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Jane Goldberg
2004 Tap Preservation Award Recipient
Jane Goldberg is a "rara avis:”
a dancer who is also a dance writer and historian. In
1972, the tap dancing of Astaire and Rogers infected
her imagination, and as a result, she studied tap and
began to write about it for Boston newspapers. She approached
tap with a political sensibility and set off to revive
interest in tap by seeking out elderly retired tap greats,
apprenticing herself to many of them, interviewing them,
and documenting their lives and work. She performs her
new genre of Topical Tap, often in collaboration with
Sarah Safford, which examines politics, Judaism, safe
sex, and more. In 1979, Goldberg founded Changing Times
Tap Dancing Co, Inc., which toured the U.S. and Europe.
Goldberg herself tapped in India on two Fulbright scholarships,
is the inventor of the tap-a-gram, and is a well-known
teacher. She is the recipient of the 2002 Flo-Bert Award
for her contributions to the art of Tap Dance.
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