Join us for an evening of tap dance with live jazz music! Baakari Wilder is internationally known for starring in the Broadway musical Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk. He is a recipient of the Bessie Award, the Steve Condos Award, the 2014 Pola Nirenska Award for Acheivement in Dance, and appeared in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, the Discovery Channel’s “Time Warp,” and as a guest performer on FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance.”

At the age 12, he opened the show at the Kennedy Center for a star-studded tap review that included the legendary Brenda Bufalino, Sandman Simms, Harold Nicholas, and Savion Glover. At 16, Baakari became a member of Savion Glover’s tap group “Real Tap Skills.” Baakari’s dancing has delighted audiences around the world in places such as the Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, France, Africa, Brazil, Germany, and Japan.

A graduate of the University of Maryland, Mr. Wilder is currently the assistant artistic director of the Washington D.C. based company “Capitol Tap.”