such prestigious venues as Broadway's 42nd Street, at the Hollywood Bowl, at Disneyland and at the world-famous Derby in Hollywood. Currently, she regularly performs her tap dance routines at downtown Los Angeles's 1920s-themed nightclub Maxwell DeMille's Cicada Club, housed inside the historic 1928 art deco James Oviatt Building. She teaches private and group dance lessons in Los Angeles and at international dance camps, works on her tap documentary and produces instructional dance DVDs. Historian In 1990, Rusty's book TAP! The Greatest Tap Dance Stars and Their Stories, 1900–1955, was published in hardcover by William Morrow Press and in In March 1995, was reissued in soft cover by Da Capo Press. Actor and tap dancer Gregory Hines wrote the foreword to the book, for which she interviewed 30 tap-dance artists, including Ann Miller, Shirley Temple and Donald O'Connor. She has contributed to the Smithsonian Institution's Jazz Oral History project, along with the Encyclopædia Britannica, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Dance, The American National Biography, the Great Danish Encyclopedia, the jazz history Jazz: The First Century, published by William Morrow and Company, and Discover Jazz, published by Pearson. Rusty is producing a one-hour television special, TAP! Tempo of America. She was the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts grant to aid in making this dance documentary. She has also appeared in numerous dance documentaries, including the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers box set documentary for Warner Home Video, the BBC's Fascinating Rhythms – The Story of Tap, and This Joint is Jumpin''' for Bravo. Rusty Frank is featured in Alive and Kicking, a feature-length documentary that takes an inside look into the people and culture of the Lindy Hop resurgence. Awards and honors National Endowment for the Arts grant (for her in-progress documentary TAP! Tempo of America) California Institute of Contemporary Arts grant (for her in-progress documentary TAP! Tempo of America'') 2015 – Inducted into the Camp Hollywood Swing Dance Hall of Fame 2008 – "The Tap Preservation Award" from New York's American Tap Dance Foundation 2008 – Inducted into the California Swing Dance Hall of Fame 2007 – "Tradition in Tap Award" for Outstanding Achievements and Significant Contribution to the Art and Tradition of Tap Dance 2002 – "The Historic Preservation Award" from The Art Deco Society of California 1992 – "Soul of Shipley" award from National Association of Dance & Affiliated Artists (NAADA) 1991 – "Dance in Action" award