Terry Brock’s diverse background includes multiple choreographic works and an international performing and teaching career. She has taught and performed at numerous tap festivals worldwide. She has performed with various symphonies and has created repertory for the Oregon symphony. Terry was a long-term member of the Jazz Tap Ensemble – both as a company member and as a guest artist, dancing alongside Sam Weber and Lynn Dally. She shared the stage with many legendary hoofers, including Gregory Hines, Harold Nicholas, Cholly Atkins, Honi Coles, Steve Condos, Eddie Brown, LaVaughn Robinson, Arthur Duncan, and Brenda Bufalino, as well as a host of contemporary tap artists. Terry is a Fullbright Arts award recipient, teaching tap in the Czech Republic, the Ukraine, and Poland in conjunction with the US Embassy. She has choreographed and collaborated with Mercer Ellington in a tribute show honoring his father, Duke Ellington. Terry is proud to be the conservator of the late Eleanor Powell’s choreography. Ms. Powell’s son, Peter Ford, has bequeathed to Terry Eleanor’s tap shoes, her handwritten comeback show, her travel trunk and numerous other personal treasures belonging to his late mother. Terry’s early dance/performance career was with the Spiral Starecase, whose solid-gold song, “More Today than Yesterday”, is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For over 20 years, Terry was artistic advisor, guest teacher, and choreographer for the Vancouver Tap Society. Her Canadian students were in the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Over the years, her Portland OR students have gone on to Broadway and various dance companies around the world. Terry has staged dinner and musical theater
productions, choreographed both the Mrs. America and Mrs. World productions, and worked as the dance and movement coach for the US Olympic Freestyle Ski Team. In 2024 she was awarded the Hoofer lifetime achievement award from the American Tap Dance Foundation and solo’ed at the Lincoln Center in a tribute for the Foundation. Terry’s passion to perform, choreograph, and train the next generation thrives.