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The Michèle Drees Jazz Tap Project is a spectacular mix of rhythm, tap dance and jazz. This project works towards helping the revival of the iconic ‘jazz tap’ that originated in Harlem, and then became popularised on Hollywood’s silver screen.
The original UK Tap Dance Festival, based in beautiful vibrant Brighton. Now in its third year, Brighton Tap Festival features classes from a fantastic international faculty and fabulous evening events including a tap jam with the Michèle Drees Jazz Trio.
For more information and booking, go to brightontapfestival.org.uk.
The Michèle Drees Jazz Tap Project is a spectacular mix of rhythm, tap dance and jazz. This project works towards helping the revival of the iconic ‘jazz tap’ that originated in Harlem, and then became popularised on Hollywood’s silver screen.
Part of the Royal Albert Hall's intimate Late Night Jazz series in the Royal Albert Hall’s Elgar Room.
TAP FACTORY is a fun, rhythm-based theatre show showcasing urban tap dance and percussion, comedy and acrobatics.
TAP FACTORY is a fun, rhythm-based theatre show showcasing urban tap dance and percussion, comedy and acrobatics.
TAP FACTORY is a fun, rhythm-based theatre show showcasing urban tap dance and percussion, comedy and acrobatics.
TAP FACTORY is a fun, rhythm-based theatre show showcasing urban tap dance and percussion, comedy and acrobatics.
Michelle Dorrance brings tap into the age of electronic music with collaborator Nicholas Van Young. Tap has always been a way of talking to the stage, now with Van Young’s electronic tap boards, the stage is able to talk back, as every step, swipe, and scrape sets off an element of sound, building musical loops, turning the stage into a musical instrument in its own right.
Celebrating jazz icon Fats Waller’s life and music, New York’s finest are in town and they want you to join them. Michael Mwenso and The Shakes are joined by hoofers Michela Lerman and Joseph Wiggan for an evening of exceptional live jazz, tap dancing and inventive storytelling. Singin’ for their supper and breathing new life into classics like Ain’t Misbehavin’, Black and Blue, Honeysuckle Rose, these hip contemporary artists celebrate American jazz via their critically acclaimed style. This promises to be an unforgettable evening
The show begins a journey through quintessential jazz entangling movement within the graceful perspective of tap dance. Conversations of question and answer between soloists of the band and the performers, expose emotions and trigger manoeuvres back and forth between each art form on stage.
Lead by a live musical force the show takes an experimental ride attempting to understand a journey of falling out of love. In particular, these fervent dancers find ways to uncover their passion, love and raw relationship for tap dance. Using the sparse set up of the wooden boards concealing how love can never be defined, Fall Out pushes the boundaries of strength and intensity through the bare sounds of music and dance, articulated through complex rhythms and spectacularly technical performance.
Celebrating a decade since its launch, Sampled is a chance for dance fans and newcomers alike to enjoy a diverse range of styles from some of the world's finest dancers at a specially reduced price.
World renowned tap dancer and choreographer Kane D. Ricca presents an exploration of rhythm in time in a way that only he can, through the dynamic, intricate and expressive art of tap dance.
The Michèle Drees Jazz Tap Project is excited to have the phenomenal tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith from NYC for a one-off gig in London. Small intimate venue, last minute gig, so first come first served. They will be joined by some very special guests including Scott Cripps, Avalon Rathgeb, Adele Joel. Shanti Paul Jayasinha, Neville Malcolm, John Crawford, Michele Drees and more... Come and enjoy and network with all the wonderful tappers and musicians.
Leading body percussionist Keith Terry and percussive dancer Evie Ladin will be touring the UK from 27th January to 14th February. Check out the tour calendar for full details.
See the sound. Feel the Movement. Uncover the conversations between music and emotion through choreography and improvisation. In the space of a few years Avalon Rathgeb has quickly become one of the UK’s leading forces in Tap dance. Creating her company in September 2014, Resolution! 2015 is Old Kent Road’s first performance and are introducing to you Fall Out, With an exciting mix of different musical influences, this company’s unique collaboration combining tap dance, live music and contemporary dance creates the identity to these exceptional performers.
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