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- My current teaching schedule at area studios is available for viewing online and also to download
- Online video of my St Louis Tap Festival performance is coming soon on my "Honoree" page!
Biography
Gene GeBauer, born in Nebraska, raised in Oregon, began his interest in dance in his early teens, during his recovery from a serious illness. He concentrated on tap dance with the aim of becoming a professional hoofer, and turned to ballet to improve his tap skills. Being told that tap was going out of style, he switched to ballet with the same passion he formerly had for tap. He moved to New York to join the Ballet Russe. That company had just closed down as he arrived, and Mr. GeBauer turned to the Broadway stage to make a living. During his twenty years on Broadway he appeared in such hits as “Once Upon A Mattress”, “Camelot”, “No Strings”, “Hello, Dolly!”, “Oh! Calcutta”, and “Sugar” with such stars as Carol Burnett, Julie Andrews, Carol Channing, Richard Burton, Robert Goulet, and Steve Condos. He danced for such choreographers as Gower Champion, Hanya Holm, and Alvin Ailey. After the birth of his daughter, he and his wife, playwright Judy GeBauer, returned to Oregon where they the founded and operated The Players Center, a school offering classes in dance, singing, and acting, for five years, and where he rediscovered his love of tap. When his wife was recruited into the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa, Gene joined the dance faculty where he started the tap program, which became highly successful, while working on his B.A. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from UI, and moved to Colorado to certify as an Alexander Technique teacher. While he studied Alexander Technique, he began teaching tap, and is a private contractor with a number of the major dance studios along the Front Range.
He has taken intensives with just about every other master tapper you can imagine. His tap classes concentrate on strong technique, drawing on material from classic tap through Broadway tap to rhythm tap.
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