ALFRED DESIO is married to dancer/choreographer Louise Reichlin, and is Associate Director of Los Angeles Choreographers & Dancers. He performs and tours regularly with his show, Zapped Taps(tm)/Alfred Desio. He teaches tap dance at the Colburn School of Performing Arts. He is the inventor of electronic tap, Tap-Tronics(tm). This system allows a tap dancer to play electronic instruments using the sound of the taps as a source. Alfred began 2000 with choreographing and performing Morton Gould's Tap Dance Concerto with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra. He again directed Caution, Men At Work: TAP, which toured to 13 states in the spring of 2000.This summer he adds Santa Monica College to his teaching schedule (Linda Gold, the Chair, met him and they danced together in last year's Horses Mouth), and he travels to Germany in September for one the 2 leading characters in the short film "Two In a Dress Suit."

To link to his website click here: http://www.usc.edu/dept/dance/p3_more.html#ZT