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THANK YOU to everyone who participated in the 2011 celebration! You were amazing! Tucson is celebrating National TAP Dance Day (NTDD)This year's tap weekend is packed with activities for dancers, observers, and students ages 10 & up, beginners to advanced. The brochure (download above) contains details on every aspect of the weekend and the link to the bios pages has descriptions of our faculty and performers. Here are the highlights:
These activities are being prepared for this year's 3rd celebration of this very special Tap Day that has been around since November 7, 1989! Our special guest this year is Nian Cadman-Dake from Phoenix. Nian is originally from Youngstown, Ohio, where she had a successful studio for 20 years. She started dancing at seven and had her own dance studio in her parent's basement before graduating high school. Her students won many titles and had great performance opportunities. One of them was performing in 14 U.S.O. shows for which Nian received a citation from Bob Hope. Nian's teachers were Jack Stanley, Ernest Carlos, Jack Pottiger, Ronn Daniels, Stan Mazin, Bob Audy, Luigi, Jo Jo Smith and Danny Daniels, to name just a few. You can read more about Nian in the bios page. She will be teaching two classes on Saturday morning. Everyone (even non-dancers) is welcome to observe the master classes for a nominal fee. Read details in the brochure above. Other faculty include Greg Varlotta, a Phoenix multi-instrumentalist jazz musician who has created a music notation system for tap dance called FootNotes. Tucson's tap master Frank Trent, returns to teach us about the styles of tap and talk about Vaudeville in our lecture/demo on the history of tap on Sunday at 4:30. Suzy Guarino and Jenefer Miller of Tap 24.7 (Phoenix) return bringing more contemporary tap work. Jenefer will be teaching intermediate level choreography. Chrissy Jones is a Chicagoan now at the UofA and the former director of (Talent Forum's) Footprints Tap Ensembles I & II. Her focus will be on improvisation preparing our dancers for the TAP JAM that culminates our weekend celebration. Suzy, Jenefer & Chrissy will head up the new Youth TAP Intensive for highly skilled tap dancers ages 10-12. Tucson's Megan Maltos (Danswest) will teach the Nicholas Brothers' Lucky Numbers as one of our missions is to recreate American Masterpieces. Last year Megan and her dancers performed Moses from Singing In The Rain. Beginners will have an opportunity to have an energetic tap warm-up each morning and learn Honi Coles' Stroll with NTDD producer KP Black. As Honi said, "If you can walk, you can tap dance." There will be a free showing of Gotta Dance! Women in Tap on Saturday at 12:30 pm. Come see the women responsible for keeping tap thriving coast to coast. They are remarkable. We thank our sponsors this year: Arizona Commission on the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Arizona Dance Coalition, Ackerly Adversing and DancInc. Your support is significant to us and to the dance community in Arizona that values and wants to preserve and celebrate a dance art form "made in the U.S.A. ~ TAP!" If you would like to be a sponsor or contribute to the raffle/auction, please contact Krystyna at 520/743-1349. We would be happy to add you to the list of sponsors on the left. |
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PERFORMANCE MASTER CLASSES LECTURE/DEMONSTRATION & TAP JAM PERFORMANCEThe performance will be at the Pima Community College Center for the Arts Proscenium Theatre (PCC CFA), West Campus, 2202 W Anklam, Tucson, Arizona USA 85709 (West of I10 on St Mary's/Anklam to Greasewood)If you're not going to be onstage but own tap shoes, bring them and join us at the end of each show for the Shim Sham. Sounds of the Soles of the Southwest Saturday, May 21, 7 pm Tickets are $15 in advance, $20 at the door, $10 for students with I.D. & members of the Arizona Dance Coalition. View the bios page for a complete list of performers (ongoing updates). Call PCC CFA Box Office: 520-206-6986 or EMAIL. Tickets may be purchased online at Brown Paper Tickets May 1-20. See link at the top of the page. LECTURE / DEMONSTRATION & TAP JAMSunday, May 22, 4:30 pm There are only 425 seats available to see the lecture/demo on the history on tap dance. A presentation follows by master class participants of work they have learned over the weekend and dances they would want to share with everyone. The Youth TAP Intensive will demonstrate their rhythmic combinations and musical footwork as well. The event will end with a TAP JAM - a session of improvisation and challenge! All are invited to Shim Sham on stage for the event finale.
MASTER CLASSESThe deadline for Early Bird discounts is May 1. After May 15, registrations will be at the door only. Ten classes are scheduled to be held on the stage of the Proscenium Theatre at PCC CFA. Instructors are Nian Cadman-Dake (Phoenix), Greg Varlotta (Phoenix), KP Black (Tucson), Frank Trent (Tucson) and Suzy Guarino and Jenefer Miller of Tap 24.7 (Phoenix), Chrissy Jones (Chicago) and Megan Maltos (Tucson). Classes are open to the public. Observer's fee applies except for the film presentation of Gotta Move! Women in Tap on Saturday at 12:30 pm which is free and open to the public. The schedule, registration forms and brochure can be downloaded (see links at the top).• BE A SPONSER EMAIL or call Krystyna at 520-743-1349, Event Manager, Producer. ARIZONA DANCE COALITION (ADC) Contributions can be made to ADC, a 501(c)(3) statewide, web-based dance organization sponsoring this event. You can sponsor a dancer, a dance company, an instructor, a musician, the theatre or the entire event! Depending on the level of your generosity, your name (or anonymous) and logo will appear on this web page and in all promotional material. We'll even announce your name at each performance, at all venues and put your name/logo with a live link on the ADC website. We'll even throw in a few tickets and offer preferred seating! You will be loved. ADC will furnish you with a letter for your tax purposes. A great big THANK YOU to the View a few YouTube Clips to get you started. |
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