April Cook is an NYC-based teacher, choreographer and dancer. While attending UNC-Chapel Hill, she studied with Gene Medler, director of the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble, who had the most profound influence on her dancing. April currently teaches and performs throughout the country and is a judge for Starquest International Competitions. She teaches classes and leads seminars at the annual BDC Teacher Workshop in NYC, and has had the pleasure of teaching for BDC's Absolute Beginner Workshop series, Summer Intensive Programs and BDC’s Arts in Motion performance company. She has been a guest speaker at Dance Teacher Magazine’s Summer Conference, was a tap instructor for Rosie O’Donnell’s Rosie’s Broadway Kids theater scholarship program in Manhattan, and had the privilege of performing nationally with Savion Glover. April was also a guest teacher at the Osaka School of Music in Osaka, Japan.
Performance credits include: "The Colbert Report," tap dancer at Usher Raymond’s birthday celebration at the Rainbow Room in NYC, "Up Front" for Cartoon Network, Britney Spears’ Elizabeth Arden fragrance launch party, Neil Young and Crazy Horse Greendale Tour NYC dates, the WNBA Charlotte Sting dance team, Mable Lee’s Dancing Ladies, Good Housekeeping’s Shine On at Radio City Music Hall and A Shared Evening: Michelle Dorrance and Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, as part of the Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church.