NYC tap dancer and DJ Liberty Styles brings you an evening of tap dance and collaboration. Featuring London-based musicians Adam Parry-Davies (keys, electronics) and Josh Vadiveloo (double bass, electronics) An evening of improvised tap dance and electronics rooted in the jazz tradition.
Liberty Styles (they/them) is a tap dancer, electronic musician, and performer based in NYC. Satire, collaged sound, drag, and rhythmic improvisation are all pillars of their practice. Their research engages with histories of tap dance and queer performance art, drawing connections between embodied rhythm, nightlife, and experimental sound as sites of memory, mischief, survival, and futurity.
Liberty produces and performs sold-out events that bring in collaborators to explore the intersection of tap dance and drag performance. In 2023 they toured the UK as a tap soloist with BBC Jazz Musician of the Year Xhosa Cole and featured on his 2025 album On a Modern Genius Vol. 1.
They also perform regularly across the UK and Europe with artists including Edi May and electronic duo Zyggurat. Liberty has performed in Ayodele Casel’s Diary of a Tap Dancer at the American Repertory Theater, and also collaborated extensively with Michela Lerman, Orlando
Hernández, Naomi Funaki, and Ian Berg. Other stage credits include the Guggenheim, New York Live Arts, The Joyce Theater, and the Apollo Theater. Their work has been mentioned in The New York Times, Jazzwise, and Billboard.