A woman is still teaching tap dancing at age 95, despite having a heart problem and two hip replacements. Joy Saunders has been doing tap since she was eight and is still teaching a class at Penzance ...
CAMBRIDGE - Writer, dancer, choreographer and actor Ayodele Casel is telling her own story in a world premiere piece at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Diary of a Tap Dancer ...
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A unique competition is taking place this Friday -- a tap dance off between a 13-year-old boy and a 97-year-old woman. The fall fundraiser for the Honeycomb Project, a Chicago ...
Marj Dailey already had completed one costume change and was ready to begin her solo tap dance to "April Showers." Wearing a short blue tunic, pink boa, white sequined belt and carrying an umbrella, ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Tap festivals have been pivotal in passing on tradition. But New York’s has been canceled and the institution that supports it faces an uncertain ...
Juanita Pitts. Jeni Le Gon. Cora LaRedd. Louise Madison. Marion Coles. Nearly every time she’s handed a microphone, tap dancer Ayodele Casel finds a way to invoke these names: the names of the women ...
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 ...
Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...