Lesley J. Lockery

Choreographer/Director/Tap Dance Instructor

Artistic Director

Lesley’s Tap Dancing emulates the styles of our classic Broadway & Hollywood Movie Musicals.  Along with her sister Patricia, she recreates the styles of such legendary performers & choreographers such as…Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Gene Kelly, Eleanor Powell, Robert Alton, and Hermes Pan, etc….preserving original works and creating new choreography.

On Broadway, Lesley’s work appeared in Tommy Tune Tonite! at the Gershwin Theater.  She has choreographed special routines for the Manhattan Rhythm Kings, as well as Tony Award winner Helen Gallagher. While working for Lee Theodore, Lesley choreographed for the American Dance Machine and worked  with fellow choreographer Robert Tucker on the Dance concert American Snap.  Film audiences have seen her choreography in the film Miss Firecracker starring Holly Hunter.

 For television she choreographed special material for the Dr. Ruth Show dealing with teenagers in the performing arts.  She choreographed the Off-Broadway revue It Feels So Good to Be Alive, as well as the cabaret show Judy in Concert. In regional theatre she created new choreography for Anything Goes at Tulane Summer Theatre, and as well as choreographing, she was assistant/director of La Cage Aux Folles at the Showboat Dinner Theatre in Tampa. Her industrial work includes an industrial film for Polygram Records as well as a Japanese industrial for Geoffrey Beene.

Teaching credits include: Tap classes for Steps Studios in NYC for ten years,  Lee Theodore’s - The American Dance Machine  &  Marymount College.  She also taught classes at the New Dance Group, NYC. She is currently teaching Tap Classes at Steps and a Tap Choreography Workshop at AMDA, NYC.  When not choreographing, Lesley teaches master tap classes in New York City and has also been a guest instructor throughout the U.S., Japan, and Europe.

Patricia Lockery

Performer/Choreographer/Theatre Dance Instructor

Artistic Director

Patricia’s focus is on the preservation and instruction of the choreographic styles of the American Musical Theatre & Movie Musicals, reconstructing works by Fosse, Jerome Robbins, Peter Gennaro, Michael Kidd, Agnes DeMille, etc.

Patricia is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and Screen Actors’ Guild of America. She has performed in the New York City Opera Production of The Most Happy Fella at Lincoln Center. She has toured with the 1st national Companies of: Tommy Tunes’ A Day In Hollywood/A Night In the Ukraine as Mascha the maid and the famous dancing feet, 42nd Street (Original Production) with Dolores Grey and Barry Nelson, and assisted choreographer Peter Gennaro on Singin’ In the Rain.

She has been dance captain for Gershwins’ Lady Be Good in which she also understudied and performed the role of Susie Trevor, and for the Goodspeed Opera House production of Fiorello. She has been a featured dancer in the productions of Ankles Aweigh and American Snap. Some other shows include: My One and Only, Funny Girl, Annie, and Guys and Dolls.  One of her favorite experiences was performing a solo tap routine with her sister Lesley Lockery and Broadway veteran performer Helen Gallagher in the Broadway Cares Tribute to Helen Hayes in NYC.  Patricia recently choreographed for Liza Minnelli & Tony Danza on The Tony Danza Show for ABC, & was assistant to Director and Choreographer Karin Baker on the musical revue Star Spangled Rhythm.

Teaching credits include: Theatre Dance classes for Lee Theodore's The American Dance Machine, & Marymount College, NYC. Tap Classes for Steps Dance Studio,  Luigi style class at Luigi’s Jazz Center and Theatre Dance and Tap at various private workshops alongside her sister, Lesley J. Lockery.  Patricia is currently teaching Theatre Dance at Steps Studio and a Tap Workshop at AMDA, NYC.

NYC’s Dance Makers, Inc. 

Lesley, along with her sister Patricia are the Artistic Directors for NYC’s Dance Makers.  a new Musical Theatre Dance Company which had their debut demo/performance on Oct. 1^st, 2006.  Additional performances include February 3^rd & 4^th in NYC and performances on May 8^th & 9^th at “Theatre Three”, NYC.  Their mission is to reconstruct & recreate choreographic pieces from past Broadway & Movie Musicals using aspiring young performers along side with seasoned professionals.