St. Louis Tap Festival (Twelfth Annual) Festival 2001-07-30 St Louis, MO July 30-August 4, 2001 Twelfth annual festival includes master tap classes, tap jams, panel discussions, and participants showcase. The Sheraton St. Louis City Center, St. Louis, MO. Held in honor of Ernest "Brownie" Brown. Leonard Reed taught classes, as did Henry LeTang, Cholly Atkins taught vocal choreography. Dianne Walker, Jimmy Slyde also taught. Prince Spencer taught "slides" Nicholas Young teamed with Robert and Robin Reed for hip-hop tap classes. Other teachers were Debbi Dee, Acia Gray, and Sam Weber. Performers included Cholly Atkins, Maceo Anderson, Prince Spencer, Henry LeTang, Van Porter, Dianne Walker, Sam Weber, Omar Edwards, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Debbi Dee, Chrisiane Matallo, Regio McLaughlin, Bruce Bradley, Acia Gray, Jimmy Slyde, Andy Wasserman, Melba Huber, Robert L. Reed, Six Feet of Rhythm, and Especially Tap Co. 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.1051