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Dame Michele Ribble
Dame Michele Ribble, award-winning choreographer, master instructor, producer, dancer, and coach, has spent a lifetime working in classical ballet, tap, musical theater, and jazz. She has choreographed for both stage and screen, including several Off Broadway shows. She was assistant choreographer for the film Beetlejuice and has also choreographed numerous gag acts for the Garden Brothers, Right Bros., and Bentley Bros. Circuses. Other credits include work for Jacob’s Pillow, HBO, Miramax, Circuit Productions, Hanna-Barbera, and MTV.
As lead dancer and choreographer for the Tommy Sands Revue, Ribble has performed nationally. She has also danced as a member of the NYC Company and Ronn Forella and the Second Century Dancers. She is a featured soloist at Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival, and is known as dance partner to Charles Goddertz and Harold Cromer.
Ribble is a faculty member of the American Tap Dance Foundation, a guest instructor at Steps on Broadway, director of youth programs for the New York City Tap Festival, a columnist for the International Tap Association Newsletter, director of the Metro-Gnomes Youth Tap Ensemble, director of the Rhinebeck Dance Centre, and founder of the Roya Curie Dance Scholarship Foundation.
She was most recently a featured tap dance soloist at the Joyce and Duke on 42nd Street theaters in Manhattan; a master instructor at the Community School of the Arts in Marion, Indiana, where she taught the Bill Bojangles Robinson Stair Dance; dance educator for the summer staff at Kaatsbaan International Dance Center; and instructor and choreographer for Kaatsbann’s Extreme Ballet Pre-professional Intensive Summer Program.
Ribble is also an adjudicator and adjunct professor of dance at SUNY New Paltz College and a member of the National Association of Dance and Affiliated Arts. |
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