JOHN ANGELES

John Angeles is from Fort Worth, TX, where he began his music training and went on to study percussion at TCU.  He was a proud member of the 2001 DCI world champions, the Cavaliers.  Throughout college and thereafter, John has performed with various percussion groups, bands, and has toured the world doing performances and clinics.  John would like to thank his parents, his family and friends, Jake, Muggs1, LaSalle, Shakey, Curbee, Muggs2, Hunter, Atticus, Brillo and Maximus, for helping make his dreams come true, and dedicates his performances to them all.

ALAN ASUNCION

Alan Asuncion has been playing drums for about 22 years and has most recently been seen in the Off-Broadway show, De La Guarda (NYC, Korea, Israel). At 14 years old, he joined a wedding band that would become one of the most important music lessons of his life, allowing him to perform with many Broadway artists, notable jazz performers, as well as performances for former Mayor Giuliani and the president of the Philippines.  For the past 13 years, he has been teaching piano and drums on Long Island.  Special thanks goes to Mom & Dad (your patience will be rewarded) and Tita, John Fogarty at Munro Music for ALWAYS making things work out for me, my students for your inspiration, and especially my wife for her undying support and love!  All my love goes to her and our beautiful baby girl.

MICHELLE DORRANCE

Michelle Dorrance is an internationally renowned tap dancer, teacher and choreographer. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from NYU (Gallatin!), plays bass for Darwin Deez, and is on faculty at Broadway Dance Center. She has toured with Savion Glover and was critically acclaimed in Derick Grant’s Imagine Tap! and Jason Samuels-Smith’s Charlie’s Angels: A Tribute to Charlie Parker. She grew up studying dance at her mother’s school, The Ballet School of Chapel Hill while performing with mentor, Gene Medler’s North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble. It was with NCYTE that she learned many other percussive dance forms, including Appalachian flatfoot and hambone with John Dee Holeman and South African Gum Boot Dance with Beverly Bottsford of Chuck Davis African Dance Ensemble. She also learned to step from local North Carolina kids from a Baptist Church. Michelle worked with Max Pollak (RumbaTap) and Mark Mendonca (360 Project). She thanks God, her incredible family, friends and the Indefatigable Human Spirit.

MARIVALDO DOS SANTOS

Marivaldo Dos Santos is from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. He has taken his eclectic talent all over the world, traveling throughout Europe, USA, Latin America and Asia. As a composer, musician, percussionist and producer, Dos Santos has contributed to some of the most recognizable artists, shows, music, festivals and movie productions of the past decade,including the legendary Sting, The Fugees, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Pras, Joshua Bell, Steve Coleman, MD MC'S, Beetroot, Daniela Mercury, Vinicus Cantuaria, Margerth Menezes, Ogans and the Rock in Rio Madrid Festival. His own music projects like electronic recycle, Brazil Underground and Quabales bring a vibrant mix of live and electronic new sounds and performances. Film and TV credits: The Emmy winning Brazilian soap opera India: a Love Story / Caminho das Indias, the movie Get him to the Greek, The IMAX film Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey and Sesame Street. He is proud to be part of such an amazing production like STOMP.

DUSTIN ELSEA

Dustin Elsea has been banging on trash cans and sweeping floors to a rhythm before he knew STOMP existed. Hailing from Virgina Beach, VA, he was inspired by a man named Hugh Copeland, then set out to pursue a dream and is thrilled to making it come true with STOMP. "Thank you Hugh. Mom and Dad—I owe it all to you. Thanks for the constant love and support."

FRITZLYN HECTOR

Fritzlyn Hector is a dancer, instructor and choreographer. Born in Brooklyn; raised in “Haitian Love!” as a youth, she joined the “Deeper-Lite” youth organization directed by Enoch and Ephraim. They became her “Dancer Fathers,” and exposed her to nutrition, discipline, business, drama and music. She was taught traditional and social dances by master dancers and drummers from West and Central Africa. Also joined Batoto Yetu directed by Angola’s Julio Leitao. She was one of the youngest principal dancers for “Forces of Nature Dance Theater Company.” Performed/choreographed for: Caribbean Music Awards, VH1 Hip Hop Honors Awards, worked with The Roots, Anthony Hamilton, Italy’s recording artist Gale. I’d like to thank God, ancestors and my big sister for the inspiration. Honor Lucienne Belizaire (my mom) for her love and superb support!; my mentor Ras Enoch and to Assane and Amantery Opare…I’m YOUR biggest fan!! Ashe!!

BRAD HOLLAND

Brad Holland has been involved with some form of percussion ever since middle school. Peppered with concert, symphonic, marching, bluegrass, musical theatre, and power rock duo band experience, his flavor is something you'll certainly savor. He studied theater at university. He joined Stomp in 2002. From Alabama, Brad is an aspiring actor, artist, and musician. He is extremely happy to be a member of the STOMP family and thanks his parents, brothers and friends for all their love and support.

