About
Brief info
As well as being founder and director of the annual Australian Tap Dance Festival, Winston Morrison has had the pleasure of performing solo internationally at the Montreal Tap Festival, New York City Tap Festival, and teaching masterclasses at New York's Broadway Dance Centre. He has had the pleasure of teaching workshops worldwide in Italy, France, Austria, Croatia, Czech, UK, New Zealand, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, United states and Canada.
Originally from Melbourne, Winston started working professionally as a tap dancer since 2005 under the mentorship of Grant Swift and did a few 3 month travels to USA to train tap dance. He also had explored other street dance styles and latin partner dancing. In 2017 he started training all dance styles with Rob Sturrock and joined his cabaret spectaculars Latonga (Latin and Tribal fusion) and French Twist. He continued dance training on the Gold Coast with full time training at Launch Performing Arts Centre, performed at the Lord Mayors Carol's (Brisbane 2019), and joined the troupe Those Tap Guys.
Winston has been a tap columnist for Dance-Train magazine and presented instructionals for Dance-Infoma magazine. He has appeared on television and radio representing tap dance on shows like Channel 9's Kids WB, ABC's Studio 3 and Australia's Got Talent. Other festival performances include the Wangaratta Jazz Festival, St Kilda Festival, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Spiegeltent. Other credits include Commonwealth Bank "you can tap" campaign, 'Sammi D' - a Jazz Tap musical, Parisian Rendezvous, , Masters of Choreography's Once Upon a Time, Beacon the Musical which he co-created with Kricket Forster in 2014, as well as many corporate events.
Winston's performance and teachings aim to share a deeper sound and movement experience influenced by a range of masters, music and dance styles.