2007 TapCity Performances & Special Events

PERFORMANCES

Once again, the Mayor of Tap City Tony Waag brings together an international cast of legendary tap dance veterans, cutting edge soloists, contemporary ensembles, and the hottest new hoofers on the scene today, in honor of America’s most virtuosic and entertaining art form. Celebrating its’ 7th year anniversary, Tap City creates a rich and diverse kaleidoscope of tap artists and a unique variety of styles, rhythms and musical feet.

Performances by kids, teens and youth ensembles from across the nation. Hosted by Tap City’s Youth Program Director Michele Ribble. The 5th annual TAP TEACHER AWARDS will be presented.

Performances by unique international artists and ensembles that converge from around the globe exploring new frontiers in tap dance! Artists include: Barbara Duffy & Andrea Del Conte (USA/Spain), Alexander Ivashkevich (Russia/Estonia), Chikako Iwahori (Japan), Kazu Kumagai (Japan), Jussi Lindroos (Finland), Christiane Matallo (Brazil), Max Pollak’s Rumba Tap (USA/Austria/Cuba/Japan), Rhythm & Shoes (USA), the Tap City Youth Ensemble (USA/South Africa, Zen (Japan) and others.

An evening of contemporary choreography created by leading choreographers for cutting edge ensembles including Chloe Arnold, Ayodele Casel, Michelle Dorrance, Barbara Duffy & Company (Michelle Dorrance, Barbara Duffy, Karida Griffith, Chikako Iwahori, Maya Jenkins, Carson Murphy, Claudia Rahardjanoto, & Lynn Schwab), Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards, DeWitt Fleming, Margaret Morrison, the New Jersey Tap Ensemble, Bay Area Dance Company, Jason Samuels Smith, the Tap City Youth Ensemble and Tony Waag .

The annual HOOFER AWARD will be presented to tap dancer/choreographer Deborah Mitchell and the TAP PRESERVATION AWARD will be presented to producer Susan Goldbetter.

Tony Waag and friends take us on a rhythmic romp celebrating traditional vaudeville, comedy and classic song and dance. Performers include Terry Brock, Brenda Bufalino, Mary Giattino, Derick K. Grant, Ray Hesselink, Ann Kilkelly, Mable Lee, Parallel Exit (Ryan Kasprzak, Brent McBeth, and Derek Roland), Germaine Salsberg’s Les Femmes, Ruth Rosendaal, Courtney Runft, the Tap City Youth Ensemble, Tony Waag and Karen Callaway Williams.

Tap legends Eddie Brown and Leon Collins will be inducted into the INTERNATIONAL TAP DANCE HALL OF FAME.

All performances presented at The Duke on 42nd Street, a New 42nd Street project ®

Regular box office hours at The Duke: Tuesday-Friday 4 p.m.-7 p.m., Saturday 12 p.m.-6 p.m.
On day of performances: Tuesday-Friday 4 p.m.- curtain, Saturday-Sunday 12 p.m.- curtain

Tap City honors the collective history of tap dance as a vitally important and beautiful American art form. Tap Talks/Tap Films brings together teachers, writers, historians, students and performers to view a wide selection of tap dance on film, and discuss current issues within the field. Free for registered Tap City students only.

Sun, July 8: Eddie Brown: Scientific Rhythm
Sharon Arslanian, tap dancer, professor, and director of the video documentary Eddie Brown, Scientific Rhythm will talk about the life and work of Eddie Brown --this year’s inductee into the American Tap Dance Foundation’s International Tap Dance Hall of Fame)

Mon, July 9: Tap Happy Feet
Tap dancer and historian Constance Valis Hill shows some of the happiest and amusing clips of tap dance she has collected through the process of compiling a twentieth-century history of tap dance in America.

Video clips of rarely-seen footage of women tap dancers with an accompanying friendly-fire analysis of images and iconography by Ann Kilkelly, tap dancer, professor and feminist theoretician of tap dance practice.

Wed, July 11: Three Takes on Cookie
Video clips of Charles “Cookie” Cook presented by Susan Goldbetter, this year’s recipient of the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Tap Preservation Award.

Thu, July 12: Leon Collins: Flights of the Bumblebee
Video clips of the work of Leon Collins-- this year’s inductee into the American Tap Foundation’s International Tap Dance Hall of Fame, presented by virtuoso tap dancer Pam Raff, who was Collins’ student and protégé.

