“DC is where my love of dance was born. When I was a kid growing up, we had so many outreach programs that connected us to some of the biggest dancers in the world, including Debbie Allen. We wanted to start our own festival to give back to the community, so through the Chloé and Maud Foundation, every year we put on the DC Tap Fest at the Westin. This program’s been going for 15 years, and some of the kids that came through it are now performing in the movie Spirited!”

“The Kennedy Center’s where I got my big break as a teenager to perform with Debbie Allen, who became my mentor. That experience changed my life, and the Kennedy Center was really a massive component of that. My first performance there was when I was 10 years old, with my tap company Taps & Company, and it truly was a space that was so palatial and grand, it made you believe as a kid you could go on and make something of yourself and follow this dream and make the dream come true.”

“After I graduated from high school, I went to Columbia University in New York City to pursue my dreams and to also study film, because I always had a mission: to put tap on film. I would perform as a dancer all around campus and all around the city, and then I would also be learning how to make films. I’m really thankful for my education; I was able to come to Spirited not just from the lens of a dancer, but also able to understand our director’s vision and to speak the same language.”

“My sister, Maud, and I have our own tap shoe; it’s called the Chloé and Maud tap shoe. There’s a store in New York called Bloch, and there you can buy the Chloé and Maud tap shoes, and also we have the Chloé and Maud tap boot, which is super cool, fashionable, and seasonal as well—it’s holiday season, good time to get a boot! It’s very exciting to be able to bring tap to the movie Spirited in a massive way that’s so diverse—and of course be able to bring our tap shoes as well!”

“The Apollo Theater was the land of some of the best entertainers of the Harlem Renaissance. We’ve had the opportunity to perform there and to be part of that legacy and trajectory of excellence in the arts. The Apollo Theater is somewhere that is really special to artists in the musical theater space, and also to tap dancers.”

“Rockefeller Center is the quintessential place that inspires the holiday season. My sister and I would always love going there and dancing in front. It started with street performing in New York to make ends meet during college days, and then when we became content creators, we would go there to make holiday videos for our Tap Into the Holidays dance challenges. Through our art, we wanted to make people feel included, welcomed, inspired, loved, and uplifted during the holidays.”

“After I went to school at Columbia, I moved to L.A., and I got my next big opportunity—to teach at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy. I was a tap teacher there, and through that experience, I also trained in all styles of dance. This was where the Syncopated Ladies was born. Now my sister and I, through our Chloé and Maud Foundation, do a weekly program for kids and adults called Syncopated Sundays, to keep the art of tap dance growing.”

“We love eating, of course. And through all the production meetings and all the creative planning, my favorite place to get food from was a place called My Two Cents. It’s a very wonderful, Black-women-owned business that serves non-GMO soul food. So you’re talking about delicious food that’s also healthy, and that’s super special, because obviously, as we are working our bodies so hard, we want to make sure we’re eating healthy as well.”

“Every Sunday at 12 p.m., we do a workout with our brother, and his name is Tadeo, and the workout’s called Cuerpaso Beach Workout. The workout happens every week at 2600 Barnard Way in Santa Monica. Fitness is so important—and also stretching. We’re perpetually cross-training to make sure that we can handle the rigor of what it takes to make the scenes that you’re going to see in Spirited.”

“The Grove is like the Rockefeller Center for me of Los Angeles, where again, you feel that holiday spirit, that Christmas morning feeling. They have snow that comes down, and you know in L.A. to see snow come down is super fun. It’s another place that my sister and I always dance every holiday season; we make a video in front of the Christmas tree, and we tap into the holidays!”