Originally from Brazil, Felipe Galganni has spent the last 12 years choreographing, producing, performing, and teaching as a tap dancer in NYC.
Felipe is a recipient of the Machado de Assis Medal for his work disseminating Brazilian culture in NYC, and most recently a Bistro Award recipient for Unique Jazz Presentation, with his BOSSA TAP TRIO.
He is also on faculty at Steps on Broadway and The American Tap Dance Foundation, where he also develops new choreography as an artist in residency. Felipe has taught at dance festivals like Tap City, Tap Kids, Joffrey Tap Intensive, and in colleges
like Vassar and the Juilliard School.
Galganni has performed and toured tap dancing with two Grammy winning artists - “Tim Kubart and the Space Cadets'', as well as legendary Brazilian bassist Nilson Matta.
Felipe has been seen in dance works by his mentor, Brenda Bufalino, as well as Michelle Dorrance, Max Pollak and Lisa La Touche.
As a director, producer and choreographer, Felipe has created and performed in his shows TAP&TOM, Felipe 101, Forget about Me and others. As an actor and singer Felipe has just finished a run of the off-broadway revival of A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, as Sasha at Theatre Row, in New York City.
Felipe is now invested in his new creation, Xana DuMe, a Drag Tap Dance Queen. He debuted his drag show "The Rise of Xana DuMe '' last fall in NYC, and had his first appearance for the tap dance audiences at Rhythm in Motion, directed by Tony Waag, as part of Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival.
Felipe's goal is making tap dance a more supportive environment for queer artists like himself to be able to express their artistry, and hopefully hold a safer space for the newer generation to come.
Photo by Romeu Melo, NYC
Felipe is a recipient of the Machado de Assis Medal for his work disseminating Brazilian culture in NYC, and most recently a Bistro Award recipient for Unique Jazz Presentation, with his BOSSA TAP TRIO.
He is also on faculty at Steps on Broadway and The American Tap Dance Foundation, where he also develops new choreography as an artist in residency. Felipe has taught at dance festivals like Tap City, Tap Kids, Joffrey Tap Intensive, and in colleges
like Vassar and the Juilliard School.
Galganni has performed and toured tap dancing with two Grammy winning artists - “Tim Kubart and the Space Cadets'', as well as legendary Brazilian bassist Nilson Matta.
Felipe has been seen in dance works by his mentor, Brenda Bufalino, as well as Michelle Dorrance, Max Pollak and Lisa La Touche.
As a director, producer and choreographer, Felipe has created and performed in his shows TAP&TOM, Felipe 101, Forget about Me and others. As an actor and singer Felipe has just finished a run of the off-broadway revival of A Day In Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, as Sasha at Theatre Row, in New York City.
Felipe is now invested in his new creation, Xana DuMe, a Drag Tap Dance Queen. He debuted his drag show "The Rise of Xana DuMe '' last fall in NYC, and had his first appearance for the tap dance audiences at Rhythm in Motion, directed by Tony Waag, as part of Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival.
Felipe's goal is making tap dance a more supportive environment for queer artists like himself to be able to express their artistry, and hopefully hold a safer space for the newer generation to come.
Photo by Romeu Melo, NYC
