Anthony morigerato biography

Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer.
Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, content creator, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer.
I am a tap dancer, Emmy nominated choreographer, filmmaker, creative director, and educator.

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Matt & Anthony

Act

Singer and Tap Dancer

Position Reached

Quarterfinalist

Matt & Anthony, also known as Anthony and Matt, was a singer and tap dancer from Season 4of America's Got Talent. The duo was eliminated in the Quarterfinals.

Background[]

The “Matt and Anthony” duet includes Matt Lucas, a native of Grove City, Pennsylvania, and Anthony Morigerato, a native of Albany, New York, who met at Marymount Manhattan College in 2004 as roommates.

Lucas was going for his bachelor’s in writing for the stage; Morigerato, for dance. It wasn’t long before the two realized that they could combine talents. "One day I was playing my guitar and he had his tap shoes, and he struck a moment to dance," Lucas said. Lucas and Morigerato found they had the same taste in music, mainly old-style rhythm and blues.

Their Matt and Anthony act--with Morigerato tap dancing and Lucas on vocals and guitar--“morphed” out of A.M. Dance Project, which Morigerato began in 2005. With Morigerato as artistic director and Lucas as musical director, A.M.--Morigerato’s initials--includes s

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Anthony Morigerato is a tap dancer, producer, director, writer, and Emmy nominated choreographer. Anthony is the executive producer and artistic director for AM Dance Productions, an award winning film and dance theater production company.

In 2014, Anthony founded and is currently the co-director and managing partner of Operation: Tap, an online forum that is dedicated to immersing tap dancing into the public’s consciousness. He has appeared as a choreographer and/or a performer on television shows including The Tony Danza Show, America’s Got Talent, The Arsenio Hall Show, and So You Think You Can Dance, for which he received an Emmy Nomination. Anthony holds the world record for “most tap sounds in one minute” having made 1,163 sounds.

Anthony is an accomplished dancer in multiple disciplines, having trained at Marymount Manhattan College, where he performed the works of Robert Battle, Elizabeth Higgins, Jiri Kylian, David Parsons, Katie Langan and William Soleu. He has recently participated in choreographic residencies at Marymount Manhattan C

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thatgirl caught up with Tap Dancer, Choreographer Anthony Morigerato for his very first interview about Operation: Tap, an online forum for dancers, artists, students, teachers, choreographers and enthusiasts of tap dancing. Operation: Tap was conceived by Morigerato and launched yesterday via Facebook. The mission of Operation: Tap is not only to raise the funds to support Tap projects created by its contributors, but to create a global community of people committed to making "the world a more Tap conscious place." The Operation: Tap program will include: weekly debates, video sharing, mission deployments and musicality and or technique exercises with online classes soon to follow in 2015.

thatgirl: What was the most difficult aspect of deciding to create Operation: Tap?

Anthony Morigerato:I think my deciding to start Operation: Tap is born out of a

frustration with the way tap is perceived and received by the general public.

TG: I've heard it said that when we think about what we want to achieve, we often aim we