Body Percussion Master Class

As part of , Lynn Schwab from New York will present a Body Percussion Master Class. Add some musicality, rhythm and sound to your movement with this body percussion class. Not just for tap dancers, this class is geared towards finding the music that lives in each of us.


Classes are $18 each ($12 for students/seniors/BDA & Springstep members/Medford residents) 

Purchase your classes now!

Against the Odds: Stories of Adaptation, Translation & Survival

March 18th-April 15th

Springstep, 98 George P. Hassett Drive, Medford, MA

For more information and to purchase tickets please visit our website!  Against the Odds is supported in part by the Medford Arts Council, a local agency supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
Thank you to Springstep for its support of this event.

Lynn Schwab was a founding member and Dance Captain of California’s Taps, Ltd. and performed throughout California including Los Angeles’ National Tap Dance Day festivities and in Santa Barbara’s well-known Summer  Solstice Celebration.  In addition to performing in, Lynn and members of Taps, Ltd., choreographed for and produced the first through fifth of Santa Barbara’s Annual National Tap Dance Day Celebration concerts at University of California Santa Barbara’s Campbell Hall.

Now living in New York City, Lynn is currently a member of Barbara Duffy’s Barbara Duff and Company, Max Pollak’s Rumba Tap, and Susan Hebach’s The Tap Collective.  She previously was a member of Feraba - African Rhythm Tap.  With these groups, Lynn has had the opportunity to perform at such notable New York venues as The Duke on 42nd
Street, Judson Church, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors, Town Hall, Off Broadway’s La MAMA, World Festival 2000, The International Street Performers Festival, The River to River Festival, Central Park’s SummerStage, Joe’s Pub, Studio 54, Symphony Space, The Joyce, and The Joyce SoHo. Lynn also tours the United States with Tony Waag’s Tap City on Tour. 

Lynn has  had the pleasure of performing at The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse as a guest artist with Billy Siegenfeld and Jeannie Hill’s Jump Rhythm Jazz Project and 
has  choreographed and performed with Tina Baird at Jacob’s Pillow.  With members of The Tap Collective, she choreographed and performed the Morton Gould Tap Dance Concerto with the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra. As a soloist she has performed with The Chamber Orchestra Kremlin, as well as at the Columbus Taps! Festival (2003-2007), The Tampa Bay Tap Dancing Festival (2006-2008), The St. Louis Tap Festival, and festivals in Austria, Germany, Spain, France, Holland, Estonia, and Brazil.

She was a frequent guest performer at Barbara Duffy’s Tap Dance and Jazz Brunch and joined in regularly at Buster Brown’s Sunday Tap Jam at Swing 46.

Lynn’s rich dance experience includes studying Tap, Jazz, Modern, Ballet, African and Afro-Cuban. She has shared that knowledge with students at Broadway Dance Center, NYU’s Collaborative Arts Project 21, Manhattan Motion, Ballet Arts, New Jersey’s Theatre Arts Dance Academy, and workshops and festivals in The United States, Europe, Brazil, and Japan.  She is currently on faculty at The American Tap Dance Foundation and at Steps on Broadway in New York City.