JOSH MORRIS began his dance career through his high school football team, taking dance classes to improve agility.  Not only did he excel at it, but he soon found he liked to dance better than to play football, and at 18, he was offered a student teaching position in the tap program at Brigham Young University.  He assisted and taught at BYU until graduation, learning the crucial fundamentals of tap and the building blocks of a successful tap education.  He has shared his love of tap and intricate rhythms with students he's taught throughout Nevada, Utah, California and even Acarj Academia de Artes Ritmicas in Bahia,Brazil. Josh also has a modern dance background, having performed with modern dance company DancEnsemble out of Provo, Utah. Most recently you may have seen Josh performing locally in the rhythm tap company "California Rhythm Project" directed by Pam Thompson.  Josh's style of choreography has been influenced by tap greats Al Gilbert, Colleen West, Linda Sohl-Ellison, Anita Feldman, Sam Weber, Steve Condos, Pam Thompson and Eddie Brown.  He specializes in teaching a broad array of technique steps from the tap masters to empower and strengthen his students in the fundamentals so that they will be able to take class anywhere in the world."

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