Roxane Butterfly

Roxane Semadeni is a tap dancer from Toulon in southern France, active in the United States. She was nicknamed 'Butterfly' by Jimmy Slyde, and performs as Roxane Butterfly. In 2002 she was included in a list of '25 to watch' published by Dance Magazine. From 1998 she choreographed performances of her all-woman ensemble BeauteeZ´n The Beat. In 2005 she received funding from Barcelona American fundings to work on her flamenco-tap fusión project Djellaba Groove.

She founded the Jimmy Slyde Institute in Barcelona.