The Jimmy Slyde Institute Summer Tap Intensives hosted by underground New York tap dance icon Roxane Butterfly,  have moved to Paris. This year’s Tap Intensive will be held July 21st to 24th  at Juste Debout School. These unique tap dance intensives offer a full panoramic on technique, choregraphy, composition, musicality, movement and contemporary tap dance history. They also come along with Jam sessions involving live-music. Tap Talks. Films. Coaching.

This workshop is geared towards dancers who wish to perfect their musicality, leadership skills on a live-music band stand, interprative qualities, pedagogic tools, movement and rhythm flow. Classes are taught in the spirits of the great jazz practionners known as the Original Hoofers but also highlight more contemporary areas and tendancies in the field. The 4 days workshop will be complemented by a serie of live-music dance events at night. Anyone with  rhythm-tap foundations can attend. Join the fun!

Workshop infos

Class Schedule :
July 21st   > 1:30- 3:30pm
July 22nd > 1:30- 3:30pm
July 23d   > 5:00-8:30pm
July 24th  > 1:00- 4:00pm

Events TBA / More info coming soon

Early Bird Fees (until June 21st) : 240 €

Address : 3 rue de l’Est, JUSTE DEBOUT SCHOOL. Paris 75020. Métro Jourdain (line 11)

Students Feed-back

”I would follow this teacher on top of any moutain”_Jonas Nemyr
(co-founder of Stockholm Tap Festival, Sweden)

”All I have learned about improvisation, I have learned here’‘_Adele Joel (Londres)

”I don’t know how to start to explain all I learned here”_Riley Skworoda (Canada)

”The best learning experience I had on the european continent”_Ana Pepine (Romania)

”The secret ingredient to sex is love. The secret ingredient to tap is Roxane Butterfly”
_Andrius R. (Lituania)

”These workshops are a sun in my life” _Gry Gaasnes (Norway)

”Exactly what I needed to give a twist to my brain” _Federica Loredan (Italy)

”Thankful that someone is keeping tap where it should be”_Nick Kemeny (Germany)

”Grateful to be able to be in the presence of a tap master” _Olga Smotritkaya (Russia)

”We learn so much here, because we have a good time, the ambiance is great!”
_Emmanuel Washington (California)

”How do I want to come back!” _Karin Rendelman (New York)

”An honor to be able to benefitiate from such an experience” _Maria Orfanou (Greece)