When Ellie first landed in NYC at age 18, her first professional tap class was at Henry LeTang’s, a funky studio on West 54th Street. Henry taught by a series of routines, each more difficult, stylistically different and challenging than the one before.

His routines are designed to make students phenomenal tappers while increasing endurance and expanding technical abilities. The Exercises were tucked in the middle of all his routines and are technique driven and less about style or choreography.