Upcoming Tap Events
This list shares TDC events AND outside events in and around NYC.
To participate in TDC in studio events & open houses, please RSVP to info@tapdancecentral.org and reach out to us directly if you have questions via email or call 646-921-9705.
For more info on each gig, click the link provided, or contact the artist for more info.
TDC Events
Adult Program Open House!
Monday March 31st, 6:15 - 7:15pm
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Tap Dance Central​​​​
154 Christopher St #2B
New York, NY 10014
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Bring a friend to come take a beginner tap class for free! All are welcome!
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RSVP by emailing info@tapdancecentral.org
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Tap Dance Central In Concert
Saturday June 7th, 7pm
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Peter Jay Sharp Theater
Symphony Space
Upper Level, 2537 Broadway
New York, NY 10025
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Come see our Youth Program students and select Adult Program classes perform a culmination of what they've been working on all year!
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Outside Events
Terraza 7 Tap Jam
Hosted by Max Pollak
One Sunday each month
March 16th
7:30pm
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Terraza 7
40-19 Gleane St
Elmhurst, NY 11373
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Join Max Pollak's tap jam, where tap dancers and tap students, and musicians of all kinds are invited to join the rhythm!Bring your tap shoes or instruments!
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$15 cover to help keep Terraza open!
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Smalls Tap Jam
Hosted by Michela Marino Lerman
First Tuesday of every month
April 1st, May 6th, June 3rd
10:30pm and 12am
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Smalls Jazz Club
183 W 10th St
New York, NY 10014
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Open Jam Session following the 12am set.
All musicians welcome! No cover charge.
Michela Marino Lerman: Tap Dancer
Mathis Picard: Piano
Stanley Ruvinov: Bass
Ahmad Johnson: Drums
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Brenda Bufalino
Group Performance
Sunday April 27th​
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The Guggenheim
1071 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128
(at 88th Street)
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Tap dance icon, choreographer, poet, and drummer Brenda Bufalino closes the inaugural Uptown Rhythm Dance Festival. With stories and work spanning a lifetime, Bufalino starts with the film The White Buffalo Suite, which her company the American Tap Dance Orchestra premiered in 1990.
Her cast of collaborators includes dancers Alice Baum, Tamii Sakurai, and Dylan Szuch as well as accordion player and pianist Ben Rosenbaum and bass player Joe Fonda.
TapEx 2025
Showcase
Monday May 19th at 7 pm​
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Theater for the New City,
155 First Avenue (at E. 10th St.)
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FLO-BERT is dedicated to preserving, supporting, showcasing and educating the public about the great American Art Form, Tap Dance. Annually, we present "TapEx", a production which features today's great tap dancers and their choreography / improvography, innovation, and honors those who have contributed to the life, history, preservation and expansion of Tap Dance and the Jazz Arts. This year "TapEx 2025", will present our 35th Anniversary show, live on Monday, May 19, 2025 7pm at The Theater for the New City, at 10th St and First Avenue, Manhattan. Announcing our 2025 Honorees Tap Dancer, Choreographer, MacArthur Grant Recipients Michelle Dorrance and Jared Grimes.
Performers to be announced.
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Feel Free to donate via the Flo-Bert, Ltd project page on the New York Foundation For the arts website.
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Ayodele Casel
Solo Performance
Wednesday May 28th - Sunday June 8th​
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The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Avenue
New York, NY 10011
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Rooted in expressions of selfhood, culture, and legacy, Ayodele Casel pushes tap forward while holding reverence for her predecessors and the African American roots of the form. Directed by long-time collaborator Torya Beard, this new work examines the transformative ties between tap dance and the dynamism of 90s Hip-Hop music.