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Adam Metzger, a native of New York City, is a professional dancer, singer, actor, and musician. His intense study of tap dance includes a wide range of teachers and styles: from rhythm to Broadway. By blending these various styles, Adam has created a tap style with a diversity and richness that incorporates these varied techniques both individually and in combination to see how they contrast and complement each other.

The focus of Adam's class is a mixture of movement and musicality. Tap, as a dance form, requires the entire body to create expression; and at the same time, the feet, as musical instruments, engage both the physical and auditory senses. The musicality of this dance form adds a deeper and intense level of experience for the dancers and audience alike. Therefore, the student's understanding of rhythm and music grows and is tantamount in this learning process. The class evolves into an adventure in movement, music, rhythm and the live symbiosis created by the students; a journey of many senses.

As an in-demand dancer, actor, singer, and choreographer in NYC, Adam has performed on Broadway, at Symphony Space, The Apollo Theater, Gracie Mansion, New York 1, Channel 7 News, Don't Tell Mama's and Tap City the Main Event: The New York Tap Festival. He has also choreographed for Lincoln Center, Brooklyn College, and Dancers Responding to Aids (DRA). He is a member of the esteemed faculty of Steps on Broadway and is a guest teacher at Peridance Center. Adam is a singer and choreographer for the new popular music group AJR (AJRBrothers.com). He is also the director and choreographer of S.L.U.R.P. a new rhythm dance project in NYC.

Adam has done extensive research testing connections between learning tap dance as a musical instrument and increases in academic performance. Using a tap shoe grant from Capezio, he conducted a study to explore the connections between music and test results in school. This study had very successful results and Adam hopes to implement tap dance programs in schools around the country.

Contact: tappinguy@gmail.com

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