Brenda Bufalino

As a soloist, and choreographer/director of The American Tap Dance Orchestra, Ms

Bufalino has performed and taught Internationally for over 30 years. Her collaborations with

her partner and mentor the great Charles ‘Honi’ Coles, and her many performances with Gregory Hines, The Nicholas Brothers, and the many giants of tap dance has infused her with the essence of the form that she now shares with her stories, teaching, and dances. Her own experimentalwork, with taps, electronics and poetry has influenced the next two generations of tap artists, and she is still creating new experimental and traditional tap works and performances.

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She has performed solo and with her company “The American Tap Dance Orchestra” at

all the major venues; including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, and a new

work "On the Mobius loop w/ Mingus," premiered at the Guggenheim Museum in 2025. With

her company she appeared in the PBS special Tap Dance in America...with Gregory Hines.

The NEA deemed two of her choreographies for the ATDO, American Masterpieces.

Her choreography has been reconstructed and performed by several noted companies, most

recently her piece "Jump Monk," was performed by Dorrance Dance at City Center, NYC.

She has three published books: the memoir "Tapping the Source...Tap dance, stories,

theory and practice" and a book of poems "Circular Migrations" and her recent novella "Song of

the Split Elm." @brenda.bufalino