The
Tap Kids
Rhythm Intensive is a one of a kind program designed to
challenge and inspire talented young tap dancers age 9-21. Each year
only 60 dancers are chosen to take part in the Tap Kids Rhythm
Intensive which offers unsurpassed training with the Nation’s finest
Tap Masters. All Tap Kids will perform in the 6th Annual Tap Kids
Showcase Performance at the historic Tarrytown Music Hall as well as
have an opportunity to work with the cast and creators of the
popular new national touring show “Tap Kids”. All dancers will have
the opportunity to learn and perform new original choreography by TK
Faculty.
The less-than-fluid movements of many crude Web video
productions or the simple animations created for PDAs
seem more akin to a tap dancer's jerky motions rather
than the graceful pirouettes of a ballerina.
Taking this cue and
using technical limitations to his advantage, digital
artist James Buckhouse created Tap, a project that
allows users to download and control two animated tap
dancers on the Web or from Palm beaming stations around
New York City.
Buckhouse's project, which he developed with the help of
Holly Brubach, the former New York Times style editor,
launches Friday and will run through July 27.
"I suggested tap for a number of reasons ..." [clcik the
link for more]
Envision Cinderella as a flapper and dreadlocked hoofer
Savion Glover [pictured right] as a Baroque aristocrat
and you'll have an idea of the unexpected juxtapositions
that flavor much of greater Boston's fall's dance
season. But the biggest news has to do with bricks and
mortar: over the past 18 months, Boston has acquired
such shiny new spaces as the Harvard Dance Center, Zero
Arrow Theatre in Cambridge, and the 230-seat auditorium
in Boston University's new Fitness and Recreation
Center. Other longed-for spaces, such as the theater at
the waterfront Institute for Contemporary Art, are still
in the pipeline. Ultimately, of course, it's what's on
stage that matters.
Well, a TapMove is simply a rhythmic dance, such as Tap,
Clogging, Irish, etc, where the feet are used to make rhythm.
TapMoves.com is dedicated to provide a medium for these rhythmic
dancers to share, create, and discuss their favorite moves! Best
of all, this site is completely FREE!
Your contributions, suggestions, and participation are greatly
appreciated. ENJOY!
Tap Dance Video Dictionary
(The World's Largest Free Tap Dance Video Dictionary)
Also featuring a bi-monthly online tap
show called
Garage Tap that features guest tappers and interviews,
tapping on location, new steps, combinations and tap news.
As a street dancer, teacher,
performer & choreographer, Grant’s career has seen
him travel from one side of the planet to the other.
Starting out as a street performer, he spent over
ten years developing his art around the world,
busking from Bourbon Street in New Orleans , to L.A.
’s Venice Beach & London ’s Covent Garden . It was
on the street that Grant mastered the skill of
capturing an audience & the true art of
improvisation…”you have to improvise on the street
‘cos you never know what or who is around the
corner”.
Tap Dance at UKplays host to the latest tap dance sites composed
entirely by UK authors and tap dancers. Although tap dancing is
an American art form it has many Irish and old English roots.
Tap
dancing is an art appreciated the world over and it's
participants, many who just practice it for the love and fun of
it, may find answers to unanswered questions they have about
some of the historical and technical aspects of style and
interpretation.
In
this compilation of tap sites some of the history and style
variations are explained and it is hoped that the sites will be
both educational and entertaining.
The American Tap Dance Foundation, formerly
the American Tap Dance Orchestra, is a New York City non-profit
tap dance company founded by master tap dancers Brenda
Bufalino, Tony Waag, and the late
Charles ‘Honi’ Coles. The ATDF is committed to
establishing tap as a vital component of American Dance heritage
by creating year-round performance opportunities, adult, teen
and youth educational programs, seasonal tap intensives,
choreography residencies, teacher training seminars, history and
archival projects, film and lecture series.
From 1986 through 1999, the American
Tap Dance Orchestra performed in hundreds of concert,
stage, and film projects and thrilled audiences around the
world. From 1989 to 1995, the company also operated
Woodpeckers Tap Dance Center in New York, and presented
year-round programming of performances, workshops, daily classes
for adults and children, tap jams, lectures, and film
presentations.
THE GREGORY HINES COLLECTION
To honor the memory of Gregory Hines,
master of Twentieth Century American tap dance, The American
Tap Dance Foundation, in collaboration with the Dance
Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing
Arts, is proud to announce the development of the Gregory
Hines Collection of American Tap Dance. This project aims to
create an archived collection of tap dance on film and
video, print and photographs.
The mission is to preserve, acquire, and
make available for public viewing rare materials
representing the heritage of the American art form tap
dance.
Vancouver Tap Dance Society is the leading promoter
of tap dance in British Columbia, dedicated to promoting and
developing awareness of this art form.
The Vancouver Tap Dance Society was formed as a non-profit
organization in 1995 by Lana Caputi and Sandra Selfjord, to
create an opportunity for all age groups and skill levels to
learn tap and to share in the founders’ passion for tap dancing.
"One of New York's
leading tap ensembles" NY Times, was founded in 1986, and
is a major force not only in NYC but also in the international
tap community. The company is a collection of individual
dancers, all strong soloists, who fuse into an electrifying
ensemble that uniquely blends tap dance, music, choreography and
improvisation. Since 1991 Artistic Director
Heather Cornell has been the sole choreogrhapher creating
works in a style that has been dubbed "visual music" by
Dance Magazine.
"Manhattan Tap concentrates on what counts - the sound of tap
dancing... excitingly they are always in dialogue with their own
musicians... " NY Times.
