Special Skills

Recording Artist

Talya Ferro - The Music That Makes Me Dance
Talya Ferro - Harlem Haunts My Mind (Original Cast Records-CD)
Look At Me - Talya Ferro, (MGM-LP) Hit recording “Cuando Calienta El Sol”
Batucada - The Walter Wanderley Group, (Verve-LP) Lead singer Talya Ferro’s original hit rendition of “Wave” written especially for her by Antonio Carlos Jobim, is now a genuine classic standard

In Production

Harlem Haunts My Mind, features the glorious music of the Harlem Renaissance. (in production)
Broadway, My Way (in production)
Out On The Road, her play about a female singer on tour in Southeast Asia. (performed at ICCC)

Take A Chance With Me, from the film For Singles Only.
music: Walter Wanderley lyrics: Talya Ferro

(The following is a small representative list of work as a dancer in Films, Broadway, Variety TV, Theaters, Production Shows and Troupes)

Films:Westside Story, Finian’s Rainbow, The Nutty Professor, Meet Me In Las Vegas, others…
Broadway: Kicks & Company, Your Arms Too Short To Box With God
Production Shows/Tours: Westside Story – Regional Tours various Shark dancer roles
The Hacienda Intercontinental Hotel (The Bumps Blackwell Show-Lead Female Dancer
Moulin Rouge - Hollywood (Olivette Miller’s 'Harlem Highlights' Show - Lead Dancer/Dance Captain) - Hollywood
Eartha Kitt TV Special - (Assistant to Choreographer / Featured Dancer)
Dinah Washington Show - (Jimmy Fields Dancers- Robert’s Show Lounge - Chicago )

Touring Dance Troupes:

Archie Savage, Jeni LeGon, Jimmie Fields and with the Katherine Dunham troupe in “Bambouche” at the Huntington Hartford Theater Los Angeles