Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city’s flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back. Now in his second year on the job, director Jumaane Taylor looks to put his ...

“I do think it’s tap’s time, no pun intended,” said Heidi Malnar, artistic director of the Gulf Coast Theatre on Tap. Last year, Malnar founded a new dance company in the birthplace of jazz to revive ...

“Just like Silicon Valley is a hotbed for technological innovation, there are certain pockets on the planet that are hotbeds — that are nurseries — for rhythm, for tap dance: New York, Tokyo, Chicago.

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...

Shuffle, ball, change. Aaaaaand, dig! Those are the only tap dance words that stuck with me from the beginner adult class I took last fall. Turns out, you need rhythm to tap, and I’ve got zero. But it ...

The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP) has announced its upcoming 2024-25 season, a dramatic exploration of tap and percussive dance through an blistering array of events and initiatives including ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick A jazz trio and three other dancers join Dormeshia for a classy, classic program filled with swing. By Brian Seibert It comes as no ...

The Carnegie is set to tap - pun intended - into one of the most exuberant forms of dance when its latest production takes the stage. "I GOT RHYTHM will transport guests to the golden age of tap. It ...

Tap festivals have been pivotal in passing on tradition. But New York’s has been canceled and the institution that supports it faces an uncertain future. By Brian Seibert Our dance critic on the ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - It’s the strike on the floor creating a rhythmic sound that has Michele Selvanto-Kowalski excited for more. “I get chills when I teach it; I get chills when I talk about it ...

STL Rhythm Collaborative brings teaching to tap dancing Mostly Tap started to bring their tap-dancing tunes across the St. Louis region but it was then that the dance company realized they wanted to ...