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OPDI-M36: A Survey of Tap Dance Land
June 16, 2025 - July 27, 2025
Based on the book, The Tap Dance Method, by Andrew Nemr, this course will consider six ways to explore the vast world of Tap Dance Land. Participants will explore the dynamic of oral traditions (of which Tap Dance is one), individual connection and expression in Tap Dance Land, traditional vocabulary, frameworks for choreography, and engaging the historical landscape, broadening and focusing their view of the craft. Through the course, you will gain the confidence to take greater ownership of your journey in Tap Dance Land and more confidence in delivering solid information to your students. As the course lays out a vision for Tap Dance Land, it will assist you in building a solid foundation for your own exploration and that of your students.
Book Required: The Tap Dance Method by Andrew Nemr. Pre-Order it here for $49. Publication date May 1st.
How do OPDI Online Courses for dance teachers work?
Our “online” courses are guided by a professor and include a co-hort of students (other dance teachers) with whom you will collaborate. They also include graded assignments, feedback, final grades, and Professional Development Credits (PDCs). Our OPDI online courses require on average between 6 to 8 hours of work each week, but it all depends on your learning style. It could be less or could be more. You can also register as an Audit student and do as much or as little work as you want and will not receive a grade.
We utilize the Sakai online learning platform to deliver the course materials and instruction. Our courses are asynchronous, so there are no required meeting dates or times but we do have a Course Start and Course End date; however, our courses offer at least 2 optional live Q&A-Feedback zoom sessions during the course to enhance opportunities for connection with other students and the professor. Every week of the course there are assignments that you will need to complete with due dates listed in the course outline / syllabus.
Assignments can be done at any time during the week prior to the due date and may include reading, watching videos, posting answers to prompts on a discussion board, writing an essay, reading and responding to other students' posts on the discussion board, taking a cell phone video of yourself completing a particular movement, taking a quiz, or completing a final project. The professor provides written feedback and grades and you get to connect with other students (who are actually dance teachers) via our discussion board and the optional live Q&A feedback sessions.
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Andrew Nemr
<p>Mentored by Gregory Hines, Andrew Nemr is an international artist, teacher and speaker. His work has spanned the music, dance, theatre, and visual arts worlds, exploring art as a vehicle for storytelling and community building. Described as “A masterly tapper” by the New York Times, Andrew has played with Grammy Award winning musicians across multiple genres, and co-founded the Tap Legacy™ Foundation, Inc. (along with Hines).</p>
<p>Andrew has been on faculty at both Broadway Dance Center (NYC) and Steps on Broadway (NYC), an adjunct lecturer at Queens College and Montclair State University, and designed and launched the tap dance program at the McBurney YMCA (NYC). Andrew has toured internationally as an educator in Hong Kong, Taipei, Tokyo, London, Berlin, Barcelona, Stockholm, Costa Rica, Lebanon, Canada and throughout the United States at local dance schools, festivals, conventions, and even a TED Conference!</p>
<p>Andrew’s teaching theory has been influenced by his mentors Henry LeTang, Jimmy Slyde, Savion Glover, Ted Levy, Gregory Hines, and his study of the work of Steve Condos. Other influences have come from time spent with Harold Cromer, Dr. Bunny Briggs, Dr. James “Buster” Brown, LeRoy Myers, Ernest “Brownie” Brown, Henry “Phace” Roberts, Mable Lee, Tina Pratt, and Dianne Walker.</p>
<p>Andrew’s work has been recognized with numerous awards including a TED Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and commissions from Google and Deutsche Grammophon. Andrew is recorded on the Grammy nominated recording <em>Itsbynne Reel</em> by Dave Eggar, the DVD Documentary and companion album <em>Tuesdays at Mona’s</em> by Mona’s Hot Four, and narrates the DanceTime Publications DVD, <em>Tap Dance History: From Vaudeville to Film</em>. He is the topic of the documentary short film <em>Identity: The Andrew Nemr Story</em>, and hosts the weekly podcast, <em>Talking Notes</em>.</p>
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