Jason Janas,
Principal Dancer

Instructs: Tap

 

In his fifth year with Tapestry, Jason originally hails from the northern New Jersey area, and more recently from Charlotte, NC.

His dance education is highlighted with training and performing with Tapestry Dance Company and by his tenure as a charter member of the New Jersey Tap Ensemble, where Jason began his rhythm tap career under the direction of Ms. Deborah Mitchell.

His interaction with other with tap dancers such as Acia Gray, Dianne Walker, Brenda Bufalino, Nicholas Young, Sarah Petronio, Mike Minery, Karen Calloway Williams, Paris Mann of the NJTE, and with Ted Levy, influenced and ignited his career. Jason continues to teach and choreograph from coast-to-coast while he continues to grow as a multiform rhythm tap dancer.

Jason is also the Artistic Director of the Hoofin’ Ground Tap Festival in Charlotte, NC and recently performed in Derick Grant’s Chicago production of Imagine Tap.