Tap Dancer. Performer. Choreographer. Speaker. Believer.  Montreal native Travis Knights is realizing his dreams, pounding rhythms on wood floors all over the world. His talent and dedication have earned him audiences in Shanghai, Berlin, Genoa, New York, and Vancouver to name a few.  He has worked on film and television with Gregory Hines, Henry LeTang, and Savion Glover.

In 2006, he was tapped to be the principle dancer in the video game adaptation of Warner Brother's 'Happy Feet'.  In 2007 and 2008, Travis participated extensively as a Tap Dance consultant for Cirque du Soleil. Since then, he's performed in Tandem Act Productions' 'Diary of a Tap Dancer' at the Apollo Theatre, and the touring show 'Wonderland: A Tap Tribute to Stevie Wonder', created by Ayodele Casel and Sarah Savelli.

Travis was a featured Tap Dancer in the Opening Ceremonies to the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. In the same year he toured North America with the internationally acclaimed Australian Tap Dance show, Tap Dogs.

Off the heels of receiving the Austin Critic's Award for best dance artist, Travis has returned to Austin, Texas for his second season as a principal dancer with Tapestry Dance Company, under the Artistic Direction of the critically acclaimed Acia Gray.  Watch out for him, because the best is yet to come.

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  "Travis Knights, a fierce dancer whose last gig was with Tap Dogs, is stylistically singular and, really, on another plane altogether. His power, combined with looseness, a great range of expression, and a deeper use of level – a lower center of gravity, perhaps – was arresting." - Jonelle Seitz, The Austin Chronicle Nov. 2010