

Casey Tessier (Artistic Director, Accenτap) is a tap dance artist and award-winning percussionist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Based in Oakland, California, she has performed as a tap dancer and jazz percussionist in Italy, Mexico, Canada, and throughout the United States. Tessier has devoted her life to honoring, sharing, and innovating percussive dance as a medium to represent, communicate, and inspire immersive experiences in rhythm. Holding a B.S. in Pure Mathematics and Latin from the University of New Mexico, her studies continuously inform the creative direction of her debut company, Accenτap, rooted in the interdisciplinary veneration of vernacular jazz traditions and the African Diaspora.
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