Beginner tap class: This class will focus on basic tap technique that will help increase balance, memory, rhythmic breathing, and body consciousness. We will also explore basic music theory and Jazz standards that will provide structure for phrasing, repetition, and tools for improvisation.

About the Instructor

Alexandria “Brinae Ali” Bradley started her artistic training in dance, theater, and music at home in Flint, MI with her father Bruce Bradley. She later studied theater at Marymount Manhattan College while training under Ted Levy, Savion Glover, and Dianne Walker. Bradley’s Broadway and off-Broadway credits include assistant dance captain for “Shuffle Along: the 1921 Sensation And All That Followed”, NY and Touring cast of STOMP, special feature in Cotton Club Parade with Wynton Marsalis, and was a part of New York City Center Off-Center Encores production of “Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope”. She also served as artistic director of Tapology Youth Tap Festival in Flint, MI. Currently she is a lecturer at John Hopkins Peabody Institute for Music and Dance while developing a work in progress with trumpeter Sean Jones called “Dizzy Spellz” fusing tap, Bebop, Hip Hop, and Afro Cuban music to articulate the African American experience through the music of Dizzy Gillespie from a Afrofuturistic lense.

We will also be hosting a tap intensive for intermediate and advanced tap dancers on February 10^th and 11^th.  For more information and to register please email [email protected]