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Jane Goldberg's Belly Tap for World Peace / Jane Goldberg [concert]
- Title
- Jane Goldberg's Belly Tap for World Peace [Concert]
- Performer
- Goldberg, Jane
- Published/Created
- 2005-11-04
- Genre
- Concert
- Venue
- Blue Mountain Gallery
- Abstract
- Running weekends in November (4-6, 11-13, 18-20), Jane Goldberg, the proclaimed Tap Goddess of the Lower East Side and feminist tap artist who was instrumental in launching the tap renaissance in the 70s/80s, performs a solo meditation with talking and taps (and the Middle-Eastern art of belly dance) on the war and peace.
She performs in a space ringed with paintings by Owen Gray of what looks like Paradise before Adam and Eve arrived.
"Ms. Goldberg does not fit any conventional image of a dancer...Feet chattering along in all manner of complex and basic rhythms and steps,..she finds rhythms for 'daquiri' and 'erestroika' in her sung and dance tapograms, whose subjects include Mikhail Gorbachev and Gregory Hines' father Maurice. And she discloses that, just as her mother claimed, tap was actually started by a Jewish woman. That woman, Ms. Goldberg says, was Batsheva Goldberg, who tapped her foot waiting for God to appear and, seeing the possibilities, toured the world with an act called "The Wandering Shoes." Who knew?"
(Jennifer Dunning, "Strapping on Schmooze Shoes" New York Times November 7, 2005.)
Last Updated: 12-16-2015