St Louis Tap Festival (Sixth Annual ) Festival 1997-07-31 St Louis, MO July 31 - August 3 1997 Sixth Annual St Louis Tap Festival. Held at Dimensions Dance Studio. "All that Tap VI" concert August 3. Robert Reed and Company presented the St. Louis Tap Fesival honoring Prince Spencer from the Four Step Brothers with tap classes, jam and performance. Classes were taught by Prince Spencer, Fayard Nicholas, Fred Kelly, Savion Glover, and Debbie Allen who taught a very popular jazz class. Also teaching were Dianne "Lady Di" Walker, Bruce Stegmann, Lane Alexander, Van "The Man" Porter, Sam Weber, Robert L. Reed, Jan Feager, Dormeshia Sumbry, John Kloss, Brill Barrett and Glenn Sowder. The Tap Concert was performed at the Harris-Stowe State College Auditorium on Sunday August 3. Debbie Allen emceed the event with comedian Reynaldo Rey. It was held in honor of Prince Spencer of The Four Step Brothers. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.1047