SPECIAL OPEN LEVEL MASTERCLASS in honor of NATIONAL TAP DANCE DAY!!! With EMMY AWARD WINNER JASON SAMUELS SMITH www.divinerhythmproductions.com (For pictures, bio & news)

Workshops, tap jams, and festivals abound!

NYC tap jams every monday and friday with Dormeshia and Omar

LA Tap Festival opens registration

Hoofer's Club (NYC) quarterly jam

LA 2-day workshop with Jason and Chloe

LeRoy Myers plaque unveiling

NYC, May 28th Flo-bert awards ceremoney

Roxane Butterfly gets Guggenheim nod

AND MORE.......

A gala benefit tribute honoring tap legend Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers is set for June 15th at Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion.
Stay tuned to the web site www.keepthebeat.biz for more updates on
ticket availability and guest artists set to appear.

The movie Idlewild, featuring new music by Outkast, is now set for an August 25th release date. The movie-musical features lots of dance choreography by Tony winner Hinton “The Tap Dance Kid” Battle and, reportedly, a climactic dance scene featuring Jason Samuels, Chloe Arnold and others.

Still, perhaps, the only touring band in the indie rock scene with a full-time tap dancer, Tilly and the Wall are set to release their second album in late May. Read about it here.

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

IMAGINE TAP

is the hot, new tap show

coming to Chicago this July...

Check out the spread in Dance Spirit Magazine!!!

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Savion Glover's dancer, Ashley DeForest, was voted as Dance Magazine readers' 2006 IT GIRL. You can read about her in the May issue. Also read her interview, "Stompin' With Savion," in Dance Magazine's March 2nd Newsletter.