Happy #TapTuesday! Let’s start the last day of Women’s History Month off right.
Dormeshia (
@dormeshia ) has been called “the mastress of her generation.” She began tap dancing at the age of 3 under the instruction of Paul and Arlene Kennedy at Universal Dance Theatre. At 8, she performed at the Tip Tap Festival in Rome. At 12, she made her Broadway debut Black and Blue, alongside Gregory Hines, Jimmy Slyde, Buster Brown and Savion Glover. In 1989, the New York Times described her as part of a young generation who “have the certain something.” After graduating from high school, Sumbry-Edwards joined Lynn Dally’s (
@lynndally ) Jazz Tap Ensemble as a soloist. also appeared on Broadway in the Tony Award-winning Bring In Da’Noise, Bring In Da’Funk as the only female tap dancer, initially appearing dressed as a man. She has toured extensively in the United States and abroad. In 1998, she married fellow dancer Omar Edwards and opened a studio with him in Harlem.
As an instructor, Dormeshia has taught on the International Tap Festival circuit including the New York City Tap Festival, the Los Angeles Tap Festival, the Campinas Tap Festival, for K-Broadway in Tokyo, and at the Broadway Dance Center in New York City.
After her experience hearing responses to her role in Bring In Da’Noise, Bring In Da’Funk alongside male dancers, Dormeshia decided to think about new ways of teaching techniques of rhythm-tap for women, culminating in a Harlem Tap Studio course for Women in Heels described as “countering the downward-driving, piston-driven attack of traditional (male) rhythm-tapping styles with steps that were structured along more circuitous paths of attack.” Dormeshia was also a featured performer in Broadway’s After Midnight for which she also won an Astaire Award for Best Performance.
That’s Dormeshia in Stockholm.
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STF 2019 Faculty Spotlight: DORMESHIA
