Melissa Almaguer Trio
Melissa Almaguer is a multidisciplinary tap artist, improviser and educator born and raised in Mexico now based in Brooklyn, NY. Using tap dance as her instrument, she creates communal spaces of sonic exploration that serve as rituals to heal and restore balance with Mother Nature/ oneself. Through them she intends to inspire a higher awareness of the power we all have to heal and create our own realities.
Melissa is currently the bandleader of several improvisation collectives including praesēns, Angel of Air / Angel of Water, and Melissa Almaguer Trio. Besides her projects as a bandleader and soloist she has also collaborated with Moor Mother, Irreversible Entanglements, William Parker, Luke Stewart, Elio Villafranca, JALCO, amongst others. She has appeared in works of today’s major tap exponents including her teacher Derick Grant, Dormeshia, Michela Marino Lerman, Jumaane Taylor and Christina Carminucci.
In her short time in New York City Melissa has performed in venues like Lincoln Center, The Joyce Theater, National Sawdust, The Jazz Gallery, Kaufman Music Center, and Jamaica Center of the Arts, to name a few. As an educator, she is currently on faculty at Steps On Broadway and Harlem School of the Arts and continues to hold workshops all around the world.
Melissa Almaguer Trio is composed of harpist Charles Overton and bassist Henry Fraser.
Photo Credit: Daniela Legorreta
CALENDAR.
Pricing
$30
(inclusive of advance phone/web service fee; door price)
Doors Open
9PM
For last-minute tickets, please visit our Box Office at 425 Lafayette Street. Web sales and phone sales end when doors open, and tickets may be available for in-person, walk-up sale right before the show begins.