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Rosie Radiator
Professional Tap Dancer


Guinness World Champion Tap Dancer, Rosie Radiator is the best known female tap dancer performing in the world today. Her nightclub act “Rosie and the Radiators” and her three performing companies tour and perform throughout Northern California in top professional venues. As the founder of Tap Dance Day (1976) Rosie continues to produce San Francisco’s celebration of National Tap Dance Day, with Rosie’s Tap Jam at the Cannery on May 25th each year. She, and her tap team also perform the ‘Tour de Tap for clean air”(their 25th annual this year), each year to bring attention to the importance of taking public transportation to keep the air cleaner.

Rosie’s studio, the San Francisco Tap Dance Center, is located within Developing Environments Artists community (since 1973) and trains tap teachers and adult tap dancers from throughout the world. It offers the only place in the world for tap dancers to experience built in Electronictap™(Rosie’s invention) and it is also the home of the Award winning Guinness World Champion San Francisco Rad Tap Team.

The Rad Tap© training is considered the ‘State of the art” technique for tap dancing and with her long running national solo commercial for Sunsweet, Rosie enjoys national as well as local acclaim.

The true spirit of San Francisco, Dianne Feinstein Rosie is a real San Francisco treat, Mayor Willie Brown. Rosie Radiator is the innovative inventor of Radical Tap™, Dance Teacher Mag San Francisco’s Tap Dance Guru, Smithsonian Magazine.

www.radtap.com
radtap@radtap.com
1-800-RAD-TAPS