Devin Johnson

Devin has over sixteen years of tap experience, primarily studying with Tina Fretto Baird, a protege of Brenda Bufalino. He is classically trained and also has deep roots in rhythm tap. Over the years Devin has honed his craft with tap notables including Prince Spencer, Brenda Bufalino, Michelle Dorrance, Andrew Nemr, Mike Minery, Cassie Abate, and Jeff Shade.

 

Devin Has been a soloist or featured performer at the D.U.M.B.O Dance Festival, The Duke Theatre, The National Museum of Dance, and Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, NY. He has performed excerpts from Morton Gould's Tap Dance Concerto with the Danbury Symphony in Danbury, CT, and Regional theatre credits for productions of 42nd Street, On Your Toes, and Drowsy Chaperone.

 

About lessons...

 

Devin's style of teaching is "old school." He uses many exercises created by Brenda Bufalino, concentrating on 8th notes and 16th notes. Each exercise is designed to "clean up" sounds by starting slowly and gradually picking up speed. Tap dancing is a form of percussion, and tap shoes are instruments, so musicality is a large part of the class. A portion of each class focuses on the sometimes "scary" subject of improv using exercises that make it fun! Improvisation is a wonderful skill to have in your bag of tricks, and is made easier when you have a larger tap vocabulary to draw from.

 

 

Please contact Devin at devinjohnsonvt@gmail.com to RSVP for the group class or for information on private lessons starting at $60 for one hour!

 

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