Happy Feet Guest Tap Instructor

Years at Happy Feet: 29

Favorite Tap Dancer: Mark Mendonca

During his years at Tam High and the University of California, Berkeley, Matt Bechelli was on staff as an advanced tap teacher for both teen and adult advanced tap classes at Happy Feet. Matt trained with his mom, Cece Bechelliand also studied with Mark Mendonca, Jason Samuels-Smith, Chloe Arnold, Barbara Duffy, Arthur Duncan, Derrick Grant, Steve Zee, Linda Sohl-Ellison, and Dianne Walker. Matt has taught master classes throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, has performed extensively, and although he is currently a medical student at UCSF, he is both a guest and substitute teacher at Happy Feet.