Tap City Awards Set For This September
The event is Thursday, September 11 at 6:00 PM.
By: Stephi Wild Jun. 16, 2025
The American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF) will present the 2024 and 2025 Tap City Awards on Thursday, September 11 at 6:00 PM at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, 111 Amsterdam Avenue (at 65th Street) in New York City.
This special event will honor recipients of the ATDF Hoofer Awards, Tap Preservation Awards, and inductees into the International Tap Dance Hall of Fame for both 2024 and 2025. The evening will include surprise guests, archival film clips, and live performances, celebrating the rich legacy and vibrant future of tap dance. Honorees will include Dick Van Dyke, Tommy Tune, Lisa La Touche, the late Billy Strayhorn and more. This event is FREE and open to the public, for tickets click https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/2025/09/11/tap-city-awards.
"After the ATDF downsized in 2023, I began to feel the Tap City Awards were way too important to just stop,” said Tony Waag, ATDF Founding Director. “If our art-form is going to survive, we need to continue our commitment of recognizing the major figures who have made significant contributions to the field by honoring their legacies. Having felt very anxious to bring the Awards back, I approached the Library for the Performing Arts, and they agreed. So, a very special thanks goes to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division for their support.”
Tap City Award Recipients
Hoofer Awards
• 2024: Bril Barrett, Josh Hilberman
• 2025: Germaine Goodson, Tap and Tray, Lisa La Touche
International Tap Dance Hall of Fame
• 2024: Billy Strayhorn, Joe Stirling
• 2025: Skip Cunningham, Tommy Tune, Dick Van Dyke
Tap Preservation Awards
• 2024: Gene Medler
• 2025: Kurt Albert & Klaus Bleis
The American Tap Dance Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the preservation and advancement of tap dance as an American art form. Through performances, education, archival initiatives, and annual awards, ATDF honors the art form's past, supports its present, and nurtures its future. Learn more at www.atdf.org
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