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ABOUT ME
Cartier Williams Hoofer,Choreographer,Filmmaker and Performer who hails from Washington, D.C., began his tap dancing career at the age of four. Cartier learned his first tap steps from his grandmother Audrey Williams. At the age of six Cartier performed a piece choreographed by Mýa Cartier won Apollo Kids at The prestigious Apollo Theater Distinguished as one of The Apollo Theater's youngest "Apollo Legends". Later that year Cartier was invited to the Kennedy Center Honors along side Robert Downey Jr. Mr. Williams studied at The Washington School of Ballet under the tutelage of Mary Day. When he was 10 years old, Cartier Co-Starred with Tap Legends Buster Brown, Jimmy Slyde and Dianne Walker in the International tour of FOOTNOTES. Cartier consider it a blessing to have danced and shared the stage with tap pioneers and masters Peg Leg Bates, The Nicholas Brothers, and Gregory Hines. He has performed for 2 U.S. Presidents, and in 1998 Co-Starred in the PBS Special: In Performance at The White House with President Clinton. He toured the U.S. and Japan in the Tony Award Winning BRING IN 'da NOISE, BRING IN 'da FUNK, Co-starring with Savion Glover.He has performed at The Joyce Theatre, New York City Center as well as the L.A Kodak Theatre where he performed The AFI Awards: A Tribute to Tom Hanks. Other appearances include a performance at Usher's birthday bash in New York City performances for the FCC, The CIA, The State Department and Department of Justice. Cartier choreographed and directed CARTIER WILLIAMS RYTHM REFIX in May 2011 at Joe's Pub..Cartier Williams performed with Super-DJ Chew FU at The Palms Hotel/Resort in Las Vegas. Other credits include: National Tap Dance Day at MACYS, Chicago Sinfonetta Orchestra, Phildephia Pops, and New York City Pops Orchestra. In the fall of 2014 Cartier formed his new dance company The Cartier Williams Dance Theatre their credits include: New York Botancial Garderns, Childrens Museum of Manhattan, George Faison's Firehouse Theatre, Lebain New York, and featured in Black Coffee's music video Come With Me sponsored by Smirnorff.
Cartier also perfomed at The Opening of the Cannes Film Festivel for Moulin Rouge. He is also a former student of The New York Film Academy. As a Filmmaker Cartier has written, directed and produced: Phone Bait, The Violinist, and My Love Awaits. He's appeared in Spike Lee's Film Bamboozled and in horror film Tales of Poe released in 2014 directed by Bart Mastronardi & Alan Rowe Kelly now avaiable now on iTunes. Now 27, Cartier is currently in production for his new show ZIGITYBOP! premiering at the Oslo Jazz Festivel and Zurich,Switzerland this summer.
MY PROGRESS
In 2011, I started focusing more on direcing and chreographing. My first start was a sold out performance at the PUBLIC THEATRE'S venue Joe's Pub In New York with a show called RHYTHM REFIX. This show helped me grow tremseloudly,creatively, and mentally as an artist. I was able to embellish the show with some dancers I had worked with in the past and new dancers I admired. I premired the one act version of my show in Zurich,Switzerland with great success. I then was asked to perform excerpts of the show at the Museum of Contempaorty Arts in Chicago in 2014 for the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. I then knew I wanted to have my own dance company and invest my time and personal money on something I believed in. I then created the Cartier Williams Dance Theatre which is a collobration of art forms coming together the foundation of the company being tap, sprinkled in with hip hop, ballet, and modern dance to coexist together. To tell a vareity of stories and to bring everyone together in the dance world to fall in love with tap no matter what their experince was when they came to the theatre to see a performance of mine. My company's first piece was a new adapdation on the children's classic Prokofiev's PETER AND THE WOLF that I premired at The Childrens Museum of Manhattan in 2015. I continued to develop more new works mostly excerpts but now today my newest show is called ZIGITYBOP! which will premire in Oslo Norway August 14, 2017 at the Oslo Jazz Festivel and August 16, 2017 at PLAZA in Zurich, Switzerland.
Oslo Jazz Festival Link
http://www.ticketmaster.no/event/536231
PLAZA KLUB
https://www.facebook.com/events/187785925085170??ti=ia
MY GOAL
The reason for me creating this gofundme campagin is to bring this production to my hometown of Washington D.C. where I started tapping first. Unfornately the oppuritinty has not come to frutition for me to bring any of my shows to the nations capitiol. Its not easy finding sponsers and investors but this is my reason for creating this gofundme to ask for your help. My goal is to raise $20,000 . The expenses will be used for the rental of the theater,accomdations, paying dancer fees, rehershals, promoting, and bringing my company down to D.C from New York to premire the show ZIGITYBOP! this Fall in D.C. The show is 1hour and 15 min I would like to secure the theater by the end of the summer to arrange things properly for a smooth production for the fall after my summer performances. I would really like to show the people what Ive been doing all these years creating new work and taking risks as a chreographer and director. Bringing my shows to D.C will hopefully bring more opportunities for me to produce more shows. Hopefully in doing so it will help other kids that went to D.C public schools from Southwest, D.C the chance to follow their dreams.
Help me bring my show to D.C hopefully I can bring it to a city near year. Its all orginal straight from the heart.
