As a soloist, and choreographer/director of The American Tap Dance Orchestra, Ms Bufalino has performed and taught Internationally for over 30 years. Her collaborations with her partner and mentor the great Charles ‘Honi’ Coles, and her many performances with Gregory Hines, The Nicholas Brothers, and the many giants of tap dance has infused her with the essence of the form that she now shares with her stories, teaching, and dances. Her own experimental work, with taps, electronics and poetry has influenced the next two generations of tap artists, and she is still creating new experimental and traditional tap works and performances. 

She has performed solo and with her company “The American Tap Dance Orchestra” at all the major venues; Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, The Kennedy center and major theaters across America and Europe.  For the State Department the ATDO toured Eastern Europe introducing the newly democratic theaters to the world of Tap Dance.  With her company she appeared in the PBS special Tap Dance in America...with Gregory Hines.  ​

Ms. Bufalino has been awarded several awards from the National Endowment for The Arts.  The NEA deemed two of her choreographies for the ATDO, American Masterpieces.   Her choreography has been performed by several noted companies, most recently her piece "Jump Monk," was performed by Dorrance Dance at City Center, n\NYC.

As an author Ms Bufalino has written many articles and wrote the foreword and afterward for the book Jazz Dance by Marshall and Jean Stearns. Her memoir "Tapping the Source...Tap dance, stories, theory and practice" and a book of poems "Circular Migrations" have both been published by Codhill Press. and her recent novella "Song of the Split Elm", is published by Outskirts Press.

She has been awarded: The Flobert Award, The Tapestry Award, The Tap City Hall of Fame Award, The Dance Magazine, and the prestigious Bessie Award, all for outstanding achievement and contributions to the field of tap dance.

Dancer/choreographer based in Germany.

Ilana Reynolds works in the fields of dance, choreography, and artistic research. She has an MA in Contemporary Dance Education from the University of Performing Arts Frankfurt and was an awarded scholar of the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes. She teaches contemporary dance to students and professionals in Germany and abroad and is active as a performer in the freelance dance scene, collaborating often with choreographers Laura Hicks, Sabrina Huth, and Valentin Schmehl. Ilana also works as a dance dramaturge for choreographer Célestine Hennermann in Frankfurt a. Main. In 2020 she was awarded the DIS TANZ SOLO scholarship to develop performative and archival research on choreographer Christine Brunel’s solo work called “Re-performing the solo”. The work has been shown in collaboration with the Tanzarchiv in Cologne, Germany and Tanzhaus Temporär N*3 Kassel, Germany.

The Future Movement in a Dance Archive is an archival research project examining the dance photographs taken by German photographer Wilfried Krüger of the French dancer/choreographer Christine Brunel. The research takes the perspective of dance photography, as an archival tool, and brings it into an energetic process in order to reveal the potential futures of a dance already gone.

Joanne Barrett teaches integrated movement, Ashtanga Vinyasa Yoga Method and The Schatz Method, a form of corrective functional movement. These forms of instruction are paired with Somatic Movement Methods, such as Bartenieff Fundamentals, Body- Mind Centering and Contact Improvisation. In the past few years, Joanne’s main influences have come from master teachers, Eddie Stern (yoga), Anya Cloud (CI), Carol Swann and Diane Elliot (Somatic Arts at The Moving On Center (Berkeley CA.) Joanne creates a versatile teaching style and offers individual attention to participants. Artistically, she has a BFA in dance and a 25 yr. + performing career in concert dance, with various companies from Chicago (Chicago Repertory Dance Ensemble) to London, (Michael Clark and Co.) to Uruguay CONTRADANZA) as well as independent choreographers from South Florida, NYC and Argentina. She continues practicing Contact Improvisation Dance in Chicago and collaborating with various artists on performing projects. As a solo artist Joanne is currently exploring the theme of SAMSARA, literally “flowing-around” in the cycle of Life and Rebirth, with a twist and question on the possibility of “birthing a new life while in an existing one”. Joanne also loves baking and dabbling in the creative art of collage and book binding. She is a mother of two and enjoys long extensive road trips to California!