The Tap City Youth Ensemble enters its third year in the Fall of 2007. This exciting performance ensemble, founded by the American Tap Dance Foundation, offers serious, young tap students professional training and performing experience.
The Tap City Youth Ensemble gives intermediate and advanced tap dancers ages 10 to 18 the opportunity to work with professional choreographers to learn classic and contemporary tap repertory. The Ensemble is directed by Susan Hebach and Margaret Morrison, and meets weekly in rehearsal with Ms. Hebach to prepare for performances in New York City Dancers hone tap skills and deepen their knowledge of tap history through special master classes, rehearsals with guest tap artists and live musicians, video showings and tap history lessons. The Tap City Youth Ensemble performs in a range of New York area venues including formal concerts, school shows, free public events, and Tap City - The New York City Tap Festival each July. Dancers are selected by audition.
There are three levels of the Tap City Youth Ensemble. Dancers placed based on skill.
Tap City Youth Ensemble I: Advanced teens
Tap City Youth Ensemble II: Int/Adv teens
Tap City Youth Ensemble III: Int/Adv ages 10+
Audition for Tap City Youth Ensemble 2007 – 2008
Saturday, September 15, 2007
Chelsea Studios, 151 W. 26th Street, 6th Floor
There are three levels of the TCYE and dancers are placed based on skill. The audition is structured as a tap class. Students should wear dance clothes and hard soled, low heeled tap shoes. There is no fee for the audition, but participants must pre-register by email. Please follow pre-registration instructions below. Auditioning students will be notified of the audition results by email by Saturday, September 22. Rehearsals begin in October, 2007.
Audition Schedule:
12:00 Check in for inter/adv dancers ages 11-13
12:30–1:30 Audition for inter/adv dancers ages 11-13 TCYE III
1:30 Check-in for advanced dancers ages 13-18
2:00 – 3:30 Audition for adv dancers ages 13-18 TCYE I & II
3:30 – 4:00 Call back for advanced dancers TCYE I
All dancers who plan to audition MUST pre-register for the audition via email by September 10.
Audition results will be sent via email by September 22, 2007.
Copy, paste and complete the information below and send to Susan Hebach at: shebach@atdf.org. Please send information by September 10.
1. Student name
2. Date of birth and current age
3. Parent/Guardian names
4. Parent email address
5. Parent’s home phone
6. Cell or alternate phone
7. Student email (optional)
8. Mailing address
9. Home dance studio & current tap instructor
10. Where do you go to school?
11. Are you a member of any other performing group or organization?
Please list (i.e. a competition group, chorus, sports team)
Accepted members fill out Letter of Agreement , print and send with tuition payment.
2007-2008 Schedule:
Tap City Youth Ensemble meets Sundays
Rehearsals begin October 7, 2007 and run through June, 2008
Rehearsal Schedule: Sundays
Tap City Youth Ensemble I: 11:30 am – 2:30 pm
Tap City Youth Ensemble II: 1:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Tap City Youth Ensemble III: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
All Rehearsals will be held at:
Chelsea Studios
151 West 26th Street, 5th Floor (bet. 6th – 7th Aves)
New York City
Tuition and Fees 2007-2008:
| |
Reg fee |
Costume fee |
Yearly tuition new members |
3 Installment payment plan |
| TCYE I: |
$35 |
$75 |
$1495 |
$518 / trimester |
TCYE II:
|
$35 |
$75 |
$1495 |
$518 / trimester |
TCYE III:
|
$35 |
$75 |
$960 |
$340 / trimester |
Scholarships are available through the ATDF Gregory Hines Memorial Scholarship Fund. Application can be downloaded from this website by clicking on the Scholarship link http://www.atdf.org/scholint.html.
All students who want a scholarship for the 2007-2008 year must submit a new scholarship application by September 15, 2007.
Deadlines and important dates:
Mon, Aug 13 Scholarship application deadline–returning students
Sat, Sept 15 Scholarship application deadline–new students
Sat, Sept 15 Auditions for TCYE 2007– 2008
Sun, Oct 7 First day of rehearsal
Sun, Oct 7 Full tuition and fees due or 1st payment of
3-installment payment plan due
Date TBA Meeting for all parents and students
Sun, Nov 26 No rehearsal -- Thanksgiving weekend
Sun. Jan 6 2nd payment due of 3-installment payment plan
Fri, Feb 15-
Sun, Feb17 Winter Tap Intensive and New Tap
Choreography Showcase
Sun, Apr 6 3rd payment due of 3-installment payment plan
Complete 2007-08 rehearsal and holiday schedule will be distributed to company members
About the Tap City Youth Ensemble
In the 2007-2008 year all levels of the Tap City Youth Ensemble will learn classic and contemporary tap works from guest choreographers. The ensembles will continue to rehearse and perform repertory from last year while new works are added. The Ensembles perform in a variety of New York area venues, from informal showings, promotional events, school shows, outdoor concerts and professional performance venues. All three levels of the Ensemble will perform at the ATDF Winter Tap Intensive in February 2008 and at Tap City 2008– The New York City Tap Festival in July. Additional performances throughout the year will be announced.
About the TCYE Levels:
Tap City Youth Ensemble I is the most advanced ensemble, made up of advanced teens. TCYE I is our main performance group and will have more performance opportunities than the other two levels. TCYE II will join TCYE I for part of their weekly rehearsal.
Tap City Youth Ensemble II is made up of intermediate and advanced teens who are working towards TCYE I. TCYE II will learn material and technique geared specifically towards the needs of their level. TCYE II rehearsal time will often combine with the other ensembles for new repertory with guest choreographers and technique classes.
Tap City Youth Ensemble III is our group of talented pre-teens ages 10+. Level III will learn and perform classic and contemporary tap repertory geared towards their skills.
Performance Highlights of the TCYE 2006 & 2007 Seasons:
TCYE members come from New York City, Long Island, Upstate NY, New Jersey, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. The Ensemble rehearses weekly with Ensemble Director and choreographer Susan Hebach and works frequently with guest teachers and choreographers including Brenda Bufalino, Barbara Duffy, Ayodele Casel, Harold Cromer, Michelle Dorrance, Derick K. Grant, Jared Grimmes, Molutsi Mogami, Tony Waag and Margaret Morrison. They have learned new contemporary works as well as classic tap repertory by Bill “Bojangles” Robinson, Charles “Honi” Coles, and the Copasetics and Eddie Brown. The Ensemble has been featured in articles in Dance Spirit Magazine and Time Out New York Kids and appeared on television on NY 1. Most recently, members of the ensemble also appeared on Nickelodeon's METV.
“Past and future come together . . . in the recently formed Tap City Youth Ensemble, which performs classic routines like the Copasetics’ “Chair Dance” with brash adolescent energy” (Star-Ledger).
TCYE Performances highlights:
ATDF New Tap Choreography Showcases
National Dance Week, NYC
Jamming it up at Capezio
ATDF's Annual Spring Gala
Macy's Charity Day
School Show Bloomfield, NJ
From 5-Points to Harlem in Foley Square, Manhattan
Tap City – The Annual NYC Tap Festival at the Duke on 42nd St.
Nickelodeon's METV
Beat Street
& More!
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