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Kindly invited: all tap dancers of North, Central and South America to participate in the 1st national meeting of tap dance Mexico 2010 & 1st National Tap Dance Championship Mexico 2010.
February 12 to 21, 2010
All information can be found on our website:
www.1entap.com
Keep on Tapping !!!
Bringing a new spin to its annual celebration of National Tap Dance Day, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), the world’s only year-round presenter of American tap dance and contemporary percussive arts, presents Windy City Rhythms Goes Global, featuring the postponed Chicago debut of the Brazilian body band Barbatuques, joined by Emmy Award winner Jason Samuels Smith and CHRP’s performing ensemble BAM!. Windy City Rhythms Goes Global, presented in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), takes place May 29–31 at the MCA Stage, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago.
If you happen to be in or around Stuttgart, Germany, on April 24th, 2009, you'll definitely want to check out Pascal Hulin's Tap Reloaded 2009 show featuring Jason Samuels Smith, Chloe Arnold, Dorel & Costel Surbeck, Fabrice Martin, Lukas Weiss, Noelia Vincente, Carlos Ramos, Christiane Matallo & Gilberto de Syllos, Konstantin Nevretdinov, Fredy Corado, and The Penguin Tappers. Buy your tickets here. Enjoy this full color poster!
The Wonder Kids, a documentary about Paul and Arlene Kennedy's tap dancing school (Universal Dance in LA), makes its Easy Coast premiere on September 19th at the Village East Cinema and will feature a pre-show dance featuring narrator Dick Van Dyke, Savion Glover, and an all-star cast of dancers from the film. According to the press release:
...written, produced and directed by Jim Petersen and Pamela J. Richardson, "The Wonder Kids" is the inspiring story of a tiny dance studio that set out to save the art-form of tap-dancing, and not only produced many of the world's greatest dancers, but saved the lives of thousands of inner-city kids in the process.
Here's the trailer:
Jane Goldberg's new book, Shoot Me While I'm Happy: Memories from the Tap Goddess of the Lower East Side is now available. It features a foreward by the late Gregory Hines.
From the promo:
This is not a history of tap dancing. It is one determined woman's highly personal account of falling in love with and living the tap life. One of the linchpins behind the Great Tap Revival of the 1970s and 80s, Jane Goldberg tracked down, studied with, and performed alongside some of the tap greats of the twentieth century. In the process, she came up with a genre all her own: Rhythm & Schmooze.
A bonus DVD with: By Word of Foot: Tap Masters Pass On Their Tradition (1980) plus excerpts of Rhythm & Schmooze will be included, but only if you order the book through www.janegoldberg.org
Europe-based Tap pro Pascal Hulin offers up a new YouTube video of a funk tap piece he choreographed featuring tap dancers Dorel and Costel Surbeck.
CHICAGO TAP THEATRE PRESENTS: THE HOURGLASS AND THE POISONED PEN
A SUPERHERO TAP DANCE OPERA
JUNE 27-29, JULY 5, 6, 11-13 and 18-20
AT THE ATHENAEUM THEATRE STUDIO 3 (2936 N. SOUTHPORT)
CHICAGO- Chicago Tap Theatre makes history again when it presents the nation’s first superhero tap dance opera sequel this June and July at the Athenaeum Theatre Studio 3. Co-created by comic book artist Andrew Pepoy (inker of Batman, X-Men, and The Simpsons, among others) and CTT Artistic Director Mark Yonally, The Hourglass and the Poisoned Pen follows The Hourglass, a superheroine endowed with powers she is struggling to understand as she battles the forces of evil embodied by the Poisoned Pen and other nefarious characters. Not just a strict sequel, this production also encapsulates last year’s The Hourglass in the Stop-Time Chronicles so that no one will be missing any important plot developments.
Bloch Dancewear is selling a new tap dance shoe developed in cooperation with tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith. The black patent leather shoe features a serious build-up on the sole and (probably) a phat sound. Order it online from the Bloch web site. Check out a close-up image in PDF format.
