Welcome to the website of tap dancer & artist Thomas Marek. Here you´ll find information about recent tap dance projects, performance dates and workshops. Thomas Marek is also working as a photographer and his web portfolio can be seen at
www.marek-photography.com
Thomas Marek has been
working as a professional tap dancer and choreographer since the early 1990s.
In his work he is blending traditional jazz and rhythm tap with contemporary
musical and theatrical elements. He gained an international reputation as a tap dancer and tap choreographer and his work was performed in New York, Brasil, Israel, France and in many theaters in Europe and of course all over Germany.
In 2007 Thomas Marek founded his new studio "Footprints" in Hamburg, Germany. Footprints serves Thomas Marek as an inter-arts space : a studio for his artistic dance work, for teaching tap dance and as a photostudio.
Infos about tap dance classes at Footprints you will find after the link.....
„Thomas
Marek is a wolf of a dancer. Tall, rangy, feet apart, he gives the floor a
resonant thrashing. Don't think just complex shuffles and brushes; think
kicking a stone down the block“
The
Village Voice, New York 2005
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NEWS :
"ORCHESTRA - expansions & dimensions" will perform at Kampnagel from the March 25th through March 28th 2010. Infos & tickets at : www.kampnagel.de
Thomas Marek´s latest tap show "ORCHESTRA - expansions & dimensions" had a very successful run at Kampnagel, Hamburg. Find all infos and press reviews here.
Calumet Photographic did an interview with Thomas Marek in their quarterly published magazine "Focus". The PDF can be seen here.....
New Web Portfolio & Images !!!