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Drama Teaser thomasmarek 348 views DRAMA - love songs and other jazz is Thomas Marek's new tap dance production. Premiere will be march 2012
Footprints Now's the time short thomasmarek 945 views short version of Thomas Marek's solo in Footprints On Stage 2011
Footprints Shim Sham thomasmarek 1,324 views Footprints Students doing the Shim Sham
Footprints Teaser 1 thomasmarek 454 views Footprints live on stage. Kampnagel 2011
Cute thomasmarek 579 views Cute live at Stage Club Hamburg
ORCHESTRA - expansions & dimensions thomasmarek 5,783 views Demo Video zu Thomas Marek´s Tap Dance Production "ORCHESTRA - expansions&dimensions" Live at Kampnagel, Hamburg 2009
The Big Loop "about_tap vol no 2" 2006 thomasmarek 3,832 views Tap Dance Choreography from Thomas Marek´s production "about_tap vol no 2". Featuring Sarah Petronio, Brenda Bufalino, Leela Petronio, Pia Neises, Josh Hilberman & Thomas M...
Solo Thomas Marek Tap Dance thomasmarek 4,075 views Thomas Marek´s Solo in his production "about_tap vol no 2" live at Kampnagel Hamburg, Germany 2006
Commercial for Mobistar, Belgium thomasmarek 4,671 views Tap Dancing for Mobistar, Belgium. Parcour by David Belle.
ARD Sportgala 1996 : Thomas Marek & Friends thomasmarek 13,242 views Thomas Marek choreographed for the 1996 ARD Sportgala this tap dance piece. Featured dancers are Barbara Duffy, Olivia Rosenkrantz, Leela Petronio, Andrea Goodman, Josh Hil...

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Thomas Marek started tap dancing at age 14 and about two years after studying at local dance studios near Stuttgart, Germany he met Brenda Bufalino at a workshop. She quickly became his most influencial teacher in his beginning years. He later also had the opportunity to get to know and to study with tap innovators and old timers like Honi Coles, Cholly Atkins, Chuck Green, Buster Brown, Lon Chaney and Jimmy Slyde.

After finishing school in 1992 and an intensive training period in the USA Thomas Marek became a professional tap dancer, focusing on his own artistic performances and tap dance productions.

In his artistic work Thomas Marek is blending traditional and modern jazz and rhythm tap with contemporary musical and theatrical elements. He is a regular guest in theaters and festivals all over Germany, Europe and the USA.
He performed in Spain, Brazil, Israel, France, in the USA and in many theaters all over Germany and he danced on stage with tap dance masters like Brenda Bufalino, Sarah Petronio, Jimmy Slyde, Gregory Hines and others.
As a tap teacher he works nationally and internationally. He taught at the Internationalen Tanzwochen, Vienna 1996; at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center NYC, the New York City Tap Festival 2005 ; The Herräng Dance Camp 2008, in Israel, France, and Switzerland and of course all over Germany.

His interest for photography started in his teens and after buying a Nikon FG quicly became one of his main hobbies. In the early 1990s he started taking black and white portraits of fellow dancers and theater colleagues, developing them in his own darkroom. By 1997 he got first assignments for shooting promotion photos for theater productions and actors and it slowly became a second profession side by side with his dancing and theater work.
In 2005 Thomas Marek focused even more on photography and he is comissioned to work for a variety of editorial, corporate and fine art.
Today his dancing and his photography go side by side and complement and inspire each other...... His web portfolio can be found at
www.marek-photography.com

In 2007 Thomas Marek founded his new studio "Footprints" in Hamburg, Germany. Footprints serves Thomas Marek as an inter-arts space : a studio for his artistic dance work, for teaching tap dance and as a photostudio.
Infos about tap dance classes at Footprints you will find under www.steptanz-hamburg.de

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Tap Dancer, Choreographer, Teacher, Photographer

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