Dance training: The Original Hoofers, Jimmy Slyde, The University of The Street

Performance/Choreographic/Directorial Experience: Linking her performances with social justice issues such as domestic violence and immigration, her uncommon career has taken her on a worldwide journey. Butterfly's achievements (www.roxanebutterfly.com) have been internationally acclaimed by both the music and dance critics: Busking in New York City, premiering her North African tap-fusion in Central Park, performing in Las Vegas (New York New York Hotel), the Theatre de Suresnes in France, the Teatro Zinzani spiegel-tent show in Seattle, in Moroccan night-clubs and at various international jazz festivals, helping launch the London-Tap-Jam at the famed jazz club Ronnie Scott, to teaching in schools for the handicapped in France and joining campaigns against female circumcision in Guinea and Peace concerts in Israel. She currently lives in New York and Barcelona and is a part of Xumo Nounjio's artists collective Central Art Process (www.centralartprocess.com) based in Barcelona, and is the Founder and Artistic Director of Roxane Butterfly's Worldbeats (formerly Beauteez'n The Beat), a touring company of world-music and dance artists which operates with both a New York- and Barcelona-based cast . Recently she was seen dancing on the facade of the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in David Michalek's gigantic video-installation "Slow-Dancing". While in Spain, she is experimenting within the new flamenco-jazz arena, while finishing the writing of her first book. She debuted as a director at the age of 25 at the Theatre de Suresnes in Paris where she first attempted to bridge European and American tap by inviting tapsters Savion Glover, Tamango and vaudevillian Rod Ferrone to participate in Suresnes-Cité Danse 1996. In 2004, she served as stage-director for the American Dance Festival's (Durham, NC) "Festival of The Feet", an event gathering the dance companies of flamenca Carlotta Santana and kathak master Chitresh Daas. She was selected as one of the '25 Best' by Dance Magazine (2002) and her company's repeated appearances at Symphony Space garnered her a place on the five most innovative dance artists in Back Stage. Radio/TV/Film: Broadcasts on NPR, WBAI, WKCR, WBGO (USA), Radio France International, Radio Bleue , Radio Canada (Arab, Spanish, English and French sections), ICAT (Spain); Films: Touch The Sound (by Thomas Riedelsheimer, 2002), Dennis Charles/ An Interrupted Conversation (by Veronique Doumbé, 2000), Fascinating Rhythm (by Yann Leese for British Broadcast Television 2000). She recently completed her first screenplay for the publicity-clip of the Barcelona African Film Festival 2009. In 2007, she wrote and directed a documentary, Hoofalogies/The Spirit Of Jimmy Slyde, based on unique archival footage of the hoofing scene in New York City in the 1990s (Cinéma Etoile de Mortagne au Perche/ festival des Danses Jazz, Janana Rhythm Festival (Israél), sala Nou Ivanoff/ Barcelona, Penn Academy/ Philadelphia). She also directed A Day To Go Play, a short documentary dealing with the burning issues of female genital mutilation rituals in West Africa (2004). Casting director, choreographer, dancer for HSBC TV commercial (Istanbul 2007).

Teaching Experience: Butterfly has taught workshops, given seminars and acted as a guest-speaker around the world at numerous festivals and conventions including the American Dance Festival (Durham, NC), Dance USA, and Arts Presenters (APAP) conferences, University of Virginia, New York University, New York Public Library, ImpulzTanz (Vienna, Austria), the French Embassy of Colombo (Sri-Lanka), The Institut of African Studies in Barcelona, and many more... In 2009, she created a tap-course at the Conservatoire of Rabat (Morocco) Trilingual, Roxane also served as interpretor for jazz luminaries Max Roach and Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones) at the Cité de la Musique (Paris), and does voice-over and doublages for Central Art Process (Barcelona). Her writings on tap have been published in JazzHot, Danser (in French), ON TAP the official bulletin of the International Tap Association (I.T.A) and in The Nation. She is a Guest Teacher at Steps on Broadway.

Awards: Fund For Creative Community (2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010); New York Foundation For The Arts Fellow (2002, 2008); USArts International (Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, 2004, 2007); Meet The Composer (2007); John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2006); Manhattan Creative Arts Funds (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010); Bessie Award For Outstanding Creative Achievement (1999); Harkness Dance Space Grant recipient (2006)