- Description
Tap Dance America is a reference work of bibliographic information and does not point to digitized versions of the items described. The Library of Congress may or may not own a copy of a particular film or video. To request additional information Ask a Librarian.
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Dance On / Sarah Petronio [television/video]
- Title
- Dance On [Television/Video]
- Performers
- Petronio, Sarah
- Mahoney, Billie
- Published/Created
- 1994-06-13
- Genre
- Television/Video
- Abstract
- Recording from the public access cable television program "Dance On." Produced by Bill Mahoney in association with Dance Films Association, directed by Ann Kelly. Videotaped on June 13 1994. Tap dancer Sarah Petronio discusses the terms "jazz tap" and "rhythm tap" and her preference for a "jazz mode" in dancing. She remembers her childhood in India where she began dancing and developed a taste for jazz music in cosmpolitan Bombay. After immigrating to New York, she studied tap dancing with Henry LeTang, but only began to find her own style after moving to Paris. She credits Jimmy Slyde with freeing her from the prevalent conception of tap dancing as set routines. She discusses improvisation in tap dancing, and the importance of collaboration and communication between dancers and musicians.
- 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 ().
Last Updated: 12-16-2015