Margaret Morrison is a rhythm tap soloist, choreographer, playwright, and researcher who teaches and performs across the United States, Europe and Brazil. In 2019 she will receive the Flo-Bert Life Achievement Award for her contributions to Tap. Margaret has been called “feather-footed and musically astute” by the New York Times, and has worked for over thirty years in multi-discipline collaborations with percussionists, poets, musicians, and dancers. Her current performance and writing projects explore race, gender, and social meaning in tap dance history. She wrote and starred in her first play, Home In Her Heart, an interracial lesbian love story, directed by Cheryl King. Margaret has toured as a tap soloist to Armenia, Romania, and Moscow, hosted by the US Embassy, has guest lectured at universities, and presents her research on women tap dancers at academic conferences. Dance Research Journal and Los Angeles Review of Books have published her research on tap. Her chapter, “Juanita Pitts: Race, Gender and the Female Hoofer” is forthcoming in the anthology Dancing the African Diaspora, edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz.

Performing: Margaret’s performing career began in 1986 when she became a founding member of the American Tap Dance Orchestra, directed by Brenda Bufalino. She toured internationally with the ATDO until 2001 and appeared on the acclaimed PBS-TV Special, Tap Dance in America with Gregory Hines. Margaret also tapped in a national commercial for Seagrams and is a co-creator of Pulsation and Wombapusi, all-women ensembles of tap, percussion, and poetry that performed at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, NYC’s PS 122 and the Nuyorican Poets Café. She frequently performs with her life partner, percussionist Robin Burdulis. Margaret created her first solo tap show in 1997 and in 2002 created “Body of Rhythm,” a collaboration with Jeannie Hill and Max Pollak, for which she was hailed as a "consummate artist who breaks the mold.” Since 2001 she has performed at Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival. Eva Yaa Asantawaa in Dance Magazine called Margaret  “a paragon of exacting control and cool theatricality.”  Jennifer Dunning of the New York Times has called Margaret an “exciting virtuoso dancer," and her choreography "a tour de force" and "the witty highlight of the evening." Margaret’s choreography is performed by professional and youth ensembles around the US and was featured at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall. In 2008, she added playwriting and acting to her creative process and has performed her plays at Stage Left Studio, Symphony Space, and other NYC venues.