Barbara Duffy and Company

Lynn Schwab Lynn Schwab was a founding member and Dance Captain of California’s Taps, Ltd. and performed throughout California including Los Angeles’ National Tap Dance Day festivities and in Santa Barbara’s well-known Summer Solstice Celebration. Lynn and members of Taps, Ltd. choreographed, produced and performed in the first through fifth of Santa Barbara’s Annual National Tap Dance Day Celebration concerts at the University of California Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall.

Now living in New York City, Lynn is currently a member of Barbara Duffy & Company, Susan Hebach’s The Tap Collective and Max Pollak’s RumbaTap. She previously was a member of Feraba - African Rhythm Tap. With these groups, Lynn has had the opportunity to perform at such notable venues as The Duke on 42nd Street (Tap City 2001-2008), Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Town Hall, Off Broadway’s La MAMA, World Festival 2000, the International Street Performers Festival, the River to River Festival, Central Park’s SummerStage, Joe’s Pub, Studio 54, the Joyce and the Joyce Soho Theatres. Lynn also tours the United States with Tony Waag’s Tap City on Tour.

Lynn has also had the pleasure of performing at The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse as a guest artist with Billy Siegenfeld and Jeannie Hill’s Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and has choreographed and performed with Tina Baird at Jacob’s Pillow. With members of The Tap Collective, she choreographed and performed the Morton Gould Tap Dance Concerto with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist she has performed with The Chamber Orchestra Kremlin as well as at the Columbus Taps! Festival (2003-2007), the Tampa Bay Tap Dancing Festival (2006-2008), and festivals in Germany, Spain, France, Holland and Estonia.

Lynn was a frequent guest performer at Barbara Duffy’s Jazz Tap Brunch and joined in regularly at Buster Brown’s Sunday Tap Jam at Swing 46.

Lynn’s rich dance experience includes studying tap, jazz, modern, ballet, African and Afro-Cuban. She has shared that knowledge with students at Broadway Dance Center, NYU’s Collaborative Arts Project 21, Manhattan Motion, Ballet Arts, New Jersey’s Theatre Arts Dance Academy and workshops and festivals in the United States, Europe and Japan. She currently holds regular classes at Steps On Broadway in New York City.

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