Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards

Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards (born January 16, 1976, in Englewood, California) is an American tap dancer, choreographer, and instructor who has been called "the mastress of her generation.

"[1] In 1998, she married fellow dancer Omar Edwards and opened a studio with him in Harlem; they have three children.

At age 12, she made her Broadway debut in Black and Blue, alongside Gregory Hines, Jimmy Slyde, Buster Brown, and Savion Glover.

"[4] After graduating from high school, Sumbry-Edwards joined Lynn Dally's Jazz Tap Ensemble as a soloist.

After her experience hearing responses to her role in Bring In Da'Noise, Bring In Da'Funk alongside male dancers, Sumbry-Edwards decided to think about new ways of teaching techniques of rhythm-tap for women, culminating in a Harlem Tap Studio course for Women in Heels described as "countering the downward-driving, piston-driven attack of traditional (male) rhythm-tapping styles with steps that were structured along more circuitous paths of attack.