WHEN & where?

Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd of September 2024.
In Plymouth, using the amazing facilities of Oxford House Creative Hub & Cafe Momus in Stonehouse. 

This weekend immersion will take you through the following themes…

tap, tapas & wine at cafe momus

SATURDAY TAP DANCING INTENSIVE + body percussion

SATURDAY TAP NIGHT PARTY

sunday TAp improv

who?

The classes will be delivered by Annalisa Mattioli a tap dancer, teacher and choreographer from Italy.
In 2015, she won a scholarship to attend the PROFESSIONAL TAP TRAINING PROGRAM at the ESCOLA LUTHIER DANSA in Barcelona, Spain, directed by the international dancer Guillem Alonso, her teacher and mentor.
She performed in the tap show “FRAGMENTS RELOADED” at the SAT theater in Barcelona with SHARON LAVI TAP COMPANY and she was member of BARCELONA RHYTHM TAP COMPANY. She performed as a tap dancer in the videoclip’s song “You and I” by Barns Courtney and she took part of the jazz nights in Barcelona with the live band “TIN PAN CLAN”. She also performed improvising with live jazz musician in different events and festivals arond Europe like Sun Tap Festival in Seville (Spain) where in 2018 she was noticed and invited by SARAH REICH to join her “TAP MUSIC PROJECT” in Los Angeles.
Annalisa has more than 10 years of experience as a teacher and a choreographer. After travelling in the United States, she became a Faculty Member of Escola LUTHIER Dansa and of Musical Theater Academy AULES, both based in Barcelona, where she taught more than 150 students across 4 years in Tap and Modern-jazz. She received many awards and credits as a choreographer in dance competitions in Italy, Spain, Switzerland (Swiss tap championship) and Germany (Ido World Tap Championship).
In recent years she has been invited as a guest teacher and dancer in several festivals such as Stockholm Tap Festival (Sweden), Florence Tap Festival (Italy) and Castellon Tap Festival (Spain).
Since 2018 she has performed as a soloist tap artist in SWING MACHINE ORCHESTRA concert’s in Madrid with whom she also toured throughout Spain.
Last year she was called to be a Judge of the SWISS TAP CHAMPIONSHIP 2023 representing Italy in Winterthur (Switzerland) and presently she is working to spread and show the art of Tap dance in Italy and dancing in new projects in Italy and Spain.