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Kat Richter

KAT RICHTER holds an M.A. in Dance Anthropology and is the Founder and Artistic Director of Philadelphia’s premiere all-female tap company, The Lady Hoofers. She is also on faculty at Stockton University where she teaches all levels of tap technique in addition to Dance History and Dance & Culture. Her choreography has twice been selected for the Koresh Come Together Dance Festival and presented in both Philadelphia and London, where she was also a regular performer at the London Tap Jam. Kat has presented her research at the annual meetings of the Dance Studies Association and the Society for Ethnomusicology. She also writes a regular higher education column for Dance Magazine and serves as a dance critic for the Philadelphia Dance Journal.