Michelle Dorrance

2018 Convocation: A piece created for the finale of convocation during a multi-day intensive with first-year Dance students, featuring Creative Associates Lil Buck, Caroline Shaw, Bill Irwin, and Dorrance View Video

2019 Gala: Choreographer for the finale piece Here Is Our Space created with Creative Associate Caroline Shaw and performed alongside fellow Creative Associates, faculty member Areta Zhulla, and Juilliard music and dance students View Video | View Program

Guest Artist at Dance Division History Seminars: An examination of the global history of tap with second-year Dance students (in person in Spring 2019; on Zoom in Spring 2020)

Michelle Dorrance is a New York City-based artist. Mentored by Gene Medler (North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble), she studied under many of the last master hoofers. Career highlights include STOMP, Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap!, Jason Samuels Smith’s Charlie’s Angels/Chasing the Bird, Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer, Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, and playing bass for Darwin Deez. Company work includes Savion Glover’s Ti Dii, Manhattan Tap, Barbara Duffy & Company, JazzTap Ensemble, and Rumba Tap. Solo work ranges from The Late Show With Stephen Colbert to commissions for the Martha Graham Dance Company and American Ballet Theatre. A 2018 Doris Duke Artist, 2017 Ford Foundation Art of Change Fellow, and 2015 MacArthur Fellow, Dorrance has been acknowledged and supported by United States Artists, the Joyce Theater, New York City Center, the Alpert Awards, Jacob’s Pillow, Princess Grace Foundation, the Field, American Tap Dance Foundation, and the Bessie Awards. Dorrance holds a BA from New York University and is a Capezio Athlete.