Lisa La Touche
Dancer
Lisa La Touche is a distinguished Tap Dance artist and choreographer from New York, with Canadian and Trinidadian ancestry. She merges performance, education, and research, focusing on African Diasporic history. Her Broadway credits include "Shuffle Along," earning accolades such as the Fred Astaire Award and she recently made her debut as a host and tap dancer with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center. La Touche is a former “Armstrong Now” Artist in Residence at the Louis Armstrong House and Museum and currently a research fellow with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation as well as a recipient of the American Tap Dance Foundation’s “Hoofers Award”.
Her creative work emphasizes lineage and folklore, notably in her project “Trinidad & Tap Dance: As Folklore,” developed with Etienne Charles. She has toured with Savion Glover, performed with STOMP, and has directed her own company, Tap Phonics, since 2010. La Touche has worked with institutions such as the National Jazz Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum, Jacob’s Pillow, The Brooklyn Museum and more. She also teaches at PACE University and has works in documentary film making centering Black artists migration history. Above all, she loves being a mom. www.lisalatouche.com
