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Shirley Marley, KCYPAS Honorary Member Shirley Marley is pleased to promote the mission of Kansas City Youth Performing Arts Support. For sixty years plus, it has been her lifelong dedication as owner of the prestigious Miller Marley School of Dance and Voice to mentor aspiring young students to follow their dreams, and to pursue careers in the performing arts. Shirley has an international reputation as a former Master Tap instructor. She has traveled and studied extensively with noted teachers that include Ron Lewis: Major Las Vegas choreographer, Gus Giordano: Modem Jazz; Chicago, Illinois, Buster Cooper: Modem Jazz; Dallas, Texas, Bill Graham: Tap; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Luigi: Luigi Jazz Center, New York City and the Classical Ballet: London Dance Center, London, England. Shirley spent many years attending the St. Louis Tap Festival where she studied with tap greats Savion Glover, Gregory Hines and Henry Le Tang and Robert Reed. For nineteen years she served as the Founding Director of the Kansas City Chiefettes and for nine years as the Resident Children's Choreographer at Starlight Theatre. It is not unusual to read a biography in a Broadway Playbill in which an actor or actress thanks Shirley, is a Kansas City icon whose name is synonymous with "tap." She has touched the lives of thousands of students, many of whom credit her as the person who most significantly contributed to their professional success. "Setting others up for success is the greatest gift we can give as well as receive." |
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