Creating in Jazz and Tap Dance | Artist Faculty
July 21 – July 27, July 28 – August 3
A proud Canadian and New Yorker, Lisa La Touche is a tap dance artist, choreographer, educator, and cultural historian. Her performance credits include being an original cast member in Broadway’s Shuffle Along, choreographed by Savion Glover and Directed by George C. Wolfe, where she received both the Fred Astaire Award and the Actor’s Equity Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus. She is proudly an Armstrong Now Artist in Residence in collaboration and connection with the Louis Armstrong House and Museum. Additionally, Lisa focuses a portion of her research and exploration in connection with her Trinidadian ancestry and is the brainchild behind her passion project, Trinidad & Tap Dance: As Folklore.
Her TV credits include the 70th Annual Tony Awards and Amazon’s original Z: The Beginning of Everything. Previous highlights have also included touring with the Savion Glover production Stepz, performing with Dormeshia at Harlem’s legendary Cotton Club, as well as performing with both New York’s Off-Broadway and the North American touring casts of STOMP. Since 2010, Lisa has directed her own performance company, Tap Phonics, and has been commissioned to present choreographic works for institutions such as The Brooklyn Museum, 92Y, Gibney Dance, Decidedly Jazz, and Fall For Dance North.
As an educator and professor, she is currently on faculty at PACE University and Marymount Manhattan College, in addition to having taught at NYU, The School at Jacob’s Pillow, Rosie’s Theater Kids, the University of Calgary, Decidedly Jazz Danceworks, and the American Tap Dance Foundation. She is also a writer and director and has enjoyed collaborating on documentary filmmaking including her film TRAX encompassing her journey back to Alberta while discovering African-American migration history to western Canada, bridging histories across borders within the African Diaspora. Above all, her proudest achievement greatest inspiration, is the gift of being a mom.
For further info, please visit www.lisalatouche.com.
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