Justin Boccitto & Dani Champagne - Denver, CO

Justin Boccitto & Dani Champagne
Common Ground
Denver, CO - Specialists
commonground.millerandben@gmail.com

Justin Boccitto

Justin is an international theatre and tap dance instructor and with credits including at Broadway Dance Center, Marymount Manhattan College, The Juilliard School, NYU, The Pulse, Steps on Broadway, and Broadway Artists Alliance. His students have included Lady Gaga, Adam Chanler-Berat (Next to Normal, Peter and the Starcatcher), Sophia Anne Caruso (Beetlejuice, NBC’s Sound of Music), and Sean Fosse (grandson of the late Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon). He was also asked to teach Stephen Colbert how to tap dance and appeared as a coach on MTV's MADE. He currently tours the country conducting master classes through his project, Common Ground, co-created by Germaine Salsberg.

Dani Champagne

Dani Champagne is a NYC based performer and dance instructor trained in all styles, specializing in tap dance. Dani has performed with Demi Remick & Dancers, toured the east coast with DrumatiX dance company and acted as dance captain while with the Boston Tap Company. She has been featured in works across NYC at venues such as Arts On Site, American Tap Dance Foundation, Symphony Space, Emerging Choreographer Series at LPAC, and the performance lab at Steps On Broadway. Dani has worked and trained closely with tap dance artists, Dianne Walker and Derick Grant. She is currently on the tap faculty at Common Ground in NYC & traveling the country instructing their masterclass series. She also holds roles at Broadway Dance Center as a tap instructor & assistant and has taught at Mark Morris. In addition, Dani is on staff as the Workshop Coordinator for Common Ground where she is in charge of scheduling & organizing their out-of-town workshops. She continues to share her love and knowledge of tap dance by choreographing and working with private students across the country.

Dani is proud to be a Co-Creator of the new found tap company, ACM Collective.

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