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Melinda Sullivan (Melinda Loretta Sullivan) was born on 30 September, 1987 in East Meadow, New York, U.S., is an American dancer, choreographer and actress. Discover Melinda Sullivan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 36 years old?

Popular As Melinda Loretta Sullivan
Occupation Choreographer, dancer, actress
Age 36 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 30 September 1987
Birthday 30 September
Birthplace East Meadow, New York, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1920

Shiovitz wrote that the duo is part of a tradition dating to the 1920s, when jazz music and tap dancing developed in parallel, each “crucial to the other’s evolution.” The 1921 broadway show Shuffle Along cemented the trend and the 1984 film The Cotton Club furthered it.

1925

As a high school senior, she won a role in the Cats 25th anniversary touring company, followed by the inaugural national tour of High School Musical on Stage!.

1987

Melinda Sullivan (born September 30, 1987) is an American dancer, choreographer and actress.

2000

“Since the early 2000s, however, this collaboration has gone more underground; Goldings and Sullivan’s platform marks a resurgence in its public visibility.”

Goldings credited Sullivan with having "all the skills of a great jazz instrumentalist."

Jazz journalist Allen Morrison called them a new kind of jazz piano trio, with Goldings covering piano and bass and Sullivan, performing on a portable board, serving as percussionist.

The two are working on an album slated in 2024 for Colorfield Records.

In addition to traditional tap, Sullivan is experimenting with socks, bare feet, sand and gravel.

2009

In 2009, she played Zoe Finn in the American soap opera As the World Turns.

2010

The following year, she finished 9th place in the seventh season of the U.S. version of So You Think You Can Dance; it was the furthest any tap dancer had gone on the show until fellow tap contestant Aaron Turner finally topped her record in Season 10.

2011

In 2011, Sullivan toured with Jason Samuels Smith's A.C.G.I. troupe, which blended an improvisational style with traditional dance choreography.

2012

She is known for her work on the U.S. version of So You Think You Can Dance, where she was a finalist in the television series' seventh season, and as the 2012 winner of the Capezio A.C.E. Award.

In 2012, Sullivan's dancing and choreography on her work "Gone" won Dance Teacher magazine's Capezio A.C.E. Award and its $15,000 production budget to create a show in New York.

"In weathered boots and dresses that could have crossed the plains in a covered wagon, six tap dancers not only drill it down with their feet, they use their full bodies to convey loss and grief", wrote Dance Magazine.

"'Gone' is a moody work that blends the drama of modern dance with the heart-pumping thrill of rhythm tap."

2013

That entry, "Gone", debuted in expanded form in New York in August 2013.

Born in East Meadow, New York, and raised in Thousand Oaks, California, Sullivan began tap dancing at a studio at age four, turning professional at age 14.

"As a young girl, I found the freedom to be loud. To be brash. To be different than my family. Tap dancing allows me to express my artistic side, my creative side, my funny side, my rebellious side."

Her mentors included Jason Samuels Smith and Chloe Arnold.

The magazine named her among the "25 to Watch" for 2013.

An expanded version, Gone: A Sound and Theater Project, debuted at New York's Ailey Citigroup Theater on August 5, 2013, with a new score by Nikos Syropoulos.

New York Times dance critic Brian Seibert noted Sullivan's aim of bridging two schools of tap dancing, rooted respectively in jazz and musical theater, and called it "a worthy goal" of admirable ambition, but felt that the story didn't cohere and the choreography was uneven.

He called Sullivan's depiction of her grandmother as a young woman and a flashback set in Central Park "the work’s best scene. Here Ms. Sullivan, with a sly smile and a sense of wonder, is at her most engaging, and her choreography—setting the romantic duet amid interference by her six-member female ensemble—captures some of the playful joy of the musical-theater tradition."

Seibert concluded that "what Ms. Sullivan is trying is very hard. The flaws of 'Gone' are no reason she shouldn't keep going."

2016

In 2016, she danced in the film La La Land's opening number, "Another Day of Sun", which was shot at the interchange of the Interstate 105 and 110 freeways.

2017

In December 2017, she was one of a quartet of female dancers in Michelle Dorrance's Until the Real Thing Comes Along (a letter to ourselves), which debuted at New York's Joyce Theater.

New York Times dance critic Gia Kourlas called Dorrance's collaborators—Sullivan, Jillian Meyers, and Josette Wiggan-Freund—"three singular and rhythmically brilliant dancers who are part of the traditional tap scene, but who also live in the commercial world."

In 2021 at the height of the Covid lockdowns, Sullivan and jazz pianist Larry Goldings formed a duet.

They first posted their improvisational rendition of Somewhere for a virtual party honoring Sullivan’s father-in-law.

They returned to Goldings’ home studio and backyard to do more, posting to their respective social media pages and generating online conversations “among jazz musicians, tap dancers and more mainstream music enthusiasts, with the likes of Sheila E., Robert Glasper, and Questlove chiming in,” wrote Brynn Shiovitz in the Los Angeles Times.

As Covid restrictions lifted the following year, the pair began performing live.

“Drawing from the worlds of jazz music, funk, commercial dance and underground tap, their eclectic collaboration has amassed them a dedicated fan club over Instagram and Patreon, who seek out their improvised magic in clubs all over Southern California.”