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GOTTA MOVE: WOMEN IN TAP, a lively documentary that chronicles one weekend in the life of some of today’s most extraordinary tap dancers, who just happen to be women, acknowledging their contributions to the renaissance of tap.
Profiles, tributes, and fan sites for some of the most famous female tap dancers of the past and present.
27 lut 2016 · Conceived and directed by First Company Dancer Meg Sarachan, "Dollar", a narrative dance film, combines contemporary music with a vintage theme of the 1940s working woman, allowing us to blur the line between Broadway and rhythm tap, fusing the two into one piece of choreography.
Ayodele Casel, a Doris Duke Artist in the dance category, is an award-winning and critically acclaimed tap dancer and choreographer. Born in The Bronx and raised in Puerto Rico, her practice centers highly narrative works rooted in expressions of selfhood, culture and legacy.
She starred in a string of musicals during the 1940s and ’50s and tapped with the tap legend Fred Astaire in Easter Parade. One of the few female tap dancers who made it big, her six-minute tap performance in the movie The Thrill of Brazil remains one of her notable performances.
Tap may not always get the recognition it deserves but this classic genre will never go out of style. So kick up your heels and enjoy part two of our Top Ten Female Dancers, and be sure to check out part one if you haven't already.
8 lip 2024 · One of the world’s greatest living tap dancers, Dianne Walker has been called the “Ella Fitzgerald of Tap dance.” Throughout her 30-year career, she has appeared on Broadway, on television, in film, on the international dance circuit, and in jazz clubs.
