasses and residencies, the festival caters to all ages, from beginner level to advanced. Focussed on showcasing tap skills, attendees also enjoy tap trivia and battles, interactive performances and many other fun-filled events. The ATDF team certainly meets their goal of sharing their love of tap with everyone.  A stellar faculty of leading tap exper ..read more

The Faculty of the Australian Tap Dance Festival has come together to unite world-renowned tap dancers and local students on one stage, demonstrating a lighthearted but captivating sounding spectacle. The show is set in a modest venue of a private girls’ school theatre, finished with carpeted floors and a highly raised matte-looking stage. In the left corner sits a silky black grand piano waiting patiently to be played. Tappers can be seen and heard shuffling through the wings backstage, while the audience is seeping in slowly. Each act would be no longer than three or four minutes, keep the ..read more

Australia’s Tap Dance Festival is coming to Melbourne this September for a week of action-packed tap classes and performances by renowned dance tapping professionals from across the globe. The only festival of its kind in Australasia provides all dancers the opportunity to participate in master classes, choreography introductions, tap jams, history lessons, dance-offs, seminars and special events. The festival will run across two venues at Dance Factory in Richmond and Chapel Off Chapel in Prahran from September 30 to October 6. The festival faculty includes some of the highest profiled peo ..read more

Dance Writer speaks to Australian female tap artist Brianna Taylor about her recent international success with Nick Young’s Rhythmatic Tap Company.  You are a tap sensation not only in Australia but also in Paris and now LA! How does it feel knowing you are the first Australian to be accepted residency to Nick Young’s Rhythmatic Tap Company? Was it an open audition process or were you approached?  I couldn’t be more grateful for these opportunities I’ve had in my career and I am humbled to be apart of Rhythmatic Tap Company and Nick’s vision for our new show ‘On Top of the World’. I’ve been f ..read more