RYAN JOHNSON

Ryan Johnson is a native of Baltimore, Maryland; began dancing under the direction of his mother Vanessa Jackson Johnson at Turn Out Performing Arts Center. He created Raw Sound Tap Company with the purpose to teach, restore and preserve the history of Tap Dance in the Maryland area. Ryan has been cited for his choreography and solo dance performance and is the 2010 award winner of the DC Metro Dance Awards: Outstanding Solo Performance and finalist for the Emerging Artist Award. Credits include Cirque Du Soleil Mosaic, The Washington Ballet, The Great Gatsby, DansEncore 2010 International Dance Festival as a featured solo artist, fusing step and tap dance and the tour of Step Afrika!. Recently Ryan was the lead choreographer for the 2010 Season Premier of Extreme Makeover Home Edition, in Baltimore, MD, where he created a Step Extravaganza.

LISA LATOUCHE

Proudly Canadian, Lisa Latouche is a tap dancer, teacher, choreographer and director. Performing credits include Blood on the Dance Floor a tribute to Michael Jackson by Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Tap n2 Peace a story told to the music of Stevie Wonder by Ayodele Casel/Sarah Savelli and Sophisticated Ladies, honoring the music of Duke Ellington. She has worked with critically acclaimed artists such as Jason Samuels Smith, Max Pollak and his company Rumba Tap, Barbara Duffy and Barbara Duffy and Co., and Cecelia Leal Calloway. Lisa has been featured in numerous dance festivals around the world as a teacher and solo artist, has her own performing group Tap Phonics and works with the collaborative group The Tap Messengers Of New York. Lisa is thrilled to have joined the cast of STOMP and is simply grateful. For more info visit www.lisalatouche.com.

STEPHANIE MARSHALL

Theater credits: numerous NY shows, including STOMP, and the musical comedy Pride and Soul starring herself and husband and co-creator, Keith "Wildchild" Middleton PrideAndSoul.com. Film and TV credits: Stomp Out Loud on HBO, Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey, Piñero, Guiding Light, LC's Home Made Simple and various commercials, including a feature as a coffee-drinking conga player for Folgers. Print credits: Us, Essence, Allure, and Self magazines.

KEITH MIDDLETON

Brooklyn, NY's own "Wildchild" has been with Stomp since 1995. Film and TV credits: Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey, Just My Luck, Threat, Traveler, Stomp Out Loud on HBO, Third Watch, Mad About You, Sesame Street, The Academy Awards, PGA, McDonald's, and Robots (as choreographer). Musical production credits: Defined Mind (DefinedMind.com), various recording artists including his own rap group, HYDRA (hydrahiphop.com), Off-Broadway shows such as Liz Tuccillo's Joe Fearless and Pride and Soul.

JASON MILLS

Jason Mills was born and raised in Loudoun County, Virginia, and moved to New York City in 1994 at the age of 22 to pursue a career in the arts. Initially working for clothing designer Nicole Miller as a graphic artist, he was hired in 1995 to perform in the original touring company of STOMP. Over the next four years work with the show included a 1996 Academy Awards performance, an appearance in the STOMP IMAX film Pulse: A STOMP Odyssey, and global touring. After a six-year hiatus from the show he is once again a part of the New York cast. Jason is a multi-instrumentalist, a producer, a composer, and a bandleader. He performs regularly with his six-piece soul band BEETROOT, whose debut album 13 was nominated for Album of the Year by the Independent Music Awards in 2005.

REGGIE TALLEY

Reggie Talley was born and raised in Houston, where he excelled in sports and theatre at an early age. In 2007 he won the Texas Forensics State Championship for Humorous Interpretation. Reggie is a self-taught dancer, self-taught percussionist and acrobat. After graduating high school at the age of 16, he then went off to Sam Houston State University to study acting. He toured with Main Street Theatre while being in school, and from there...the rest is history. He wants to thank his mom, dad, brothers and sister and the rest of the fam for their constant love and support.He wants to thank his girlfriend for showing him how to love. He would also like to give thanks to Mac and Buddy, and a special thanks to his brother Khan, who believed in him and showed him to reap the full benefits out of life and continues to be his guardian angel. PHC.

FIONA WILKES

Fiona Wilkes trained as a dancer at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, but from the age of 9 played steel drums. She had a lead role as actress/dancer in the short film Fireflies and Stars. She has been involved in many Yes/No projects from performing to singing, but after a year as rehearsal director with one of the North American STOMP companies, she is glad to be back with the original cast. The original Bin Bitch.

NICHOLAS YOUNG

Nicholas Young began his professional career at fifteen as an apprentice with Tapestry Dance Company in Austin, Texas, under the direction of Acia Gray and Deirdre Strand. Studying Tap, Ballet and Modern, he moved from Principal Dancer to Resident Choreographer, spending more than eight years with this multi-formed company and eventually earning him best male dancer in Austin, 2002. He studied with Debra Bray, Diane Walker, Sam Weber, Eddie Brown, Sally Jaque, Dee McCandless and others. These influences gave him a rhythm foundation and endless inspiration. In New York he has performed with Manhattan Tap Ensemble, Rumba Tap, Hoofin to Hittin and Cyro Baptista's Beat The Donkey. He has taught master classes and performed for the St. Louis, Tap City and Soul to Sole Tap Festivals, as well as the American Dance Festival. Nicholas would like to thank his mother Linda for giving him his passion and dedication to movement and music.