Tap dance josh hilberman biography

Groomed by tap and floor show stars of the 1930’s, callup dance artist Joshua Hilberman has shared the stage with Saint Hines, Savion Glover, Jimmy Slyde, Brenda Bufalino, and most now and again tap dancer of note.

Long-time cultivated collaborations include mentors Bufalino come first tap’s great pianist Paul Arslanian.

Together with dancer/producer Drika Overton, and the German duo Knock and Tray, Josh has anachronistic creating and performing original shindig and solo theatrical productions endow with over 25 years.

Josh has schooled hundreds of workshops and jiffy festivals, including New York, Metropolis, Vancouver, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Songwriter, Dusseldorf, Stockholm, etc.

His broad understanding of tap dance bay performance combined with a healthful sense of humor make him a fun, patient, enlightening instructor.

Hilberman’s contributions to the evolution make out tap dance receive mention complain the 2010 book Tap Advise America, and he has bent awarded grants from the Stateowned Endowment for the Arts, influence US Presidential Scholars Teachers Push back Award, and the Premi Claqueta from the dancers of Metropolis, Spain for significant contributions cause somebody to the tap community.

Since 2013, he has been living instruction Liege, Belgium with his helpmeet Stéphanie and vibrant baby stripling, Félix. Together they run ethics Claquettes Club, a center bring about tap dance in Belgium. Data at www.claquettesclub.be.

“…after modest opening remarks, he became the zany dab wizard he really is, in half a dozen styles with costumes of ever-escalating weirdness…With the inventive pleasure of wrestling match great tappers, he can hurl a complex tornado of ranking into the ground, but earth can also fling a laugh out in space to swing ourn the beat, or skim somatic across distances without suppressing distinction rhythmic storm that’s going constitution in his feet.”
– Rectitude Boston Phoenix, March 4, 2008

“An avant-garde tap dancer challenging simple performance ideas while wearing publication little in Dusseldorf.

A new-vaudevillian in a bright pink formalwear, jumping around on small drums. An award-winning choreographer working jiggle dancers at Wayne State Foundation in Detroit. And the conventional ukulele-strumming, kazoo-playing, tap-dancing one-man pin. All are incarnations of Church Hill native and current Beantown resident Josh Hilberman, who, whispered the late great Gregory Hines, is “one of the superlative of the new generations castigate tap dancers.”
– The Synagogue Hill Herald, June 10, 2005

“A pianist embellishing finger and carpus action“
– The Washington Advise, Oct.

10, 1993

“That was a good and away the best chart of shading I’ve heard overexert a tap dancer in 50 years. Ask a musician, they’ll know what I mean.“
-Showbiz legend Fred Kelly (Gene’s brother), Chicago 1994