Fri, July 13: Challenges of Precision Tap: The June Taylor Dancers on Television

Video clips presented by acclaimed tap dancer, choreographer, and Musical Theater artist Mercedes Ellington, who was a longtime member of the June Taylor Dancers.

Free for registered Tap City students. Meet your fellow students and faculty in a casual studio get-together.

An opportunity for Tap City students to share their talents. Includes Student Awards Ceremony.

Check out other tap related events presented by us and our friends and colleagues!

A youth tap dance concert produced by Susan Hebach and the ATDF featuring: the TCYE, ATDF Youth Program Students, Tap Collective Youth Program students, public school students.

Saturday, June 16, 2:30pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents Tap and Jazz Masters: Beat Street: A Celebration of Youth/Young Adult Tap Dancers including the Tap City Youth Ensemble – with the American Tap Dance Foundation, Tony Waag, producer, at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn. Info/directions: 718-735-4400.

Sunday, June 24, 4:00-6:00pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music– join the legendary Harlem Blues & Jazz Band for a musical performance at the Charles A. Dana Discovery Center located inside Central Park at 110th Street between 5th and Lenox Avenues, Manhattan. Info/directions: 212-310-6600.

Friday, June 29, 3:30pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents World Beat: From Jazz to Hip Hop - an interactive dance workshop with choreographer, Wayne Daniels at the DeKalb Library, 790 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn. Info: 718-455-3898.

Wednesday, July 11, 1:00pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents The Charles Moore Dance Theatre at Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Info/directions: 212-694-3612.

Wednesday, July 18, 1:00pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music – join percussionist, Andy Algire and Féraba: African Rhythm Tap Dance Company at Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Info/directions: 212-694-3612.

Friday, July 20, 6:30pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music – join percussionist, Andy Algire and Féraba: African Rhythm Tap Dance Company as part of Free Friday Family Jam at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn. Info/directions: 718-735-4400.

Wednesday, July 25, 1:00pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents World Beat: Burdetsky Family Circus Duo – join members of this amazing small family circus, along with their delightful Burdetsky Dancing Dogs, Santa and Barbara, who keep audiences smiling as they sing, waltz, and perform hilarious tricks at Riverbank State Park, 679 Riverside Drive, Manhattan. Info/directions: 212-694-3612.

TAP HAPPENS: Riverside Park South & Summer on the Hudson* present Tap Happens! Curated by tap dancer /producer Laraine Goodman. Sunday, July 22, 2:00pm – 4:00pm Pier I at 70th St on the Hudson River, FREE

Tap comes to the park for an afternoon of new tap choreography and improvisation. And free-for-all tap jam.

Featured tap dancers: Rashida Bumbray, DeWitt Fleming, Chikako Iwahori, Kirsten Burke & David Rider and Tap Teens, Ben Nathan, Michele Ribble and MetroGomes young tappers, Stefanie Weber, Hank Smith, Michela Marino Lerman and others...surprise guests with live music by the Bernice "Boom Boom" Brooks Trio

For Summer on the Hudson information, please call 212-408-0219 or visit www.nyc/gov/parks key phrase: summer on the hudson www.riversideparkfund.org

*(SOH), a free summer-long arts festival that presents a diverse mix of music concerts, dance performances, movies under the stars, DJ dance parties, family programs, special events, and wellness activities. All Sumer on the Hudson Events are FREE Weather Permitting.

Friday, August 3, 6:30pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music – performance by The Tony Terrell Caribbean Jazz Quartet as part of Free Friday Family Jam at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn. Info/directions: 718-735-4400.

Saturday. August 4, 6-7pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music – performance by Charles Moore Dance Theatre presented as part of Target 1st Saturday at Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Info/directions: 718-638-5000.

Saturday. August 11, 1:00pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents The Tony Terrell Caribbean Jazz Quartet at the Fort Greene Market presented through the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Luis Guitierrez

Friday, August 17, 6:30pm: Circuit Productions, Susan Goldbetter, producer presents Rhythm Journeys: Masters of Jazz and World Music – performance by Max Pollak and the Rumba Tap Company as part of Free Friday Family Jam at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, 145 Brooklyn Avenue, Brooklyn. Info/directions: 718-735-4400.

New York City’s largest free outdoor dance series returns to Battery Park with world class dance companies, co-presented with Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and The Joyce Theater.

Evening performance will feature a variety of tap groups and a live music trio (electric piano, drums, string bass) on stage. Co-produced by Tony Waag of the American Tap Dance Foundation presenting the best of Tap City on Tour.