Michelle Dorrance

2018 Convocation: A piece created for the finale of convocation during a multi-day intensive with first-year 跳舞 students, featuring Creative Associates Lil Buck, 卡罗琳·肖, 比尔欧文, 和Dorrance 查看视频

2019: Choreographer for the finale piece Here Is Our Space created with Creative Associate 卡罗琳·肖 and performed alongside fellow Creative Associates, faculty member Areta Zhulla, and Juilliard music and dance students 查看视频 | 查看程序

Guest Artist at 跳舞 Division 历史 Seminars: An examination of the global history of tap with second-year 跳舞 students (in person in Spring 2019; on Zoom in Spring 2020)

Michelle Dorrance is a New York City-based artist. Mentored by Gene Medler (North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble), she studied under many of the last master hoofers. Career highlights include 跺脚德里克·格兰特的 想象一下水龙头!, Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels/Chasing the Bird, Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap 跳舞r我是梅布尔·李 跳舞的女人, and playing bass for Darwin Deez. Company work includes Savion Glover’s Ti Dii, Manhattan Tap, Barbara Duffy & Company, JazzTap Ensemble, and Rumba Tap. Solo work ranges from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to commissions for the Martha Graham 跳舞 Company and American Ballet Theatre. A 2018 Doris Duke Artist, 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Dorrance has been acknowledged and supported by United States Artists, the Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Alpert Awards, 雅各布的枕头, Princess Grace Foundation, 这个领域, American Tap 跳舞 Foundation, and the Bessie Awards. Dorrance holds a BA from New York University and is a Capezio Athlete.