Advanced Level Residencies
We are thrilled to present two advanced level residency opportunities at our 2025 festival and we are even more thrilled to have the incomparable Anthony Morigerato and Leo Manzari leading the residencies!!!
The OC Tap Festival Residencies are immersive experiences that are designed to elevate and provide tap dancers the opportunity to intimately study with leading and distinguished tap dance artists, gain insight into their artistic process and approach, all while learning an original piece of work.
The residencies are audition based and in keeping the residencies intimate to offer a one on one experience, up to only 15 advanced level tap dancers per residency will be hand selected. Tap dancers may audition and participate in both residencies. You must be fully registered for our Advance/Pro level, in order to participate in our advanced level residencies. Our residency programs begin the morning of Wednesday, July 9th, 2025. Each residency is $325 and includes 7 hours of intimate rehearsal time to learn an original piece of choreography, a residency dinner at the beach with the residency choreographers, and a featured performance in our professional festival closing concert, which will be accompanied by live music!
Please see below for audition details and to submit an audition form. Audition forms will be accepted until Friday, February 17th, 2025. Results will be shared in early March.
If you are auditioning for a residency, please do not purchase your concert ticket just yet! For those accepted into a residency, we will provide further details regarding concert tickets and concert performance logistics.
Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, content creator, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer. Anthony is the executive producer and artistic director for AM Dance Productions. AM Dance Productions, short films include The Text (2015), The Subtext (2018), and the award winning When Snow Falls (2020). AM Dance Productions live theatrical shows include AM Dance Project (2006-2008), Matt and Anthony (2009), flood (in the dark corner) (2017), flood (redux) (2020), and Alternate Spaces (2021). 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. In 2019, Anthony created CODA, Break The Floor’s online dance competition scoring system that provides dancers with genre specific score sheets, homework video content to improve their performance, and data analytics. Anthony worked as a tap dance teacher, performer, and adjudicator for NUVO Dance Convention from 2010-2020. As a performer, Anthony was a soloist and member of Michael Minery’s Tapaholics (2002-2012), a soloist and associate choreographer for Stacey Tookey’s Still Motion, and a soloist for various tap dance festivals, benefits, industrials, seminars, and performances since 1999. He has appeared as a choreographer and/or a performer on television shows including The Tony Danza Show (2005), America’s Got Talent (2009), The Arsenio Hall Show (2013), So You Think You Can Dance (2013-2018- Emmy Nomination 2016). 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 done choreographic residencies at Marymount Manhattan College (2014, 2016, and 2019), Pace University (2019), and is an artist in residence at the American Tap Dance Foundation (2020). Most recently Anthony performed and had choreography featured in Ayodele Casel: Chasing Magic (2021), presented by the Joyce Theater in NYC. Anthony continues to travel as a teacher and choreographer for dance organizations, festivals, competitions, theater schools, and dance studios all over the world.
Originally from Washington D.C., Leo Manzari has headlined in the touring and Off-Broadway productions of Maurice Hines is Tappin’ Thru Life, featured Guest Star on So You Think You Can Dance, The Mo’nique Show, PBS News Hour, Jerry Lewis Telethon, ABC’s The View, PBS’ Kennedy Center’s 50th anniversary. He’s performed alongside Grammy Award® winning band “The Free Nationals” in various virtual events. He’s featured with multiple POPS orchestras across the world including The Philly POPS, The San Diego Symphony, The Florida Orchestra to name a few.
Leo is also featured in two documentaries available for streaming: Maurice Hines’ Bring Them Back, and Leonard Soloway’s “Broadway.” He’s appeared in the Late Late Show with James Corden and Ariana Grande. Manzari sold out his debut headline performance at The Cutting Room (450 cap) and he has performed his original music at prominent venues in Los Angeles: El Cid, The Sun Rose, The Study, and The Hollywood Majestic. Spotify has also supported Leo’s music with placements on their highly streamed editorial playlists.
RESIDENCY AUDITION INFORMATION
Anthony Morigerato Residency Audition Instructions:
Submit a video of yourself performing solo. This can be a recorded performance of choreography or a video of you improvising either a cappella or to music.
Leo Manzari Residency Audition Instructions:
Submit two videos:
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A video of you dancing a cappella—either improvisation or choreography. Please clearly indicate in the video whether you are improvising or performing set choreography.
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A 1-2 minute video sharing a personal experience where you felt misunderstood or misrepresented, and how you overcame that challenge.