Shelley Oliver has toured throughout Europe, China, the Caribbean, Canada, andthe United States. She appearedinternationally with some of the legends of the tap world, including Savion Glover, Jimmy Slide, Buster Brown, Steve Condos, and Chuck Green. She is a founding member of Manhattan Tap and was co-artistic director and choreographer with the company. Her television appearances include Tap Dance in America withGregory Hines, and Star Search. She has also performed with many great jazz musicians, including Slide Hampton,David “Fathead” Newman, Robin Eubanks, and Kenny Washington. Ms. Oliver was recently guest soloist with The River City Brass, one of the nation’s premier brass bands, and will join the band again on tour this summer.

She has conducted lectures and demonstrations for the Lincoln Center and New York City Public Schools.Ms. Oliver is the producer of seven CDs, “Tap Music forTap Dancers,” that have become a standard tool for dance classes, professional tappers, and students. She also tours locally with the Muhlenberg Jazztap Ensemble at schools and facilities in the Allentown area.

Community Tap classes are designed to provide a unique dance experience that combines rhythmic expression and organic movement. The object of every class is for each student to have fun while learning and developing at their own pace in a supportive environment. Three levels of tap dance allow students to determine the degree of challenge that they enjoy while experiencing this American artform.

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Banner above: Muhlenberg tap dancers perform "3 EZ Pieces" choreogrphed by Shelley Oliver
and appompanied by the David Leonhardt Trio in Master Choreographers 2008

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The Muhlenberg Community Dance Center. The Muhlenberg College Department of Theatre and Dance offers the Lehigh Valley Community a complete schedule of high quality, non-credit dance and movement education courses for people of all ages through three programs: Tap Dance with Shelley Oliver, The Pilates Center, and the Muhlenberg Community Dance Center. Classes are offered in state of the art facilities located in the Trexler Pavilion Dance Studios or the Pilates Center and Dance Clinic in the Life Sports Center.