Adam began dancing at Steps at the age of eight, studying tap, ballet, jazz, musical theater, and hip-hop. His intensive study of tap includes a wide range of teachers and styles from Rhythm to Broadway. Taking these various styles, Adam has created a tap class with a diversity and richness that incorporates these varied techniques; both individually and combining them to see how they contrast and compliment each other.
Adam is currently a student at Columbia University majoring in Sustainable Development and examining global warming effects on sociological, historical and economic models. As a person who loves academics, Adam has spent time considering and observing the correlation between learning tap and cognitive development. It has been fully documented that learning a musical instrument directly enhances the reading ability of young children. This idea sparked Adam into working with young students to teach tap - truly a percussive instrument - to help develop reading and writing abilities, as well as those large motor skills attributed to learning tap. Adam has also choreographed for Dancers Responding to AIDS, and various showcases at Steps on Broadway.
The focus of Adam's class is a combination of movement and musicality. Tap, as a dance form, requires the entire body to create expression; and at the same time, the feet, as musical instruments, engage both the physical and auditory senses. The musicality of this dance form adds a deeper and intense level of experience for the dancers and audience alike. Therefore, the student's understanding of rhythm and music grows and is tantamount in this learning process. The class evolves into an adventure in movement, music, rhythm and the live symbiosis created by the students; truly a journey of many senses.
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