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“A brilliant tap artist”
The Patch
“Feet like feathers with steel bones.”
Carl Schlessinger
“A rosy bubble that floats off the stage and envelops the crowd, allowing grateful viewers to forget where they are.”
Robert Johnson, dance critic, on Soul Walk
“A springboard for locating tap dance within a concert dance context... serving to truly bring the house down.”
Dance Metro DC, on VIBE
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- The New York Times
- Dance Magazine
- Dance Spirit
- Dance Studio Life
- Playbill
- Broadway World
- Dance Teacher Magazine
- The Star-Ledger
- Dance Informa
- Inside New York City Dance
- New Jersey Stage
- Inside Essex
- Culturebot
- NJArts.net
- The Patch
- Bernardsville News
- Female Run
- The Dance Enthusiast
Also featured on TEDxRutgers, NBC’s 30 Rock and The Colbert Report.
Bios
Short Bio
Hillary-Marie is an interdisciplinary American tap dance artist, a visual music maker who tells vivid stories through the universal languages of music and dance.
Her unique multi-modal voice blends foot, body, and vocal percussion with compelling storytelling to craft immersive rhythmic experiences that transcend traditional boundaries of performance art.
A recipient of multiple Fellowships and Awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, Hillary-Marie is the creator and performer of In The Pocket, her award-winning one-woman show, developed at NJPAC and now touring. Internationally acclaimed as a soloist and collaborator, she has performed alongside music greats like Take 6, Big Bad VooDoo Daddy, and Wycliffe Gordon.
As the founder of iTapOnline.com, she is widely regarded as a teacher of teachers, training hundreds of students and educators annually in The 5 Fundamentals of Tap Dance and The Fundamental Fusion Approach.
Long Bio
Hillary-Marie is an interdisciplinary American tap dance artist, a visual music maker who tells vivid stories through the universal languages of music and dance. Her unique multi-modal voice blends foot, body, and vocal percussion with compelling storytelling to craft immersive rhythmic experiences that transcend traditional boundaries of performance art. Her dancing has been described as having “feet like feathers with steel bones,” a testament to her combination of strength and grace.
She has captivated audiences as both an internationally acclaimed soloist and a sought-after collaborator, sharing the stage with music greats including Grammy Award-winning a cappella group Take 6, Grammy-nominated group Big Bad VooDoo Daddy, trombone legend Wycliffe Gordon, Luther Vandross' music director Nat Adderley Jr., and A Chorus Line composer Marvin Hamlisch. Her collaborations also span vocalists Emily Braden and Nancy Harmes, bassist Jennifer Vincent, singer-songwriter Ami Madeleine, pianists Mark G. Meadows and Willerm Delisfort, percussionist Vincent Pierce Smith, and beatboxer Mark Martin.
Her work has been recognized with multiple Fellowships and Awards from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, in Choreography (2017 award recipient, 2023 funded finalist) and Interdisciplinary Arts (2024 award recipient). From 2019 to 2022, she held a fellowship at NJPAC, where she developed her award-winning and touring one-woman show, In The Pocket.
Beyond the stage, Hillary-Marie is the founder and creator of iTapOnline.com, the go-to resource for tap dancers and teachers worldwide, and is widely regarded as a teacher of teachers. Mentored by and an assistant to Vaudeville legend Dr. Harold “Stumpy” Cromer from 2007 until his passing in 2013, she is committed to preserving the oral tradition of tap dance, ensuring its vibrancy for future generations. Her iTap Teacher Certificate Program and iTapOnline Studio train hundreds of educators annually in her signature methodology, The 5 Fundamentals of Tap Dance and The Fundamental Fusion Approach.