Big band music plays over the speakers as pixie-haired Gloria Latimer’s tootsies click and clack across the onyx-colored flooring inside Ormao Dance Company. The longtime tap dancing teacher ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Spirited,” a revisionist “Christmas Carol,” leads with tap, thanks to the choreographer Chloé Arnold and her team, Ava Bernstine-Mitchell and Martha ...
For professional tap dancer and educator Quynn Johnson, tap dance is a never ending process. “There are levels of tap dance that for me still have yet to be unlocked, and there is a lot of work that I ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Some New Yorkers are ...
Although tap dancing has fallen out of play somewhat in modern film, it is still very much alive onstage and is one of the most popular forms of dance taught at studios across the nation, including ...
MOUNT AIRY — Bruno Mars blaring from a portable player, seven ladies step forward in unison. Their feet clicking in sync to the beat and each other, they leap, flap and shuffle across the activity ...
In 1989, George H.W. Bush officially declared May 25 National Tap Dance Day. (This date was chosen because it was the birthday of famous tapper Bill “Bojangles” Robinson.) So, 25 years later, we’d ...
In 2005, Constance Valis Hill had a dream. In it, the late, great Gregory Hines was dancing, and Hill, ever the academic, was frantically trying to write down all his steps on paper. He urged her not ...
Tap dancing is set for a technological leap thanks to a Hong Kong studio that will debut its electronic tap shoes in a dance drama at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre later this month. The concept for ...
THINGS HE WANTED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND, THE GIFT AND THE VALUE OF BLACK BRILLIANCE. HEY. TELLING STORIES ABOUT BLACK HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC AND TAP DANCE. BREANA ALI HAS BEEN TAP DANCING SINCE SHE ...