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Under the direction of international tap artist Steve Zee, LA Ironworks’ professional company, including leading tap dancers and musicians, and the LA Ironworks Youth Performance Group have been featured in performances at the El Portal Theater, the Madrid Theater, the Holiday Festival at Pershing Square, the Dance Arts Academy, the Los Angeles Film Festival and the LA Tapfest.

The Youth Performance Group has also performed several in-school lecture-demonstrations, sharing the history of tap and their personal stories with school children in Los Angeles.

LA Ironworks is soon to publish its first oral history focusing on Broadway and Hollywood hoofer and Emmy Award-winning producer-director, Robert Scheerer. Bob was under contract to Universal Pictures as a singing and dancing youngster alongside Donald O’Connor. He moved to Broadway where he worked with Carol Channing, Gower Champion, Bob Fosse and others, and served out his career working in Hollywood with countless stars including Fred Astaire, Danny Kaye, Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Barbra Streisand, Richard Harris and Sammy Davis, Jr.

LA Ironworks’ distinguished faculty continues to perform and teach in the United States and abroad.