New York City Tap Festival

Azlan · **Posted:** Thu Jul 05, 2001 8:24 pm

Clickety-click in NYC: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Terpsichore Taps to ManhattanJENNIFER DUNNING, NY TimesNew York becomes Tap City for nine days starting tomorrow, when Tap City 2001: The New York City Tap Festival opens at studios and performance spaces around Manhattan. The roster of more than 90 performers from all over the world includes well-known tapsters like Jimmy Slyde, Prince Spender of the Four Step Brothers, Brenda Bufalino, Jane Goldberg, Lynn Dally, the Silver Belles and Gregory Hines. Many of the performers will also teach classes.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/06/arts/06TAP.html" TARGET=_blank>More</A>

Azlan · **Posted:** Fri Jul 13, 2001 9:25 pm

Jennifer Dunning makes a case for the new Tap: <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>The Old Tap and the New Team Up With AffectionJENNIFER DUNNING, NY TimesTap, like the rest of the world, has changed since the days of the great solo dancers. That was one message of "Tap City," the central program of the inspired New York City Tap Festival, on Thursday night at the Duke on 42nd Street. Another message was that this peculiarly American, peculiarly lovable art form is still a lot of fun to watch and even, occasionally, as exalted as those earlier tapsters, though in a different way.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/14/arts/14TAP.html" TARGET=_blank>More</A>

Azlan · **Posted:** Sun Jul 07, 2002 11:11 am

<BLOCKQUOTE>quote:<HR>Dancers Create a Global Village in Manhattan Trading on the Tap Floor by Brian Seibert Village VoiceDancing feet on 42nd Street will multiply in July as hundreds of hoofers arrive for "Tap City," the second annual New York tap festival. For the tap "community," the event is a family reunion—a chance to network, reminisce, bicker, and show off.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE><a href=http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0226/seibert.php target=_blank>More</a>

kurinuku · **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 9:19 am

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Shoes in the Night: How the Festival Took Over Tap
by JANE GOLDBERG for the New York Times

Tap dancers no longer travel across the country to do battle. They do travel, however, to tap festivals in the summer. The festival has become a major vehicle for tap's survival, offering classes, merchandise, showcases and performances - an answer of sorts to the vaudeville circuit and the big-band era.

published: June 26, 2005

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Diana · **Posted:** Sat Jul 02, 2005 4:59 pm

From the Mercury News,

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Tap City showcases the form's variety

CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

Associated Press

NEW YORK - Tony Waag's New York City Tap Festival kicked off a week of frenetic footwork at the Joyce Theater with a gala performance that included Brenda Bufalino, Jason Samuels Smith, the North Carolina Youth Ensemble and Michelle Dorrance, to name a few.

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Mon Jul 04, 2005 6:42 am

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A Joyful Summer Thunderstorm of Busy, Happy Feet
by GIA KOURLAS for the New York Times

Tapage, a collaboration between Mari Fujibayashi and Olivia Rosenkrantz, presented "Morango ... Almost a Tango," a contemporary work set against films of the choreographers as children; it was too brief to resonate. Michelle Dorrance and Friends closed the first act with the bubbly "Music Box."

published: June 30, 2005

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:47 am

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History on the Move
by DEBORAH JOWITT for the Village Voice

hree divas alternately soothe and challenge our ears. Bufalino, singing throatily ("A woman is jazz . . . "), makes her taps mutter, insinuate, burst out joyously. Lynn Dally's feet whisper, skillfully sly, across the stage in her tribute to the late Gregory Hines. Sarah Petronio, a mile deep into the music, improvises with pianist Frank Kimbrough, bass player Joe Fonda, and drummer Bernice Brooks — urging them on, hushing them.

published: July 12, 2005

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kurinuku · **Posted:** Thu Jul 21, 2005 1:39 am

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Celebrating the tap world's masters, mentors, and women on a larger stage
by EVA YAA ASANTEWAA for the Village Voice

Program B — "Tap Masters/Tap Divas" — paid tribute to the greats, living and deceased, from nostalgic photo montages to a charming revival of the Copasetics' chair dance.

published: July 12, 2005

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