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Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival (Seventh Annual) / Tony Waag [festival]

Title

Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival (Seventh Annual) [Festival]

Performer

Waag, Tony

Published/Created

2007-07-07

Genre

Festival

Venue

Chelsea Dance Studios and Duke on 42nd Street

Abstract

July 7-14, 2007
Seventh Annual Tap City Festival. Held at Chelsea Dance Studios and the Duke on 42nd Street Theatre, NYC. Festival features tap courses and classes, for youth, teens, and adults, performances, gala, annual Tap Dance Hall of Fame Induction, Tap Preservation Award, Hoofer Awards, Tap Teacher Awards, Toe Knee Award, panel discussions, tap talks/tap films, tap jams.

2007 International Tap Dance Hall of Fame Inductees: Leon Collins, Eddie Brown; 2006 Hoofer Award: Deborah Mitchell; 2006 Tap Preservation Award: Susan Goldbetter; 2006 Tap Teacher Awards: Carolyn Miles; 2006 Toe Knee Award: Michelle Ribble.

Tap City 2007 hosted 340 students from 28 states and 16 countries dancing in 91 classes with a tap faculty of 37. A cast of 206 performers danced in eight shows over four days to an audience of 1438.

(July 11) Tap Youth/Tap Future with Michelle Ribble, Master of Ceremonies: Alpha Tap (Claudia Leoni); Dario Natarelli (Robert Reed, chor); David Rider's World of Tap (Rider); Tap City Youth Ensemble III (Margaret Morrison, chor); The Legacy Dancers (Thelma Goldberg); Tap Sensations (Carolyn Miles); The Rhinebeck Dance Center (Michele Ribble); Tap City Youth Ensemble I & II (Susan Hebach & Margaret Morrison); Eddie Brown BS Chorus; Warren Craft, "The Best is Yet to Come"; Duff-Tap Kids (Alexander Ivashkevich); Tap City Youth Ensemble I & II "Got To Move" (Jared Grimes, chor.); Tap City's Pre-Professional Program Repertory C (Max Pollak, chor.); Taylor Hammond, "Fever"; The Metro-Gnomes (Michele Ribble); Caleb Teicher, "Monk"; Puspa (dir. Mari Fujibayashi); Tap City Pre-Professional Program Repertory B (Derick Grant, chor.).

(July 12) Tap Internationals with Tony Waag, Master of Ceremonies: Izzici (South Africa/USA); Freezing (Finland) Jusi Lindroos ; Freedom (Taiwan) Reco Cheng and Ringo Yang; The Panther (Russia/Estonia) Alexander Ishkavetch and Anton Merkulu; Pa' Los Rumberos-the G-String Mambo (Austria Japan) Max Pollak, Chikako Iwahori ; Caravan (Japan) Takahiro Kobayashi, Kazu Kumagai, Daisu,e Omiya and Sholo Taniguchi; Tribute to Carmen Miranda (Brazil Gilberto de Syllos); i-fu (Japan) Chikako Iwahori; Banjo Dance--celebration of the American spirit (USA) Rhythm in Shoes: Gina Burgei, Josh Fossitt, Emma Leahy-Good, Sharon Leahy; A Compas (Spain/USA) Andrea Del Conte, Barbara Duffy, Cristian Puig, Maya Jenkins, Theo Hill; Orisha Suite (Austria, Japan, USA, the Globe) Chikako Iwahor, Max Pollak, Lynn Schwab; Your Guess is as Good as Mine- Concerto and Chick Corea's Spain (Japan) Kazu Kumagai. With Bernice Brooks (musical director/drums), Theo Hill (piano), Joe Fonda (bass).

(July 13) Tap Forward with Tony Waag, Master of Ceremonies: Got To Move (chor. Jared Grimes) Tap City Youth Ensemble; Reunion Blues (Milt Jackson) Margaret Morrison; Baobabs (Regina Spektor) Michelle Dorrance; Mr. Kicks (Oscar Brown, Jr.) DeWitt Fleming Jr.; Summertime (Gershwin) Ayodele Casel, Michela Marino-Lerman, Carson Murphy, Sarah Savelli; By Myself (Dietz/Schwartz) Tony Waag; Charlie's Angels (Charlie Parker) Jason Samuels Smith; Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Chloe Arnold, Michelle Dorrance; With Love to Deborah Mitchell (New Jersey Tap Ensemble) Maurice Chestnut, Jessi Erian, DeWitt Fleming, Jr., Dana Fisch, Jeffery Foote, Shauna Hanlon, Stacey McFadin, Addam Stell, Karen Calloway Williams, DeWitt Fleming, Jr.; 423-4323 (Bill Lee) Barbara Duffy & Company: Michelle Dorrance, Barbara Duffy, Karida Griffith, Chikako Iwahor, Maya Jenkins, Caron Murphy, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Lynn Schwab. With Bernice Brooks (musical director/drums), Theo Hill (piano), Joe Fonda (bass).

(July 14) Tap and Song with Tony Waag, Master of Ceremonies: "I Love Being Here With You" (Terry Brock); Chatter (Jaimie Chandler, Tina Fuentes, Katharine Ponza, Germaine Salsberg); "Bye, Bye Blackbird" Brenda Bufalino; Bach to Beatles, Carol Birch Brown, Ann Kilkelly, Tony Waag; "I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles", Tony Waag and Ann Kilkelly; "53" (chor. Leon Collins) Karen Callaway Williams, Michelle Dorrance, Barbara Duffy, Thelma Goldberg, Karida Griffith, Alexander Ivashkevich, Chikako Iwahori, Maya Jenkins, Tony Mayes, Margaret Morrison, Carson Murphy, Max Pollak, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Ruth Rosendaal, Lynn Schwab, Dianne Walker, Barbara Duffy; "Little Rock Getaway" Ray Hellelink, Mary Giattino; "Time Step" Ryan Kasprzak, Brent McBeth, Derek Roland; "Only You" "I'm and Old Cowhand" "Wilhelm Tell" Mable Lee with Mable Lee Girls: Ali Bradley, Frances Bradley, Michelle Dorrance, Karida Griffith, Maya Jenkins, Rhonds Jordan, Michela Marino-Lerman, Traci Mann, Beverly Moore, Carson Murphy, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Sholo Taniguchi; "Eddie Brown's BS Chorus" (chor. Eddie Brown): Tap City Youth Ensemble I & II; "It's Almost Like Being in Love" Karen Callaway Williams; "When You're Smiling" Tony Waag, Derick K. Grant. With Bernice Brooks (musical director/drums), Frank Kimbrough (piano), Joe Fonda (bass).

July 8-13: Tap Talks, Tap Films:
(July 8) Eddie Brown: Scientific Rhythm (Sharon Arslanian)
(July 9) Tap Happy Feet (Constance Valis Hill)
(July 10) Feminine Flash (Ann Kilkelly)
(July 11) Three Takes on Cookie (Susan Goldbetter)
(July 12) Leon Collins: Flights of the Bumblebee (Pan Raff)
(July 13) Tap on Television (Billie Mahoney and Constance Valis Hill)

Source

New York Public Library: CATNYP: Dance Collection: Tap Dancing. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Gregory Hines Collection of American Tap Dance ().

American Tap Dance Foundation: American Tap Dance Foundation. http://www.atdf.org/; http://www.atdf.org/history.html ().

Hill, Constance Valis: Constance Valis Hill, personal collection of tap dance materials. ().

Last Updated: 12-16-2015