2025 Residencies for RIFF!!!

RIFF Dallas 2025 Residencies

We are excited to offer 3 unique residencies this year at RIFF Dallas 2025!

• Anthony Morigerato Live Band Experience - Learn a piece from Emmy nominated Anthony Morigerato while working with a live band. Be a part of Anthony’s unique process of creating a stage piece with other dancers from across the globe. This piece will perform at the TAPN2TAP Concert, Sunday, January 19, 2025 at the Eisemann Center. **Dancers will be required some choreography by video prior to attending the first rehearsal at the festival.

• Charles Renato Live Band Experience - Charles will premiere his first RIFF Dallas residency work on our concert stage at the TAPN2TAP Concert, Sunday, January 19, 2025 at the Eisemann Center. Experience the excitement of Charles Renato and his amazing rhythms, along with his creative point of view on the art of tap dance.

• Maddie Murphy Youth Residency - Created specifically for high level tap dancers aged 10-13, this piece will perform at the TAPN2TAP Concert, Sunday, January 19, 2025 at the Eisemann Center. Experience a professional work environment where you can practice your performance skills while bonding with other dancers and the choreographer. Three days packed with learning, growing, and performing!

Residencies are opportunities for students to work closely with leading industry professionals and to experience being a part of the choreographic process of each artist.

APPLICATION PROCESS:

• Submit an online application using the “APPLY FOR RESIDENCY” button.

• Send an email to riffdallastap@gmail.com with a video demonstrating level and ability.

• Register for a trac at RIFF Dallas 2025. Only applicants that have registered for RIFF will be considered for placement.

• Check your email for information on acceptance. Space is limited for each residency.

***NEW*** ANTHONY MORIGERATO RESIDENCY

About Anthony…

Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, content creator, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer. Anthony is the executive producer and artistic director for AM Dance Productions. AM Dance Productions, short films include The Text (2015), The Subtext (2018), and the award winning When Snow Falls (2020). AM Dance Productions live theatrical shows include AM Dance Project (2006-2008), Matt and Anthony (2009), flood (in the dark corner) (2017), flood (redux) (2020), and Alternate Spaces (2021). In 2014, Anthony founded and is currently the co-director and managing partner of Operation: Tap, an online forum that is dedicated to immersing tap dancing into the public’s consciousness. In 2019, Anthony created CODA, Break The Floor’s online dance competition scoring system that provides dancers with genre specific score sheets, homework video content to improve their performance, and data analytics. Anthony worked as a tap dance teacher, performer, and adjudicator for NUVO Dance Convention from 2010-2020. As a performer, Anthony was a soloist and member of Michael Minery’s Tapaholics (2002-2012), a soloist and associate choreographer for Stacey Tookey’s Still Motion, and a soloist for various tap dance festivals, benefits, industrials, seminars, and performances since 1999. He has appeared as a choreographer and/or a performer on television shows including The Tony Danza Show (2005), America’s Got Talent (2009), The Arsenio Hall Show (2013), So You Think You Can Dance (2013-2018- Emmy Nomination 2016). Anthony holds the world record for “most tap sounds in one minute” having made 1,163 sounds. Anthony is an accomplished dancer in multiple disciplines, having trained at Marymount Manhattan College, where he performed the works of Robert Battle, Elizabeth Higgins, Jiri Kylian, David Parsons, Katie Langan and William Soleu. He has recently done choreographic residencies at Marymount Manhattan College (2014, 2016, and 2019), Pace University (2019), and is an artist in residence at the American Tap Dance Foundation (2020). Most recently Anthony performed and had choreography featured in Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic (2021), presented by the Joyce Theater in NYC.

Anthony’s Live Band Experience will begin on Friday morning, January 17, 2025 and his piece will perform in the TAPN2TAP Concert on Sunday, January 19, 2025

Rehearsal times:

Friday, January 17, 2025 9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-4:30pm

Saturday, January 18, 2025 8:00am-8:45am

Sunday, January 19, 2025 Tech Rehearsal TBD; Concert 7PM

***NEW*** CHARLES RENATO RESIDENCY

About Charles…

Charles Renato was born and raised in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At age of 14 he began teaching tap dance and traveling all over the country.

Charles moved to the United States in 2014 and since then he has been working all over the world teaching in festivals and workshops. He taught and performed in over 15 countries in Europe, North, Central and South America. He also performed with Apt 33 directed by Chloe Arnold, Dorrance Dance directed by Michelle Dorrance and Caleb Teicher and Co. directed by Caleb Teicher. Currently he is part of DANCE ONE, the largest holding company of dance brands in the world, as part of 24 Seven Dance convention judging and teaching TAP. Since 2015, Charles is the Artistic Director of Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble and a faculty member of Metropolitan School of the Arts. He is also a former faculty member at Broadway Dance Center and Steps On Broadway.

Charles’ Live Band Experience will begin on Friday morning, January 17, 2025 and his piece will perform in the TAPN2TAP Concert on Sunday, January 19, 2025

Rehearsal times:

Friday, January 17, 2025 9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-4:30pm

Saturday, January 18, 2025 8:00am-8:45am

Sunday, January 19, 2025 Tech Rehearsal TBD; Concert 7PM

About Maddie…

Maddie Murphy is a NYC based performer, teacher and choreographer originally from Dallas, Texas. She graduated from Booker T Washington High School of Performing and Visual Arts, and was named a YoungArts finalist. In 2021 Maddie achieved her BFA in Commercial Dance from Pace University training in multiple styles of dance, and is an alumni of the 2019 Jacob’s Pillow tap program. Some of her credits include: The Nutcracker Suite, Untitled Waveforms, Praise: The Inevitable Fruit of Gratitude with Dorrance Dance, understudy for What is This Thing Called Love directed by Derick K. Grant, Lucid Dream and Ser Humano choreographed by Max Pollak, and Dance Lab New York. Maddie is also on faculty at the tap dance festival, RIFF Dallas, and the tap summer workshop, Woodshed Experience.

Maddie’s Youth Residency is designed for dancers 10-13 years old. We are excited to premier this work at our TAPN2TAP Concert!

Rehearsals will begin on Friday morning, January 17, 2025 and this piece will perform in the TAPN2TAP Concert on Sunday, January 19th, 2025

Rehearsal times:

Friday, January 17, 2025 9:00am-12:00pm & 1:00pm-4:00pm

Saturday, January 18, 2025 8:00am-8:45am

Sunday, January 19, 2025 - Tech Rehearsal time TBA; Concert 7:00pm

About Derick…

Derick K. Grant is a native of Boston, MA and an award-winning tap performer and choreographer. He began his training at the Roxbury Center for the Performing Arts and studied “hoofin” style from master tap dancer, Dianne Walker. He went on to train at Universal Dance Design Studio with Paul Kennedy and spent three years with the Jazz Tap Ensemble touring the world. He was given the Princess Grace Award for Upcoming Young Artist and The Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Featured Actor for his role in Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk. Recently returning from his three-month tour of A Night Out: Tap!, Grant’s newest choreography and performance with Jazz Tap Ensemble, held at the Joyce Theater, has been praised by the The New York Times stating, “Mr. Grant let gusts of rhythm propel him with remarkable velocity!”

ALREADY ACCEPTED?

See the info below and register if you have received your acceptance letter.