You are cordially invited to join us for the world premiere showcase of a new tap work created by Michael J. Love, 2025-26 Baker Artist in Residence. 

Cast

Michael J. Love — Baker Artist in Residence 

Robyn Watson — Faculty Member & Guest Artist 

Jeffrey Clark Jr. — Guest Artist 

Lisa La Touche — Guest Artist

Kaleena Miller — Guest Artist 

Bryn Cohn ’28

Ashley Dietrich ’28

Zachary Huseman ’26

Zoe Maxwell ’29

Natalie Ottaviano ’26

Sammie Smith ’27

Ella Tufariello ’29

Sophia Wentz ’27

Zoe Wright ’26

Location

Empie Theatre | Baker Center for the Arts 

Ticketing & Seating 

Tickets are free for all guests. Seating is general admission. 

This residency and showcase were made possible with support from the Dexter F. & Dorothy H. Baker Foundation. 

More About Michael

Michael is an interdisciplinary tap dance artist, scholar, and educator. His embodied research intermixes Black queer feminist theories and aesthetics with a rigorous practice that critically engages the Black cultural past as it imagines Black futurity.

Prior to joining the Dance faculty at Ursinus College, Michael was a 2021-23 Princeton University Arts Fellow and Lecturer in the Program in Dance at Princeton’s Lewis Center for the Arts. Michael holds an M.F.A. in Performance as Public Practice from the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin and is an alumnus of Emerson College.

Michael's credits include the Broadway laboratory for choreographer Savion Glover and director George C. Wolfe’s Shuffle Along…, and roles in works by choreographer Baakari Wilder. Read his full bio here.