Rochelle Marie Haynes is a native of Dallas, Texas, where she began her dance training at the age of three. She attended Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Miss Haynes continued her dance training in Philadelphia while attending college at the University of the Arts, where she received her BFA in modern dance. 

Rochelle joined Tap Team Two and Company as a principal dancer in 1997 where she traveled throughout the United States teaching the history of tap and promoting tap dance as an American art form. In 2012 she was asked to become the Dance Captain of the company. She has been teaching tap throughout the Pennsylvania and New Jersey area for over 30 years. Rochelle has also taught master classes in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Maryland, Louisiana, New York, Maine, and Prague, Czech Republic. In October of 2018 she taught in Brazil at their 19th Brazilian Tap Festival. She was on faculty for Temple University’s Dance Department for three semesters and in 2021 she was asked to join Temple University’s faculty in the Theater Department. Rochelle is in her nineteenth year as the Guest Artist in Residence for Tap Ties at Cedar Crest College. Since 2005, Miss Haynes was on faculty from 2005 to 2022 at the University of the Arts which lead her to teach the tap classes for the Summer World of Dance for two years, Pre-College Program and at the High School Dance Festival. Rochelle was the Tap choreographer for five years for the Garden State Dance Festival. Her choreography has received high accolades, special awards, choreography awards and Title winnings in the competition industry. 

Miss Haynes has studied with and taken classes from the Masters of tap for over 20 years. Her studies have taken her within the United States, Brazil and Prague, Czech Republic. She has been fortunate to perform in the Philadelphia area for over 20 years and has taken the stage with tap greats Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Nicole Hockenberry, Germaine Ingram and Dorothy Wasserman of the movie TAP. She performed the choreography of Germaine Ingram in “Danceboom2005”, Philadelphia Folklore Project’s “DanceHappensHere” 2006 and 2008, the “TapExtravaganza” in New York City, and at the University of the Arts in 2005 and 2008 which were special tribute performances to the late great LaVaughn Robinson. In 2011 she had the wonderful opportunity to perform original choreography of Bill BoJangles Robinson and Charles “Honi” Coles of the Copasetics in New York at the Symphony Space Theater. In the summer of 2018 Rochelle performed the choreography of Lynn Schwabb in ATDF’s Tap It Out! One of her favorite performances was “Prague-DC-Philly” in Prague, Czech Republic.