Annette Walker
Annette Walker is a tap dancer based in the UK who works with jazz musicians as well as with other dancers and performing artists. She has performed in numerous cabarets, festivals and special concerts such as ‘Turned on Tap’ at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre (London UK) and featured as a tap soloist in the 2019 BBC Proms Ellington’s Sacred Music that was broadcast worldwide on BBC radio and nationally on television. In teaching, she has hosted the Renegade Stage – a workshop introducing tap dancers to improvising at the jam – at the London Tap Jam since it started in 2006. Her unique Tap Dance Programme is built on years of knowledge and experience from working in dance schools, colleges and music organisations. Annette is a researcher and educator in tap history and is currently undertaking PhD research on the forgotten jazz choreographer, Buddy Bradley.