Margaret Morrison

Margaret Morrison is a rhythm tap artist, dance historian, teacher, and writer. She received the Flo-Bert Life Achievement Award and the ATDF Hoofer Award for her contributions to tap dance. Her dance and theater productions, fiction, and scholarship explore tap at the intersections of gender, race, history, and queer identity. Margaret has performed across the globe and began her career in the 1980s with the American Tap Dance Orchestra, directed by Brenda Bufalino. A featured soloist with Tap City on Tour and other productions, critics hailed her, "feather-footed and musically astute" and a "consummate artist who breaks the mold.” Margaret has choreographed for ensembles and film, she wrote, starred, and tap danced in her play Home in Her Heart, and is currently working on a novel about 1930s jazzwoman. Her tap scholarship has been published in Dance Research Journal, Los Angeles Review of Books, and her research on tap dancer, Juanita Pitts, is included in the Oxford Handbook of Black Dance Studies, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz. Margaret mentors tap dancers in the art of choreography, educators in rhythm tap instruction, and serves on PhD committees for graduate tap researchers. She is a popular master teacher of tap technique, classic and contemporary tap repertory, improvisation, dance composition, and tap history. She holds an MFA from American Dance Festival/Hollins University, taught at Barnard College and New York University, and served as Education Advisor for the American Tap Dance Foundation, where she created and co-directed the Tap Teacher Training Program. MargaretMorrison.com.