S t e v e  Z e e
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Steve has danced with Gregory Hines and the Nicholas Brothers and has shared the bill with numerous tap notables. He has been a featured soloist in the Jazz Tap Ensemble and a member of Rhapsody In Taps. He has performed and taught across the United States, Canada, Brazil, France and Germany, has been an artist in residence at the Chicago Human Rhythm Project and an original cast member in the American premiere of the musical Hot Shoe Shuffle.
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Steve’s choreography is performed by professional dance companies and youth groups across the United States, Europe and South America and was featured at the Beijing International Dance Festival. He trained Kiril Kulish for the Broadway production of Billy Elliot for which Kiril won the Tony Award and has served as tap coach for pop icons David Lee Roth and Toni Basil.

Steve edited the Oral History/Biography of tap master Stan Kahn (archived at the San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum) and the Oral History/Biography of Robert Scheerer (archived at the New York Public Library and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) and has made five instructional tap videos. As a theater artist, Steve trained at UCLA, the Sorbonne/Universite de Paris III and with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. By the way, if you’ve ever seen tap dancing Hershey’s Kisses on your television, then you have heard Steve dance!

Steve is currently performing his club act at the M Bar in Hollywood, CA and is on faculty in the dance departments at CSU Long Beach and Santa Monica College. He teaches on-going weekly classes at the Tap Academy in Santa Monica, the Dance Arts Academy in Los Angeles and for the Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation in Los Angeles. He is the director of the nonprofit arts organization LA Ironworks and is on the Board of the Dance Resource Center.