| TONY WAAG
Tony Waag is currently the Artistic/Executive Director of the American Tap Dance Foundation and the Producer
and Director of Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival
which features an extensive training program for adults, numerous
premiere performances, city wide events, tap jams and student
showcases, panel discussions, film screenings, annual tap
dance awards, and innovative children and teen programs.
In 1986 he founded the American
Tap Dance Foundation (formerly known as the American
Tap Dance Orchestra) with Brenda Bufalino
and the late Charles "Honi" Coles.
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As the Executive Director for the ATDO,
he has managed the company for 20 years, in charge of all administration,
booking, promotion, marketing and fundraising. As a featured
artist with the company, he also performed in hundreds of
ATDO concert productions including premiere performances at
the Apollo Theater, the Joyce Theater, the Kennedy Center
for the Performing Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, the legendary
Cotton Club, Avery Fisher Hall, the Walter Reade Theater,
LaMama E.T.C., Town Hall, the Sylvia and Danny Kaye Theater,
Symphony Space, the United Nations, the Atlanta Arts Festival,
the Utah Arts Festival, the Colorado Dance Festival the Lincoln
Center "Out-of-Doors" Festival, and in various national film
and television specials. International appearances include
USIA tours of Turkey, Poland, Cyprus, Latvia and Estonia,
the Bermuda Arts Festival, tours of Germany and Italy with
Brenda Bufalino, the International Edinburgh Fringe Festival
in Scotland, Encontro 99 in Rio de Janiero, the Campinas Tap Festival, Brazil, the 9th Annual Nit de Claque Festival in Spain, the Vancouver International Tap Festival, and other solo appearances in Paris, Singapore, and Moscow.
From 1989-1995, he co-created and operated,
with Ms. Bufalino, Woodpeckers Tap Dance Center
which became a model for numerous tap organizations and tap
studios worldwide creating, producing, and presenting various
educational programs for adults and children year-round, as
well as annual winter tap intensives with master classes,
courses and workshops taught by leading International artists
and master tap dancers.
Mr. Waag has received numerous grants towards
the presentation and preservation of tap dance as a unique
American art form, and in 2002, he created the first International
Tap Dance Hall of Fame honoring the contributions of legendary
tap dancers by preserving their legacies for future generations
to enjoy. Currently, he is developing a feature film entitled
Footage, a musical fantasy based on his 25 years in the field
of tap dance!
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