Thomas Marek is working as a photographer as well as a tap dancer, choreographer and teacher for tap dance.
His interest for photography started in his teens and after buying a Nikon FG quickly became one of his main hobbies. In the early 1990s he started taking black and white portraits of fellow dancers and theater colleagues, developing them in his own darkroom. By 1997 he got first assignments shooting promotion photos for theater productions and actors and photography slowly became a second profession side by side with his dancing and theater work.
In 2005 Thomas Marek focused even more on his photography and he is comissioned to work for a variety of editorial, corporate and performing arts.
Today his dancing and his photography go side by side and complement and inspire each other......
In his artistic dance and stage work Thomas Marek is blending traditional and modern jazz and rhythm tap with contemporary musical and theatrical elements. He is a regular guest in theaters and festivals all over Germany, Europe and the USA.
He performed in Spain, Brazil, Israel, France, in the USA and in many theaters all over Germany and he danced on stage with tap dance masters like Brenda Bufalino, Sarah Petronio, Jimmy Slyde, Gregory Hines and others.
As a tap teacher he works nationally and internationally. He taught at the Int. Tanzwochen, Vienna 1996; at Steps on Broadway and Broadway Dance Center NYC, the New York City Tap Festival 2005 ; The Herräng Dance Camp 2008, in Israel, France, and Switzerland and of course all over Germany.
To learn more about Thomas Marek´s artistic work please visit : www.thomasmarek.de
In 2007 Thomas Marek founded his new studio "Footprints" in Hamburg, Germany. Footprints serves Thomas Marek as an inter-arts space : a studio for his artistic dance work, for teaching tap dance and as a photostudio.
Infos about tap dance classes at Footprints you will find after the link.....
In 2007 Thomas Marek received a second Prize for the Canon ProFashional Award
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Thomas Marek