Company
The Philadelphia Jazz Tap Ensemble is an award-winning company that tells stories through tap dance, jazz music, text and vocussion. The stories of what came before us live through us and create our future in jazz. We advance the scope of American tap dance and jazz music traditions through current choreography, modern compositions, progressive performances and accessible environments and contexts for the work.
Founded in 2014 by Pamela Hetherington, initially as a project-based ‘experiment,’ the PJTE has since been commissioned by Jazz Bridge (Neighborhood Concert), The Philadelphia Jazz Project (7X7 Series, Whitman at 200, POOL), Creative Philadelphia (Music at the Market, Culture in the Courtyard, Creative Avenues, Neighborhood Arts), Dixon Place (30-30-30, Eight in Show), The Barnes Foundation (Free First Sunday), The Outlet Dance Project, the Allentown Art Museum (Third Thursday), Symphony Space (Stam-Pede/APAP), ArtYard and the Fairmount Waterworks. The PJTE has been featured on the nationally-syndicated arts program, Articulate. They have received organizational and project grant funding from New Music USA (2022-2023), the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (2016-2024), the Connelly Foundation (2023-2024), Dolfinger-McMahon (2023), and the PA Council on the Arts (2016-2019).
Reviews: Thinking Dance (September 2022) | Thinking Dance (April 2021) | The Dance Journal (April 2021) | Thinking Dance (September 2020) | Broad Street Review (September 2019) | Phindie