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DocuSign Envelope ID:06711178-0E3F-4541-A834-A91 FC422F4D1 <br /> Gene Medler Resume <br /> NC Youth Tap Ensemble's artistic director <br /> Gene Medler is founder and director of the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble (NCYTE) and <br /> director of the North Carolina Rhythm Tap Festival. He teaches in the Department of <br /> Performing Arts at Elon University. Mr. Medler's previous teaching credits include Duke <br /> University and Meredith College. He is on the faculty at The Ballet School of Chapel Hill and has <br /> taught master classes at the tap festivals in the U.S. and worldwide. <br /> • <br /> Gene was an athlete for most of his life, playing baseball, basketball, and track in middle and <br /> high school and then fencing at the University of North Carolina. Between undergraduate and <br /> graduate school he got interested in acting which led to dance classes and ultimately tap dance <br /> class. Loving movement for its own sake and having always wanted to learn to play an <br /> instrument,tap dancing was the perfect art form for him. <br /> He was fortunate to be learning when many of the old masters were starting to teach again. <br /> Gene worked with masters like Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, Charles "Honi" Coles, Cholly Atkins, <br /> Bunny Briggs, and contemporaries like Brenda Bufalino, Sam Weber and Savion Glover. His <br /> passion for tap dancing coupled with his desire to teach led to the creation of NCYTE. <br /> Selected career highlights include: <br /> • Appearance in Duke Ellington's Nutcracker at Page Auditorium, Duke University& Memorial <br /> Hall, UNC <br /> • Appearance in Ellington's David Danced, Duke Chapel <br /> • "Poor Butterfly" soft shoe choreo-graphed by Brenda Buffalino at Colorado Dance Festival <br /> • Appearance in Great Tap Reunion (Boston), Charles 'Honi" Cole choreography <br /> • Appearance with the Squirrel Nut Zippers <br /> • Appearance with Brenda Bufalino,World Dance Festival New York City <br /> • Grants from the Durham Arts Council,the North Carolina Arts Council and the Orange County <br /> Arts Commission <br /> • Featured in Dance Teacher Now magazine <br /> • Featured in Southern Living magazine <br /> • Received the 1998 Indy Award for contribution to the arts from Independent Magazine <br /> • Profiled in the September/October 2001 Carolina Alumni Review <br /> • Named Tar Heel of the Week by the News and Observer <br /> • Seen nationwide in PBS special,Juba! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance <br />