Tony Waag
Artist
TONY WAAG (ATDF Founding Artistic Director) is a dancer, director, producer, choreographer, teacher, filmmaker, and speaker whose work has played a pivotal role in the preservation and evolution of tap dance for more than four decades. In 2001, he created Tap City, the annual New York City Tap Festival and in 2010, he opened the American Tap Dance Center where he directed on-going education programs for tappers of all ages and levels for 14 years. In 2014, he received the Dance Magazine Award for his unique contributions to the dance field, and in 2024 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award for his more than 40 years of service, leadership, and inspiration to the tap community. Most recently Mr. Waag donated his entire archives to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library at the Lincoln Center, NYC.
