For over 20 years Grant Swift has been bringing tap performance and education to the shores of Melbourne, Australia. A former state boxing champion, Grant now continues with that same drive and determination to better the education and awareness of tap dance in Melbourne, throughout Australia and around the world. He gets flown nationally [...]

A collaboration of some of Australias’ most accomplished and cutting-edge tappers. This unique combination have collectively performed throughout Asia, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Mexico and America.
As a troupe their performance experience working with live musicians such as the Sedegreen Jazz family, Lamine Sonko and King Morang to name but a few makes them one of [...]

Aussie tap stars of the future “Melbourne Youth Tap” (MYT) is a jam-packed troupe of kids taught by Grant Swift. In their show you will see a diverse range of influences going right back to the root of the art form – Africa (see Lamine Sonko). It’s important to know the spirit and soul of what [...]

Melita started learning Classical Ballet and Jazz from Cheryl Witchell and then Tap with Kaye Emmett.  By age 8 she was exposed to both latin American and Ballroom. At age 10 Melita represented Australia in an International Dance tournament, that toured South East Asia, and as a Victorian representative for the South Pacific Ballroom championships. [...]

“The Swift Brothers” - Harry, 12 and Oscar, 10 are the sons of Grant Swift, internationally recognized performer, teacher and tap producer. Inevitably they have inherited the passion for the art form of Tap as they have grown up around Tap, Live Jazz, Reggae music and African song and dance bands.
The Swift Brothers have been [...]

“Better than Tap Dogs, Better than Stomp, Better than Bootmen, Raw Metal is the ultimate entertainment package… they’re brilliant!”
- Townsville Bulletin
“Raw Metal’s idiosyncratic beat makes it hard for audiences to keep still. It’s been dubbed Funk Tap, a noisy, energetic dance which leaves audiences almost as exhausted as the performers.”
- Canberra Times
Raw Metal is Australia’s [...]

Rachel Cusack started tap dancing at the age of 4 along with jazz, contemporary and classical ballet. In 2002 she “came home” concentrating all her energy on tap and commencing study with Grant Swift. Her hard work and talent would see her progress to troupe rehearsals within a year and by 2005 she was a [...]

Christopher Horsey is the winner of the ‘Fred Astaire International Tap Championship’ (Waldorf Astoria, NYC). He has performed in the Frank Sinatra Concert, and alongside Stevie Wonder in ‘Quincy Jones, 50 years In The Business’. Original cast ‘42nd St’, ‘Chicago - The Musical’ and ‘Singin In The Rain’, Chris also created the role of Tip [...]

Shane studied tap in Newcastle with the late Les Griffith, winning his first tap championship at age seven. Tap is now his forte (25 years experience), Shane trained in Jazz, modern, classical and acrobatics as a child. During his career so far Shane competed in countless eisteddfods and danced in two Fred Astaire Performing Arts [...]

Red Hot Rhythm - Tap with a Touch of Class.
Featuring a troupe of Queensland’s best performers, RHR aims to push the boundaries of tap dance in Australia through experimentation with the art form in new and unique ways, such as the incorporation of aspects of Celtic and African culture. In addition to this, RHR aspires [...]

By the time Calisha was 3 years old she had moved from her country of birth New Zealand to Melbourne and did private tap dance lessons with Grant Swift. Over the next ten years Calisha and Grant developed into Australia’s real-life version of Hollywoods’ Bill Bojangles and Shirley Temple.
They progressed to be a unique [...]

*TAP SPECIALIST *TEACHER *CHOREOGRAPHER *DANCER *DRUMMER *COLUMNIST *ADJUDICATOR
 Christine is the creator of Tapatak Oz - the recently launched series of instructional tap dance DVDs which is taking Australia by storm and being hailed as one of the most comprehensive and easy to use tap systems of its kind!
Having studied as a child with her mother [...]

Winston has a strong creative flair in music and dance. At the young age of 17 he achieved his Licenciate Diploma (L Mus.A) and since 2005, has danced professionally.
He has danced at many events and venues including Peter Nortons’ Symphony Space on Broadway in New York, St. Regis Hotel in Singapore, FINA World [...]

Thomas Wadelton has arguably the most educated feet in Australia. At such a prime age Thomas can’t get enough of tap, taking and learning from whoever and wherever he can.
Beginning at age 4, Thomas took his first tap lessons and later on learnt from former Tap Dog Chris Horsey. He started learning from Grant Swift [...]

Hai Duy Nguyen is claimed to be the first Vietnamese tap dancer in Vietnam.
He has trained in Paris and New York City. His world-renown teachers include
Savion Glover and Jason Samuels Smith.
Nguyen also inspires from Fred Astaire, Gregory Hines and many others.
He can tap to classical, jazz, pop, bluegrass,
hiphop or as a solo ‘instrument’.
Visit www.haiduynguyen.com