HILLARY-MARIE

HILLARY-MARIE, tap soloist, performer, choreographer and teacher, has been dancing since the age of four. Rhythm Tap is her specialty and her other dance training includes Jazz, Hip-Hop, Theatre, Ballet, Pointe, Modern, Salsa and Swing. She was an employee of Gotta Dance, her home studio, from June 2003 until August 2007, where she was the first to receive the highest dance award offered, with a syllabus marking of 100% for tap dance in 2003 and 2004. Having established herself as a teacher, she will be teaching at Turning Pointe Dance Center II  and Broadway Dance Theatre as of September of 2008 and can be seen subbing at Worth-Tyrrell Studios and Sharron Miller's Academy of the Performing Arts.

Hillary has been mentored by Karen Callaway Williams since 2004 and is greatly influenced by Dr. Harold "Stumpy" Cromer. As a belter, she receives vocal training from Tamara Cashour and has most recently made her theatrical debut as Val in a regional production of A Chorus Line. She has been a company member of New Jersey Tap Ensemble since April 2006, where she continues to be trained by Deborah Mitchell and Maurice Chestnut. Outside of the ensemble, she has worked with The Russian Moscow Ballet, The American Tap Dance Foundation and members of the Tap City Youth Ensemble, as well as award-winning composers Leonard Oxley and Marvin Hamlisch.

Hillary-Marie has performed in many New Jersey venues, including the Edward Nash Theatre, the NJ State Theatre, Patriot’s Stadium, Cafe Arabica, the Westminster Arts Center, the Union County Performing Arts Center, Wilkins Theatre, South Orange Performing Arts Center and the Morristown Community Theatre as well as New York City's Battery Park, Cobi's Place, Showman's, Peter Norton Symphony Space, Duke Theatre on 42nd Street and Los Angeles' Hamilton Performing Arts Center. Outside of performance, she is currently a writer for Terrence Taps' Tap Dance Blog. As well, Hillary-Marie is a member of the International Tap Association and New Jersey Jazz Society, where she dedicates herself to keeping the art form of tap dance alive.

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