The Gregory Hines Youth Scholarship Fund

In its commitment to diversity the ATDF continues to administer the Gregory Hines Youth Scholarship Fund for serious tap students ages 3 – 19. Scholarships are awarded to students based on both financial need and artistic merit. The goal of the program is not only to offer training and performance opportunities to ‘under-served’ youth, but also to encourage pre-professional level students to continue with their studies with on stage performing experience. The program brings together students from different socio-economic and racial backgrounds who wish to study in one of the following ATDF Programs: 

Year-Round Youth Classes (ages 3 – 19) 
Intensives & Workshops (ages 13 – 19) 
Tap City Youth Ensemble (ages 10 – 19) 
Tap City, the NYC Tap Festival (ages 6 – 19)

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General Operations

Your contributions: 

• keep our class prices affordable and our education programs accessible at the American Tap Dance Center. 

• create a professional, safe and fun environment with hard wood floors.

• support education programs offering students a chance to become immersed in tap culture while providing our faculty with year-round teaching opportunities, income, rehearsal/work space and venues to perform in.

• support our concert performances that celebrate the diversity of tap, presenting masters, contemporary artists and up-and-coming hoofers giving our audiences a true picture of the art form’s multi-faceted legacy. 

• provide valuable rehearsal space for our gifted Artists in Residence allowing them to create new choreography that is presented throughout the year. 

• support pivotal programs such as Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival providing an annual forum for an international community of dancers, teachers, artists, historians and fans. 

• help us to document, preserve and archive our own history for future generations to study and utilize.

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