She is currently a 2017 Choreographic Fellow at New York City Center and an Artist in Residence at the American Tap Dance Foundation.
Both through Medler's mentorship and her own pursuit of further study, Dorrance learned from tap dance greats Maceo Anderson, Dr. Cholly Atkins, Clayton "Peg Leg" Bates, Bunny Briggs, Dr. James "Buster" Brown, Ernest "Brownie" Brown, Harriet "Quicksand" Browne, Dr. Harold Cromer, Arthur Duncan, Gregory Hines, Miss Mable Lee, Dr. Jeni LeGon, Dr. Henry LeTang, LeRoy Myers, Dr. Fayard Nicholas and Harold Nicholas (Nicholas Brothers), Donald O'Connor, Dr. Leonard Reed, Dr. Jimmy Slyde and Dr.
[4] Dorrance also surrounded herself with the generation of tap dancers who learned from those greats, including Josh Hilberman, Barbara Duffy, Savion Glover, Brenda Bufalino, Ted Levy, Sam Weber, Mark Mendonca, Van Porter and Dianne Walker.
She also performed as a soloist with swing-revival icons, the Squirrel Nut Zippers when she was 16,[7] and in 1997 was the youngest cultural ambassador to Russia from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
She was also a featured soloist in STOMP creators Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas's opening number for the 2011 Royal Variety Show.
[6] Dorrance also lectures about tap dance, its history, and its cultural relevance at arts organizations, symposiums, universities, and panels.
Its debut performance was on a shared evening with Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards at Danspace Project, for which the company received a Bessie Award for "blasting open our notions about tap."