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Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival (Eighth Annual) / Tony Waag [festival]
- Title
- Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival (Eighth Annual) [Festival]
- Performer
- Waag, Tony
- Published/Created
- 2008-07-08
- Genre
- Festival
- Venue
- Symphony Space
- Abstract
- New York City Tap Festival
July 6-July 11, 2008
Tony Waag, Artistic Direcctor/Producer
Eighth Annual Tap City Festival. Held at Chelsea Dance Studios and Symphony Space, 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.
2008 International Tap Dance Hall of Fame Inductees: Cook and Brown (Ernest "Brownie" Brown and Charles "Cookie" Cook) and Stump and Stumpy (Harold "Stumpy" Cromer and James "Stump" Cross) of the Two-Man Comedy Teams; Mabel Lee; and the late Jimmy Slyde. 2008 Hoofer Award: Derick K. Grant, Tina Pratt. 2008 Tap Preservation Award: Ann Kilkelly; 2008 Tap Teacher Awards: Pamela Raff; 2008 Toe Knee Award: Hjordis Linn.
Performances:
Tap Forward (July 8)
Master of Ceremonies Tony Waag; Musical Director/Drums Bernice "Boom Boom" Brooks; Piano, Theo Hill; Bass, Joe Fonda
"Vertebrae by Vertebrae" (dancers/choreography) Michelle Dorrance, Dormeshia Sumbry Edwards, Derick K. Grant; "Phenomenal Woman" (Chloe Arnold); Tap Tap (Tina Pratt, Barry Harris, piano); "Monkish" (Andrew J. Nemr and CPD Plus [Cats Paying Dues] with Orlando Hernandez, Gemini Quintos, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Rebecca Snow); "People Get Read"y (Kazu Kumagai with Masa Shimizu on guitar); Bahia (Josette C. Wiggan); "Capella Josh" (Josh Hilberman chor. with Michelle Dorrance, Carson Murphy); Act II Opening, Jason Samuels Smith; Anacruses Revisited (Tapestry Dance Company, chor. Acia Gray: Jason Janas, body percussion, dancers: Brenna Kuhn, Tasha Lawson, Jason Janas, Jacqueline Coleman, Mathew Shields, Katelyn Thompson, Tony Merriwether, Siobhan Cook); "Hallelujah (Michela Marino Lerman); "I've Never Been in Love Before" (Barbara Duffy, Tony Waag); Sukiyaki (Zen: Shoko Taniguchi & Takahiro Kobayashi, chors., advised by Derick Grant, dancers: Yuki Adachi, Daisuke Omiya, Sholo Taniguchi); "Soldier's Hymn" (Barbara Duffy & Company: Duffy, Chikako Iwahori, Carson Murphy, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Lynn Schwab); "Tribute to D" (Friends and Family of Derick Grant).
Youth & Adult Showcase (July 9)
Tap Youth/Tap Future (July 10)
Mistress of Ceremonies Michele Ribble; Musical Director/Drummer Bernice "Boom Boom" Brooks, Jess Jurkovic, Piano, Joe Fonda, Bass.
Tap City Pre-Professional Program; Dario Natarelli; TYCE Aprentice II & TCYE III; Vortex Dance Center Tap Boys; The Legacy Dancers; Kaitlyn Frank; Belle Abbott; David Rider's World of Tap; Tap City Youth Ensemble I & II; Kaboom...KaTap!; The Metro-Gnomes; Caleb Teicher; Basel Youth Tap Ensemble; Vortex Dance Center; Jared Sprague; Tap City's Pre-Professional Program Repertory B.
Tap & Song (July 11)
Master of Ceremonies Tony Waag; Musical Direcctor/Drums Bernice "Boom Boom" Brooks; Piano, Theo Hill; Bass, Joe Fonda
"I'm Beginning to See the Light" (Tony Waag); "Eleanor Rigby" (chor. Michelle Dorrance; Tap City Youth Ensemble: Erika Cauerlein, Warren Craft, Joanna DeRosa, Kaitlyn Frank, Jaclyn Goldstein, Amanda Hameline, Taylor Hammond, Emily Newman, Tamii Sakurai, Danier Starer Stor, Shamfa Tittle, Allie Tsubota & Kaitlyn Way; "Over the Rainbow" (Acia Gray); "Opposites" (Kendrik Jones, Melinda Sullivan); "Bounce" (C3 Tap Co-operative: chor. Monifa Kincaid-Coasum; dancers: Brandy Lynn Blaha, Monifa Kincaid-Coaxum, Tony Mayes, Ruth Rosendaal, Arleigh Rothenberg, Courtney Runft, Awoye ltimpo); "All of Me" (Karen Callaway Williams); "...by the riverside" (Hank Smith); "Mongo T" (chor. Max Pollak; dancers: Warren Craft, Chikako Owahor, Carson Murphy, Max Pollak, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Lynn Schwab); "Hands" (Konstantin Nevretdinov); "Old Man Time" (chor. Charles "Cookie" Cook and Ernest "Brownie" Brown, restaged by Reginald McLaughlin, dancers: students from the Brownie & Reggio Residency; "It's Sand, Man" (dancers & chor: Susan Hebach, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Tony Waag); "Lover Come Back to Me" (DeWitt Fleming and Jared Grimes); "A Well Dressed Man" (Tapestry Dance Company, Acia Gray dir, chor. Harold Cromer [from "This is the Army" 1943]); "Sway" (Ann Kilkelly, Tony Waag, Carol Birch Brown); "Flame" (Brenda Bufalino); "Ain't Misbehavin'" (Mable Lee and her Dancing Ladies: Maud Arnold, Ali Bradley, Marietta Clark, Michelle Dorrance, Karida Griffith, Yuka Kameda, Monica Kendall, Michela Lerman, Traci Mann, Beverly Moore, Carson Murphy, Claudia Rahardjanoto, Courtney Runft, Shoko Taniguchi); "Homage to Jimmy (Sarah Petronio).
Tap Talks/Tap Films
(July 6) Tap Teacher Talk--Teaching Rhythm Tap Across the Globe, mod. Margaret Morrison, Michelle Dorrrance, and Derick Grant; (July 7) Two-Man Teams: Cook & Brown, Stump & Stumpy, moderated by Hank Smith; (July 8) In Memory of Jimmy Slyde (1927-2008), moderated by Sarah Petronio; (July 9) Jazzing Women: Mable Lee and Tina Pratt, moderated by Ann Kilkelly; (July 10) Shoot Me While I'm Happy: a celebration of Jane Goldber's new book, moderated by Constance Valis Hill; (July 11) Suits and Heels, tap historians Constance Valis Hill and Margaret Morrison show video footage and discuss what the shoe and the suit meant to women hoofers through the decades. - 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. ().
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