Germaine Salsberg is one of the most popular and influential tap dance teachers in New York today. For over 20 years she has been on the faculty of Broadway Dance Center, where she taught a complete tap program of basic to intermediate levels. Her students include cast members and choreographers from Broadway & Off-Broadway shows, National tours, the Rockettes, tap companies, as well as people who "just love to tap". In addition she teaches tap for Musical Theatre Majors at New York University's Steinhardt School of Education and the Musical Theater program at Pace University where she teaches technique to her students as well as giving them a historical perspective of tap and its masters. She has previously taught for New York University's Cap 21, Steps on Broadway, and Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has taught and participated in the Tap City Festival in New York since it started in 2001. One of her goals is to incorporate the values of rhythm tap into the theatrical tap milieu and has completed her 2nd year of teaching and choreographing at the Broadway Dance Theatre Workshop in Santa Fe, NM.
As assistant to Tony Award Winner Danny Daniels, she helped train the boys for the Broadway and National tours of Tap Dance Kid. Besides her own concert work, Germaine has used her unique style in creating original choreography in productions of George M!, Anything Goes, as well as five successful productions for Muhlenberg Summer Theater including 42nd Street, Anything Goes, Crazy For You, George M! and Dames At Sea. In 2000 Germaine performed in Edmonton's Fringe Festival with an hour long tap show called Toe Jamm, which delighted audiences for the run of the Festival, and was thrilled to perform in the Tap City Festival in New York City.
Prior to teaching, Germaine began her career as an actress, appearing on radio and television in her native Canada. She became a founding member and soloist with the Toronto Dance Theatre and performed and toured with that company for 7 years appearing in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. In New York she and her husband co-direct "A & G Dance". They have produced concerts at the Riverside Dance festival, DTW's Bessie Schoenberg Theater, New York University, and for various school programs including Lincoln Center's Meet-the-Artist and Hospital Audiences. They have performed together in Canada and Europe. Most recently they were part of the Soho Arts Festival in New York City, and created and performed in a very successful show entitled Not Fade Away: dancing Over 40 which was premiered in New York in 1996, and performed in Pennsylvania in July 1997 and 1998. They completed a new performance series of the Not Fade Away Project which was presented at the Merce Cunningham Studio Theater in November 1998 to sold out houses.
"Germaine is a wonderful teacher. She is filled with imagination and great fun to work with. I enjoy every minute I spend with her in a dance studio."...Liza Minnelli
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