08/30/2026
🚨 Pop Up Master Classes Alert—
Open to the Public!
✨️ Jesse Berry joined the professional tap dance company “Tapestry” in Austin, Texas in 2016 where he spent the next 7 years as a principal dancer. Under the direction of Acia Gray, Jesse performed in many original Tapestry Dance Company shows including, “One Step at a Time”, “Of Mice and Music – A Jazz Tap Nutcracker”, “Listen”, “Just Tap”, “April Fools”, “Sound and Silence”, “The Souls of Our Feet”, and the tour of “Passing it Forward, the American Dream?”. As a soloist, Jesse has perfored in multiple cities throughout the US and in 2018 he was invited to Qingdao, China where he and guitarist, Charles Rangel performed over 100 shows in just 36 days. On top of his performance career, Jesse has traveled both nationally and internationally teaching the art of tap dance with an emphasis on its relationship to music, where his works have received recognition on both the regional and national scale. He has worked for various conventions and workshops including Dance Masters of America, All Out Dance Competition, and Sole to Soul tap festival to name a few. He also teaches at Broadway Dance Center.
✨️ Mariah Reives grew up in Dance Masters of America and won Petite Miss Dance of America as well as the state titles for Carolina Dance Masters Chapter 15. She then went on to train at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts for high school, and then graduated from Marymount Manhattan College with a B.A. in Teaching Dance Arts. She is currently playing Liz in the longest running Broadway show- CHICAGO. Her favorite credits include The Great Gatsby on Broadway, Funny Girl Broadway, and Cassandra in the First National Tour of ‘Cats’ The Musical. She has been seen on television for The Tony Awards, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and most recently The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon dancing for the release of Taylor Swift’s new album “The Life of a Showgirl." She is also on faculty at Broadway Dance Center. Reives created a professional workshop for aspiring artists called ‘The Performers Circle' and is excited to guide the next generation of Broadway stars!
