Description:- Michela Marino Lerman, jazz tap dancer, choreographer, and the only woman of her generation to be inducted as a Lifetime Honorary member of the Copasetics, the fraternity of mostly black male tap dancers that was founded in 1949 in memory of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, was born in New York's Greenwich Village to parents Theresa Marino and James Lerman. Her tap pedigree is sterling, as she studied with the most venerated rhythm tap masters of her time. Tap study began at the age of six with Bonnie McCleod at Woodpeckers dance studio and continued with Robin Tribble at the Chinese Cultural Center, Susan Hebach at Dick Shay's, and, from age eleven on, with Savion Glover, Baakari Wilder, and Jason Samuels Smith at Broadway Dance Center. "It was about steps that were powerful and loud and commanding," said Lerman about Smith, who focused on elements of tonality that he had gotten from Steve Condos. "What Jason was doing was so much a part of Steve's warm up. He was playing the floor, getting all the sounds out, and that's a big part of what I do-- sing the rhythms, try to make my feet sing."
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