TAP IN HEELS MASTER CLASS with MELINDA SULLIVAN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9th from 8:00 – 9:30pm Attention Tappers in Heels!! Tomorrow evening, Monday, November 9, from 8 to 9:30pm, Melinda Sullivan will be conducting a Tap in Heels Master Class. Jason is offering this class as a gift to the dancers in his Tuesday 7:15pm advanced Tap heels class. Jason’s Tuesday 7:15pm class will not be held this week. Other tappers may attend subject to available space and approval by the studio office. Click => youtu.be/ujJxqOCS-Rk for Melinda in Shakin the Blues Away Melinda Sullivan is a dancer, choreographer and actress. She is best known for her work on So You Think You Can Dance, where she was a finalist in the television series seventh season, and as the 2012 winner of the Capezio A.C.E. Award. That entry, Gone, debuted in expanded form in New York in August 2013. Born in East Meadow, New York, and raised in Thousand Oaks, California, Melinda began tap dancing at a studio at age four, turning professional at age 14. Her mentors included Jason Samuels Smith and Chloe Arnold. In 2004, Melinda won the coveted Music Center Spotlight Award in Non-Classical Dance, culminating in a solo performance at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion. As a high school senior, she won a role in the Cats 25th anniversary touring company, followed by the inaugural national tour of High School Musical on Stage! In 2009, she played Zoe Finn in the American soap opera As The World Turns. The following year, she finished 9th place in the seventh season of the U.S. version of So You Think You Can Dance. Melinda has also toured with Emmy-Award winner Jason Samuels Smiths A.C.G.I. tap company, which blends an improvisational style with tap dance choreography. Recently, Melindas dancing and choreography on her work Gone won Dance Teacher magazines Capezio A.C.E. Award and its $15,000 production budget to create a show in New York. In weathered boots and dresses that could have crossed the plains in a covered wagon, six tap dancers not only drill it down with their feet, they use their full bodies to convey loss and grief, wrote Dance Magazine. Gone is a moody work that blends the drama of modern dance with the heart-pumping thrill of rhythm tap. The magazine named her among the 25 to Watch for 2013. An expanded version, Gone: A Sound and Theater Project, debuted at New Yorks Ailey Citigroup Theater on August 5, 2013, with a new score by Nikos Syropoulos. The Melinda Sullivan Dance Project has also been featured at the Pasadena Dance Festival, Dance For Life Palm Springs, and most recently at the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater. Ms. Sullivan is on faculty at Trudi Zipper Dance Institute at The Colburn School, and travels the US with New York City Dance Alliance (NYCDA). Melinda Sullivan
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