Ayodele Casel

Birth : 1975-06-05, Bronx, New York, USA

History

Ayodele Casel is an American actress, tap dancer and choreographer. Raised in Puerto Rico, she derived inspiration for her tap style from salsa music. While in college, she studied with Baakari Wilder and Charles Goddertz. She became the first, and remains the only, woman to be a member of Savion Glover's Not Your Ordinary Tappers.

Profile

Movies

American Tap

Self

The history of tap is an ever-evolving panorama of inclusion, adversity, and reinvention. This in-depth documentary is an absorbing narrative about a quintessentially American dance form—from its origins, to the historic and cultural events that shaped it, to its present day rebirth as a vibrant art form.

Skin

Executive Producer

A comedy about a guy who refuses to have sex without his shirt on after losing 200 pounds. Coming to grips that he may lose his boyfriend over it, he must learn to accept and love himself first, embarking on a hilarious and heartfelt journey.

Bojangles

The life of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, African-American tap-dancing star of stage and screen. In 1916, Robinson was a successful vaudeville performer and considered the finest tap dancer of his generation. At the peak of his career, he was the highest paid Black entertainer, but for all the joy he gave others, his life was anything but happy, there was a great deal of tragedy in himself. He died broke and penniless.