Julia On Tap

Julia On Tap is a dance studio in Somerville, Massachusetts, offering adult tap classes, workshops, and tap events across the greater Boston area. Instruction is led by Julia Boynton, who teaches at the Deborah Mason Performing Arts Center on Somerville Avenue. Classes are grouped by experience level, from Absolute Beginner and Beyond Beginner sessions through Continuing Beginner, Fast Beginner, Relaxed Intermediate, Fast Intermediate, and an open Intermediate/Advanced class. Some classes require no registration and are offered as drop-in sessions, while others run as multi-week courses. Beginner students are advised on tap shoe brands including Bloch, Leo's, SoDanca, and Capezio, and on fitting shoes with thin socks; Dancer's Image in Newton and Teddy Shoes in Cambridge are named as area stores. The studio holds a rating of 5.00.

Julia Boynton produces and directs Beantown Tapfest, an event the Boston Globe described as making clear that tap dance is alive and kicking in Boston. She has served as a faculty member with the Harvard Dance Program, MIT Music and Theater Arts, the Boston Conservatory Dance and Theater Divisions, Emerson College's Performing Arts Department, Leon Collins Dance Studio, and Jeannette Neill Dance Studio. She has been a guest teacher with The Jazz Project at Jacob's Pillow, the New Orleans Center for the Performing Arts, the Florida Dance Festival, Danzas Granada in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, the Jazz & Tap Festival in Monterrey, Mexico, and Promenade Estudio de Danca in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She is a director and co-founder of Boston Percussive Dance, and has performed as a company member with All-Tap Revue, Stop Time New England Jazz-Tap Quartet, and Manhattan Tap.

The studio sits on Somerville Avenue at the Deborah Mason Performing Arts Center, a short walk from the Somerville Fire Department and 11 Miller Street Studios, and about a fifth of a mile from West Conway Park and Beacon Street.

Julia On Tap holds a 5.00 rating from the customers who have reviewed it.

For adult tap dancers in Somerville, Julia On Tap pairs leveled classes and drop-in sessions with an instructor whose teaching and performing credits span Boston's conservatories, Harvard, and MIT.