Channing Cook Holmes

Channing Cook Holmes, a proud Los Angeles native, began studying tap with dancer/choreographer Alfred Desio. He was selected to perform in the 1993 Barcelona Dance Festival and in 1994 received a Brody Grant to study with the renowned Fayard Nocholas. In 1997 he joined Jazz Tap Ensemble and toured for one year before joining the European and national cast of Riverdance, which led to a full year in Riverdance On Broadway. His film credits include Bojangles with Gregory Hines and Martin Scorcese’s The Gangs of New York. Channing was awarded the 2002 Princess Grace Award for artistic excellence. His first choreographed work, Just In Time, toured Russia in April 2003 and was the first American tap show presented at the Kremlin. His jazz tap review Things Ain’t What They Used 2 Be, premiered at the Supper Club in New York. Channing has been fortunate to have accumulated many artistic credits early in his career based upon his belief that, “it is not what’s written, but what you’ll experience.”