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6 Week Session beginning May 20th/21st, 2025 with four levels to choose from, including absolute beginner. A great chance to learn and practice in a fun, supportive environment.
Location: Winchester Street Theatre – 80 Winchester St
Cost: $140 payable by e-transfer – includes practice videos to work on in between classes.
Class options according to level:
- absolute beginner – Wednesdays 7:30-8:30pm, May 21st – June 25 2025
A playful introduction to the basics of tap, focusing on weight transfers and musicality.
Tap shoes preferred but not required.
- on the way to intermediate – Tuesdays 7:20pm-8:30pm, May 20-June 24th 2025
Suitable for students with 2 years+ of tap experience.
Continued practice of basic tap steps including paradiddles and triple time steps.
- relaxed intermediate (musical theatre tap focus) – Wednesdays 6-7:15pm, May 21-June 25 2025
Suitable for students with 5 years+ of tap experience.
Focusing on musicality and style within the evolution of tap in musical theatre.
- brisk intermediate/advanced – Tuesdays 6pm-7:15pm, May 20-June 24th 2025
Suitable for students with 8 years+ of tap experience.
Focusing on technique, musicality, and picking up choreography.
Please contact allisonplamondon@gmail.com for more info and to register.
A bit about Allison –
Allison Plamondon is a choreographer, director, performer, and teacher originally from Edmonton. Canadian choreography highlights include Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, Damn Yankees, and Holiday Inn all for the Shaw Festival. Most recently, Allison directed/choreographed Seussical for St Lawrence College and choreographed Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at YPT. As a performer, Allison has been onstage at some of North America’s most exciting venues including Madison Square Garden, La MaMa, Symphony Space, the Charlottetown Festival, and the National Arts Centre.
An avid teacher, Allison is passionate about sharing movement with dancers of all ages and abilities. New York teaching highlights include AMDA, Queens Theater, Tom Todoroff Conservatory, Abrons Arts Center and Broadway Dance Center. Allison completed the Uta Hagen Teacher Training at HB Studio in 2016 and is a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® Trainer. Allison currently teaches tap in the Musical Theatre program at Sheridan College.