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Jo Scanlan
As a teacher Jo has spent the last 9 years working as a regular and guest tap dance teacher and tap choreographer at various vocational colleges & schools in the UK and Europe. These include Italia Conti, London Studio Centre, The Centre for Performing Arts, Sylvia Young Theatre School, and Bird College. Jo also teachers regularly for the Associated Tap Dancers and was a teacher at their 2008 festival.
In 2006 Jo became co-founder of Tap Attack with Dean Magri and over the last three years have specialised in delivering workshops within the UK and Europe, giving children, adults, professionals and teachers the unique opportunity to experience different teachers and styles.
Along with the tap choreographer of River Dance, Tarik Winston, Jo is the co-artistic director of the Tap Attack Youth Company, who represented England at the 2008 tap world championships in Germany last December. Jo has been a contributing author for On Tap Magazine and Dance Expression Magazine since 2005.
Jo has worked extensively as a tap dance performer and tap dance choreographer through her own dance company and independently. Choreography and performances credits include work for the BBC, ITV, Sky TV, Spun Gold TV, Tap City 2008, Tap Fest 2005, Hilton National and Motorola. Jo has recently returned from America having been invited to teach at and judge the Dance Masters of America in Oklahoma.
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Tap attack is an amalgamation of some of the most innovative tap dancers, teachers and choreographers from all over the world. We bring a variety of styles, techniques and continually push the boundaries in all forms of tap dance. Formed in 2006, Tap Attack offers UK based workshops, master classes, global residencies, bespoke workshops and incorporating our tap performance companies "Xtreme Tap" and "Tap Attack Youth Company", both are high quality innovative and entertaining performance projects for theatrical, corporate and commercial work.
We take our weekend roadshows directly to the tap dancers and with a continually changing faculty deliver varied and different styles each time. Our teaching faculty includes some of the leading dance figures in the tap industry - Graeme Henderson, Tarik Winston, Junior Laniyan, Dean Magri, Jo Scanlan, Nick Yeoman, Jamie Read, and Ian Waller. All have a wealth of experience appearing in shows such as “Tap Dogs”, “42nd Street”, “Riverdance”, Singin in the Rain” as well as teaching at the country’s leading vocational establishments.
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