New York City Tap Extravaganza 2000 Concert 2000-05-28 May 28, 2000 The New York City Tap Extravaganza, produced by the New York Committee to Celebrate National Tap Dance Day, The Town Hall, New York City. Co-chairmen and co-producers Al Heyward and Carl Schlesinger. Master of Ceremonies Ted Levy. Performers include the Junior Boys of the Ruth Williams Dance Studio (Omar Edwards, dir., Kirov, Robert, Hakim, Tyrice, and Melvin), The Silver Belles (Amrion Coles, dir., Elaine Ellis, Cleo Hayes, Fay Rae, Bertye Lou Wood), The Flintstone Hoofers (Alexandria Bradley, Frances Bradley, Anthony Campbell, Natasha Graham, Kandee Hogan, Quinn Johnson, Alyce Jones, Dionte Lee, Shatarian Lee-Hall, Brian Maclin, Bridget Maclin, Shanzell Page, Ashley Swanigan, Richard Swanigan, Troy Swanigan, Tasheena Thompson, Jarel Waters, Ricky Williams), Beauteez 'n The Beat (Roxane Butterfly, dir., Charon Aldredge, Michela Marino Lerman, Sarah Savelli, Honey Rockwell, Colleen Miss Twist, and spoken word artist Sayo Ogundiran) with musicians Bernice Brooks (percussion), Sweet Sue Terry (saxophone); Ted. L. Levy, Mable Lee, Dianne Walker, and Jimmy Slyde, with a Closing Shim Sham Dance Dedicated to Departed Tappers and Friends: Al Grey, Vivian Harris, Fred Kelly. Music by the Frank Owens Trio: Owens (piano), Lisle Atkinson (bass), Bernice Books (drums). 2000 Flo-Bert Lifetime Achievement Award to Savion Glover and Leonard Reed, and the Peg Leg Bates Award for Leadership in Dance presented to James Buster Brown. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.761