Drika Overton

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Kittery, ME

I've been tap dancer, producer, choreographer and teacher for almost 30 years. Some of my production hits include The Portsmouth Percussive Dance Festival Sound of Movement concerts; Clara's Dream A Jazz Nutcracker (which toured the Northeast for 6 years and was re-mounted in 2009 after a successfully funded Kickstarter Project); Music Hall Follies: A Vaudeville in 9 Acts which featured Broadway and film actor Bill Irwin and tap dance legend Fayard Nicholas among many others; and Off The Beaten Path; A Jazz & Tap Odyssey commissioned by New England Presenters with support from the New England Foundation for the Arts.

This year I am producing a new holiday concert featuring acclaimed artists and longtime collaborators Brenda Bufalino, Josh Hilberman and Paul Arslanian and other phenomenal dancers and musicians.

I am currently on the Theatre Dance Department faculty of the Boston
Conservatory and am the founder and director of The Dance Hall in Kittery, Maine.

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