Dig and Swivel Productions is the home base for Sarah Savelli, The Cleveland Tap Crew, the Ohio Elite Tap Company, and the Dig Tap Society. Created in 2011, DSP helps to facilitate bookings and projects. Customized tap dance intensives, tap choreography for all ages, levels, and class sizes, in-studio workshops, private lessons, youth tap ensembles, tap jams, and full length performances are all available options to choose from to create your perfect educational and/or entertaining tap dance experience.

Sarah Savelli started tap dancing at her mother's dance studio in Northeast Ohio at the age of four, and has loved it ever since. She began instructing locally at the age of twelve, and has been teaching, performing, choreographing, and producing Tap events for the past 25+ years. 

Sarah was a founding and choreographing member of Rhythm ISS... an influential Chicago-based, all-female tap company in the 90's, and on the faculty of numerous studios, tap festivals and competition/conventions in New York City, Chicago, Michigan, and Cleveland; including Steps on Broadway (NYC), Gus Giordano Jazz Dance Center and Lou Conte's (Chicago), the Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Third Coast Rhythm Project, Chicago Tap Summit, West Coast Dance Explosion, Totally Tap, the Art Beat Tap Festival, and Tapperfest Toronto.

Best known for her swift and intricate footwork, Sarah has studied and danced with many of tap dancing’s historical greats. She performed with Savion Glover in various shows across the USA, including “Stepz” at NYC’s Joyce Theater, and was commissioned by Playhouse Square (Cleveland, OH) to create and perform in a full-length tap work (Tap into Peace). Sarah was the first Capezio ACE Award for Tap choreography finalist, and is featured in the PBS documentary Juba! The Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance.

In addition to producing the Cleveland Tap Experience annually, she is the artistic director of the Cleveland Tap Crew, a youth tap ensemble with 50+ members that she established in 2012, and co-director of the Ohio Elite Tap Company, a pre-professional ensemble that was developed in 2020.

In 2022, Sarah and her fellow Rhythm ISS… co-founders Idella Reed-Davis and Sharon Rushing were recognized as “Tapology Living Legends”, and in 2023 she traveled to London to set a new piece on the esteemed tap company OKR Dance.

2024 projects include opening The Cleveland Tap Conservatory, a new space in Cleveland for advanced level tap dance study and creation at the Shore Cultural Centre, and touring with the Dig Tap Society.