Mendonca, Mark

Tap Dancer/Choreographer, Mark Mendonca is the co-director of the Los Angeles based dance company, Dance Electric. Mark's extensive performing career includes performing for the last three U.S. Presidents, on Broadway and television, and concert stages all around the world. Mark was chosen to open Barbra Streisand's final four live concerts performed at the Staples Center in Los Angeles and Madison Square Garden in New York. On Broadway, Mark danced in the Tony award winning production of "Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk", and has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Apollo Theater, the Biennale de la Danse in Lyon, France, the Joyce Theater, and the Riverside Studios in London among others. He has shared the stage with tap greats the Nicholas Brothers, Jimmy Slyde and the late tap masters Charles 'Honi' Coles, Eddie Brown, Steve Condos and Chuck Green as well as numerous appearances with Gregory Hines, appearing with him in "A Gala for the President at Ford's Theatre" and on "The Kennedy Center Honors," both televised on ABC. Mark's dancing was featured in the nationally televised documentary "Juba, The Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance," aired on PBS. Mark was the first tap dancer to receive the Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship for promising young artists (1989) and was the winner of the 1997 Lester Horton Dance Award for outstanding achievement in individual performance. Mark was also the recipient of a Brody Art Fund Artists Fellowship. Over the past decade Mark has taught and performed at festivals in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Alaska, Colorado and Florida among others.

 Mark (tap) has performed is such theatrical successful productions as the Broadway Production of Bring On the Noise Bring on the Funk and well as his performances with the Jazz Tap Ensemble.