Hervé Le Goff
Tap Dancer - Choreographer

Hervé Le Goff is a former soloist with the American Tap Dance Orchestra (artistic director, Brenda Bufalino), with the ATDO he performed in the U.S., Bermuda and New York City (Joyce Theater, Lincoln Center, Town Hall, Apollo Theater...).

With French pianist Frederique Trunk he created Dansez Sur Moi and Je sais des tas d'histoires d'amour, both shows of songs and tap dance they perform in NY, Paris and Canada.

Hervé received a schorlarship from the French Ministery of Culture for choreographic studies in New York.

With director Lucie Tiberghien, he co-founded Charnière a tap-dance-theater company. They created Putain D'Soleil/This Damned Sun performed in New York in Feb. 97 , Bonsoir Mon Prince/Good Evening My Prince performed in New York in Feb. 98. Their last work The Quiet Room (a adaptation of Howard Buten's novel Quand j'avais cinq ans, je m'ai tué) was performed in New York in Apr. 99 and Oct. 2000 and in Paris in the fall of 2004.

In 2001, Hervé has toured as a tap and boleadoras dancer in Europe with 2 temps 3 mouvements, a show that accompanied the presentation of Hermès’ shoe collection (artistic director, Patrice Nave). He works as a dancer and a choreographer with many agencies of corporate event.

In january 2003, Hervé created a kathak-tap dance duet with Indian dancer Shovana Narayan for the shooting of a dance documentary in Delhi (director, Naresh Sharma).

Hervé is regularly invited in dance festivals in the U.S. and in Europe.

Hervé Le Goff's tap dancing is part rococo embellishment and part sudden darting thrusts and bucklings of his long body ... in Mr. Le Goff's dancing, and particularliy in the rich solo that ends the piece, does one sense the kinds of unavoidable truths that make good story and affecting art.
The New York Times

A heavy-footed hoofer, Le Goff uses the full weight and power of his lanky physique to mine a gamut of emotions out of the action of striking tap shoes against the floor. His dancing is initiated from deep within his undulating torso and includes scraping and sliding sounds and intricate rhythms shrewdly punctuated by silences through which one can hear agitation, anxiety and even tear drops.
Back Stage, New York

Hervé Le Goff ... the real thing as a tap dancer, his entire body involved, his limbs loose and easy while keeping precise tapping going in "A Felicidade"
The Wall Street Transcript, New York

It's great to go to a club and be delighted by something new and vividly entertaining. She is dark, beautiful French pianist jazz singer, he tap dances, and when he taps a graceful rhythm is counterpoint to her scat singing, the show has a charm that is special. He goes from a sliding soft shoe to rapid-fire ripples of sound...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Tap dance shares equal billing with the spoken word in "14 Clowns & a Xylophone"
Downtown, New York