The Elevated Tap Company (ETC) was founded in 2021 by Erica Phillips during the world pandemic of COVID-19 with the vision to share her passion for Tap Dance with the wider community. Erica is a happily married, mum of two. Erica has been very lucky to have had the opportunity to work in a variety of creative roles over the past 26 years and now works full time as a Teaching Assistant in the SEN department at our local secondary school alongside being a part of the Tap Faculty at Mainstage Performing Arts in Wimborne, where she teaches ISTD graded and vocational Tap syllabus classes and running non-syllabus classes Tap Classes at Shaftesbury Arts Centre.

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IDO WORLD TAP CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025

Between 22nd and 26th October Erica and two of her Mainstage Performing Arts students Jude and Nell shall be making there way to Prague for the IDO World Tap Championships as part of Team GB with Tap Attack.

Nell will be competing in Junior Category with a Duo, Small Group and Formation, Jude will be competing in Adult 1 Category with a Male Solo and Trio and I will be competing in Adult 2 Category with a Small Group.

A huge thank you to our Adult 2 Group Choreographer James Doubtfire, all of the TA faculty, our sponsors, family and supporters for making this possible.

You can read more about Jude & Nell’s achievements in last years World Tap Championships on our Student Success Page.

Photographs courtesy of Deborah Hurst Photograph and
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