Linda Sohl-Donnell has been on the Orange Coast College dance faculty since 1978. Artistic Director and Choreographer for Rhapsody In Taps, performed with several modern dance companies before co-founding Rhapsody In Taps with Toni Relin in 1981. Her training includes an extensive background in modern dance, ballet and jazz and studies under the great tap masters Foster Johnson, Eddie Brown, Honi Coles and Buster Brown. Ms. Sohl-Donnell has been awarded five Choreographers’ Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a recipient of 1999 and 2001 Irvine Fellowships in Dance from the James Irvine Foundation and was nominated for the prestigious Alpert Award in 1999. She has also been awarded Artists Fellowships from the California Arts Council and from the Public Corporation for the Arts, a Monticello Fellowship from the National Association for Regional Ballet and a Brody Fellowship from the California Community Foundation for her choreography. Since 1978, she has been on the dance faculty at Orange Coast College and has toured throughout the United States, Asia, France, Germany and Japan teaching and performing. Linda is the founder and director of the Southern California Tap Festival, co-sponsored by RIT and Orange Coast College, which brings together hundreds of tap professionals and international students in classes and performances. Her television/film credits include "Tap," the upcoming documentary, "Tap, the Tempo of America," and "Juba," a televised documentary of Chicago’s 1998 Tap Festival, produced by the Human Rhythm Project.

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