Faculty & Staff

Pamm Drake is the original founder of DANCE/10 Performing Arts Center in Alameda California, and is director and creator of The Tap Dancing Christmas Trees. In 2023 she sold Dance/10 to Ryan Justus to continue it’s legacy! Pamm began her musical theatre career as a kid doing local musicals. She took a tangent from musical theatre while pursuing a BA in Dance from UCLA and a Masters in choreography from Mills College. She has studied with America Dance Machine, Twala Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Jose Limon, Donald McKayle, Ann Marie Garvin, Joe Tremaine, Frank Hatchett.   Her professional credits include Dance Between the Lines, Applause, Music Man, Stepping Out (Mavis) Movies: Can’t Stop the Music, Foul Play, TV shows and industrials. She made her Broadway debut in the touring company of A Chorus Line (Diana/Bebe). In 1984 she started her own professional company, DANCE/10 with The Evolution of Jazz, a historical look at jazz dance. Her other company, The Tap Dancing Christmas Trees, who have been together for 33 years, have appeared in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade five times and twice in the Hollywood Holiday Parade and annually in America’s Children’s Parade and most recently the Palm Springs Festival of Lights.

As past president of Dance Masters of California Chapter 13, Pamm brings to the classroom the experience of a performer and the knowledge of dance and music not only as a student but as a scholar.

She is a member of Actors Equity, AGVA and Past President of Dance Masters of California Chapter 13. Pamm is certified with Dance Masters of America in the following subjects: Jazz and Tap.