Anthony morigerato biography

Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer.
Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, content creator, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer.
I am a tap dancer, Emmy nominated choreographer, filmmaker, creative director, and educator.

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thatgirl caught up with Tap Dancer, Choreographer Anthony Morigerato for his very first interview about Operation: Tap, an online forum for dancers, artists, students, teachers, choreographers and enthusiasts of tap dancing. Operation: Tap was conceived by Morigerato and launched yesterday via Facebook. The mission of Operation: Tap is not only to raise the funds to support Tap projects created by its contributors, but to create a global community of people committed to making "the world a more Tap conscious place." The Operation: Tap program will include: weekly debates, video sharing, mission deployments and musicality and or technique exercises with online classes soon to follow in 2015.

thatgirl: What was the most difficult aspect of deciding to create Operation: Tap?

Anthony Morigerato:I think my deciding to start Operation: Tap is born out of a

frustration with the way tap is perceived and received by the general public.

TG: I've heard it said that when we think about what we want to achieve, we often aim we

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HI, MY NAME IS ANTHONY MORIGERATO! I AM A TAP DANCER, EMMY NOMINATED CHOREOGRAPHER, FILMMAKER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, AND EDUCATOR. WELCOME TO AM DANCE PRODUCTIONS!!

EDUCATION

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CHOREOGRAPHY

I humbly invite you to this space to share in my joy of tap dance and my strong belief that art and art making matters. You will be able to keep up with all of my professional work, see where I am teaching, and also contact me for bookings all within this website. Be it on a film set, a professional stage, a dance studio, or any other place in between…I hope that this new website will allow us the forum to connect to one another and that we make rhythmic, artistic, and world changing magic in the near future!!

With love and respect,

AM

PERFORMANCE

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BOOKING

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Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer. Anthony is the executive producer and artistic director for AM Dance Productions, an award winning film and dance theater production company.
In 2014, Anthony founded and is currently the co-director and managing partner of Operation: Tap, an online forum that is dedicated to immersing tap dancing into the public’s consciousness. He has appeared as a choreographer and/or a performer on television shows including The Tony Danza Show, America’s Got Talent, The Arsenio Hall Show, and So You Think You Can Dance, for which he received an Emmy Nomination. Anthony holds the world record for “most tap sounds in one minute” having made 1,163 sounds.
Anthony is an accomplished dancer in multiple disciplines, having trained at Marymount Manhattan College, where he performed the works of Robert Battle, Elizabeth Higgins, Jiri Kylian, David Parsons, Katie Langan and William Soleu. He has recently participated in choreographic residencies at Marymount Manhattan C