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Jo Scanlan
Jo is a tap dancer, teacher, choreographer and a Guinness World Record™ breaking tap dancer. Jo Scanlan completed her training at The Centre of Performing Arts obtaining Fellowship status with the ISTD. Jo has continued to study tap in America training in residence and privately with Heather Cornell, Dr Henry Le Tang and Dr Bunny Briggs, as well as master classes with Arthur Duncan, Dick Van Dyke, Fayard Nicholas and Jason Samuels Smith.
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Tarik Winston trained at the Professional Children's School in New York and has been a professional performer since the age of seven when he appeared in New York at Radio City Music Hall in "Porgy and Bess".
Tarik went on to be featured in the Tony Award winning revue "Black and Blue" and "High Rollers Social Pleasure Club" on Broadway, he also played the title role in the ''The Tap Dance Kid". Tarik choreographed and appeared in London as the tap dancing star of the internationally renowned production of "Riverdance".
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Dean Magri has been a professional tap dancer and choreographer for twelve years. He has worked extensively in TV and theatre; theatre credits include Hot Shoe Shuffle, Tap Dogs and Tap Dogs Re –Booted.
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James Doubtfire
James Doubtfire trained at North Hens College Hitchin, for 2 years. After leaving, he performed extensively across the U.K and Europe as Dancer/Dance Captain. He then went on to perform in musicals, including U.K tour of 42nd St , the first U.K tour of Me and My Girl with Gary Wilmot, An Evening with Gary Wilmot, An Evening With Sondheim, U.K and Australian tours of Hot Shoe Shuffle, playing the role of "Tip. James has toured with "Tap Dogs" for the past 9 years performing as Dancer/Dance Captain and also acts as Assistant Resident Director for the company.
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Warren Heyes
Warren Heyes trained from an early age in Ballet, Tap and Ballroom social dance. Whilst running the ULU Ballroom Dance and Rock and Roll societies, he met Terry Monaghan in 1983 and decided to commit his future career to establishing a professional standard Lindy Hop dance company. Classes began in 1984 and the Jiving Lindy Hoppers was founded soon after. As a result Warren directly or indirectly taught everyone else dancing the Lindy Hop in the UK today. His choreographic commissions have included pieces for Extemporary Dance Theatre, Phoenix, Dundee Rep and numerous colleges and companies. He choreographed the dance hall scene for the feature film "Chicago Joe and the Showgirl", and has taught 'stars' like Emily Lloyd, Kiefer Sutherland and Greta Scacchi and most of the leading UK swing dancers who have appeared in recent films.
Graeme Henderson
Graeme trained as a dancer, worked mainly as an actor and has now become a choreographer. He was in the orginal David Merrick version of 42nd Street at Drury Lane in 1984 as an ensemble member and later went on to play the leading role of Billy Lawlor opposite Catherine Zeta Jones. Nick Yeoman
Jamie Read
Jamie Read has been teaching tap for over ten years, and has a style mixing American Tap with Irish and Spanish influences. As a performer he has played leading roles in Spirit of The Dance, Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Salad Days, Hard Times The Musical and many others. He has also appeared regularly on film and TV, including being the feet of more than 30 dancers in the movie The Boys From County Clare!Jason Di Mascio
Jason trained at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, where he gained an Honours Diploma and the first of his teaching qualifications. During his final year at college he appeared in "42nd Street" at the Drury Lane before moving on to spend eleven years appearing in the West End and was an original cast member on many shows.
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Ian Waller
Ian Waller left Laine Theatre Arts in 1991. He can now be found in the cast of Spamalot (Palace Theatre). Other Theatre credits include Resident Choreographer on Billy Elliot (Victoria Palace). As dance Captain, Miss Saigon (UK Tour), The Full Monty (UK Tour), My Fair Lady (Drury Lane), West Side Story (Prince Edward and UK Tour), Tommy (Shaftsbury), Peggy Sue Got Married (Shaftsbury), Hot Shoe Shuffle (UK Tour), Eating Raoul (Bridewell), Me and My Girl (UK Tour), Scrooge (Manchester Opera House).Chris Ernest
Chris started dancing at the age of six. He was trained at the Prince Regent Theatre, Hampshire, where he studied all aspects of theatre performance, excelling in tap.
In May 1997 Chris was honoured to join the show Tap Dogs and since then has toured through nearly fourty countries are the world and had performed in various televisio programmes including The Barrymore Show, LWT and in a TV advert for Amena TV.
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