Who We Are:

Polymath Performance Project is a collective of performing artists who explore the unique hybridity of the tap dancer. Our philosophy stems from conceptualizing the tap dancer as an inherently polymathic practice: music and dance simultaneously. Through experimental rethinking its genre limits and interdisciplinary nature, we are committed to fostering a collaborative, futurist approach to tap dance technique, improvisation, and choreography that promises a dynamic expansion of the genre’s utility in contemporary performance by researching it’s historical and cultural roots.

Charlie Maybee is a choreographer, musician, educator, and writer currently based in Charleston, South Carolina where he is on faculty with the dance program at College of Charleston (CofC). He holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois with a certificate in Criticism and Interpretive Theory and is an alumnus of the Metropolitan Youth Tap Ensemble (MYTE). He has worked consistently in higher education since 2015 specializing in tap and modern dance technique classes, overseeing dance research projects, and providing musical accompaniment for dance classes on drums, guitar, and piano. In 2014, he founded Polymath Performance Project through which he creates interdisciplinary performances with tap dance as its artistic center. His current research explores hybridity, literary archetypes, punk aesthetics, and techno-cultures through a tap dancer’s perspective and works to make tap dance more pronounced in higher education.