Here are some other videos of my work:
Showtime at The Apollo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiKnkL6gRmQ&t=5s
Oprah
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDFWGy-pUM
PBS Special : 1998 White House Performance
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtV4WG1ns5M
Zurich Switzerland Tap Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6zLpOmM57I
New York Times Review
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/arts/dance/rhythm-in-motion-an-infectious-dance-celebration.html
ABOUT ME
Cartier Williams Hoofer,Choreographer,Filmmaker and Performer who hails from Washington, D.C., began his tap dancing career at the age of four. Cartier learned his first tap steps from his grandmother Audrey Williams. At the age of six Cartier performed a piece choreographed by Mýa Cartier won Apollo Kids at The prestigious Apollo Theater Distinguished as one of The Apollo Theater's youngest "Apollo Legends". Later that year Cartier was invited to the Kennedy Center Honors along side Robert Downey Jr. Mr. Williams studied at The Washington School of Ballet under the tutelage of Mary Day. When he was 10 years old, Cartier Co-Starred with Tap Legends Buster Brown, Jimmy Slyde and Dianne Walker in the International tour of FOOTNOTES. Cartier consider it a blessing to have danced and shared the stage with tap pioneers and masters Peg Leg Bates, The Nicholas Brothers, and Gregory Hines. He has performed for 2 U.S. Presidents, and in 1998 Co-Starred in the PBS Special: In Performance at The White House with President Clinton. He toured the U.S. and Japan in the Tony Award Winning BRING IN 'da NOISE, BRING IN 'da FUNK, Co-starring with Savion Glover.He has performed at The Joyce Theatre, New York City Center as well as the L.A Kodak Theatre where he performed The AFI Awards: A Tribute to Tom Hanks. Other appearances include a performance at Usher's birthday bash in New York City performances for the FCC, The CIA, The State Department and Department of Justice. Cartier choreographed and directed CARTIER WILLIAMS RYTHM REFIX in May 2011 at Joe's Pub..Cartier Williams performed with Super-DJ Chew FU at The Palms Hotel/Resort in Las Vegas. Other credits include: National Tap Dance Day at MACYS, Chicago Sinfonetta Orchestra, Phildephia Pops, and New York City Pops Orchestra. In the fall of 2014 Cartier formed his new dance company The Cartier Williams Dance Theatre their credits include: New York Botancial Garderns, Childrens Museum of Manhattan, George Faison's Firehouse Theatre, Lebain New York, and featured in Black Coffee's music video Come With Me sponsored by Smirnorff.
Cartier also perfomed at The Opening of the Cannes Film Festivel for Moulin Rouge. He is also a former student of The New York Film Academy. As a Filmmaker Cartier has written, directed and produced: Phone Bait, The Violinist, and My Love Awaits. He's appeared in Spike Lee's Film Bamboozled and in horror film Tales of Poe released in 2014 directed by Bart Mastronardi & Alan Rowe Kelly now avaiable now on iTunes. Now 27, Cartier is currently in production for his new show ZIGITYBOP! premiering at the Oslo Jazz Festivel and Zurich,Switzerland this summer.
MY PROGRESS
In 2011, I started focusing more on direcing and chreographing. My first start was a sold out performance at the PUBLIC THEATRE'S venue Joe's Pub In New York with a show called RHYTHM REFIX. This show helped me grow tremseloudly,creatively, and mentally as an artist. I was able to embellish the show with some dancers I had worked with in the past and new dancers I admired. I premired the one act version of my show in Zurich,Switzerland with great success. I then was asked to perform excerpts of the show at the Museum of Contempaorty Arts in Chicago in 2014 for the Chicago Human Rhythm Project. I then knew I wanted to have my own dance company and invest my time and personal money on something I believed in. I then created the Cartier Williams Dance Theatre which is a collobration of art forms coming together the foundation of the company being tap, sprinkled in with hip hop, ballet, and modern dance to coexist together. To tell a vareity of stories and to bring everyone together in the dance world to fall in love with tap no matter what their experince was when they came to the theatre to see a performance of mine. My company's first piece was a new adapdation on the children's classic Prokofiev's PETER AND THE WOLF that I premired at The Childrens Museum of Manhattan in 2015. I continued to develop more new works mostly excerpts but now today my newest show is called ZIGITYBOP! which will premire in Oslo Norway August 14, 2017 at the Oslo Jazz Festivel and August 16, 2017 at PLAZA in Zurich, Switzerland.
Oslo Jazz Festival Link
http://www.ticketmaster.no/event/536231
PLAZA KLUB
https://www.facebook.com/events/187785925085170??ti=ia
MY GOAL
The reason for me creating this gofundme campagin is to bring this production to my hometown of Washington D.C. where I started tapping first. Unfornately the oppuritinty has not come to frutition for me to bring any of my shows to the nations capitiol. Its not easy finding sponsers and investors but this is my reason for creating this gofundme to ask for your help. My goal is to raise $20,000 . The expenses will be used for the rental of the theater,accomdations, paying dancer fees, rehershals, promoting, and bringing my company down to D.C from New York to premire the show ZIGITYBOP! this Fall in D.C. The show is 1hour and 15 min I would like to secure the theater by the end of the summer to arrange things properly for a smooth production for the fall after my summer performances. I would really like to show the people what Ive been doing all these years creating new work and taking risks as a chreographer and director. Bringing my shows to D.C will hopefully bring more opportunities for me to produce more shows. Hopefully in doing so it will help other kids that went to D.C public schools from Southwest, D.C the chance to follow their dreams.
Help me bring my show to D.C hopefully I can bring it to a city near year. Its all orginal straight from the heart.
Here are some other videos of my work:
Showtime at The Apollo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiKnkL6gRmQ&t=5s
Oprah
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDFWGy-pUM
PBS Special : 1998 White House Performance
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QtV4WG1ns5M
Zurich Switzerland Tap Festival
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6zLpOmM57I
New York Times Review
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/12/arts/dance/rhythm-in-motion-an-infectious-dance-celebration.html
Organizer
Cartier Williams
Organizer
Washington D.C., DC
