New York City Tap Extravaganza 2005 Concert 2005-05-29 Haft Auditorium, Fashion Institute of Technology The New York City Tap Extravaganza, produced by the New York Committee to Celebrate National Tap Dance Day, Haft Auditorium of the Fashion Institute of Technology. Co-chairwomen Traci Mann and Barbara Shenton. Masters of Ceremony Van "The Man" Porter and Robert L. Reed. Performers include David Rider's World of Tap, Margaret Morrison, Abron Glover, Sarah Petronio and Leela Petronio, Van Porter, The Young Hoofers, Generation Tap, Charon Aldredge, Michela Marino Lerman and Kendrick Jones II, The LaVaughn Robinson Dancers, Germaine Ingram, Mable Lee, Robert L. Reed, Opus One, Dr. Jimmy Slyde, with Closing Shim Sham Dedicated to Departed Friends Bobby Short, Artie Shaw, Stan Levey. Music by the Frank Owens Trio: Owens (piano), Lisle Atkinson (bass), Bernice Brooks (drums). 2005 Flo-Bert Life Achievement Awards to Harold Cromer, Cobi Narita, LaVaughan Robinson. 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.766