March 2015

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Tap Teacher Training Photos by Tony Waag

Winter Adult Program 

 

Mondays

6:15 - 7:30, Beginner w/ Michela Marino-Lerman

6:15 - 7:30, Fast Beginner w/ Toni Noblett

7:30 - 8:30, Absolute Beginner w/ Michela Marino-Lerman

 

Tuesdays

12:00 - 1:00, Absolute Beginner w/ Gabe Winns  

6:15 - 7:30, Slow Intermediate w/ Derick Grant

6:15 - 7:30, Advanced Beginner w/ Lynn Schwab

 

Wednesdays

6:30 - 7:30, Beginner w/ Asha Griffith

6:30 - 7:45, Advanced Beginner w/ Barbara Duffy

 

Thursdays

6:15 - 7:30, Fast Beginner w/ Courtney Runft

7:45 - 9:00, Beginner w/ Susan Hebach

 

Fridays

6:15 - 7:30, Fast Beginner w/ Tony Waag

 

Sundays

5:15 - 6:30, Fast Beginner w/ Claudia Rahardjanoto

  

Prices:

$9     New Students 1st Class

$18   Single Class

$80   5 Class Card

$140 10 Class Card

$180 15 Class Card

 

Location:

American Tap Dance Center

154 Christopher St. #2B

New York, NY 10014

  

Sign-In and pay before you come!

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Tap City 2015

 

REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

 

July 5 - 11, 2015

 

Classes for kids, teens & adults

featuring:

  

Youth Program-ages 9-15

4-Day Tap Repertory Intensives with professional choreographers Felipe Galganni, Sarah Reich & Melinda Sulivan.

  

Pre-Professional Program-ages 14-19 by video audition only

4-Day Choreography Residency with Sarah Petronio assisted by Acia Gray and Leela Petronio.

 

Adult Program Residencies and Master Classes

4-Day Choreography Residencies with teachers Baakari Wilder, Germaine Goodson,Michelle Dorrance,  and Acia Gray

2 Days of 16 different master classes, from 14 different teachers!

 

Plus 2 different professional shows, 1 student showcase, tap awards, a tap-jam cruise of NYC's waterways, and the outdoor performance Tap It Out!

 

 Click Here for full info and registration

 

Opening Night: Rhythm in Motion 

 

Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Reception & Silent Auction (7-7:30pm)

Show & Live Auction (7:30-9pm)

 

The Theater at the 14th Street Y

344 East 14th Street @ 1st Ave

 

Join us as we celebrate with performances by leading tap dancers, choreographers, special guests and ATDF students.

 

Directly benefits the Gregory Hines Youth Scholarship Fund.

 

For tickets or to make a donation, visit: NY Charities




 

Tap Teacher Training -

Accepting Applications Now!

 

We have just completed our first Tap Teacher Training - Certificate Program and are now accepting applicants for the 2015-2016 Training.

 

A comprehensive training program in teaching rhythm tap to children, teens, and adults

 

Essential lessons based in the classic tap repertory of the Copasetic Canon

 

Training begins July 2015:

  • Rhythm tap technique
  • Copasetic Canon repertory
  • Pedagogy
  • Music concepts, tap composition & improvisation
  • Tap history
  • mentored independent work
  • certificate issued by the ATDF

What past trainees say about the program:

 

"Amazing amount of useful information"


 

"this training is wonderful . . . invaluable"

 

For more information, visit here: Tap Teacher Training

Absolute Beginner Workshop

 

6-week session - Barbara Duffy

 

February 20 - March 27

Fridays 6:15 - 7:15pm

 

April 10 - May 15

Fridays 6:15 - 7:15

 

$84/6 week workshop

 

Designed especially to give new students a chance to learn the basic steps and vocabulary of tap dance, this workshop is a great way to learn the FUNdamental skills needed to join our BEGINNER tap class, or "brush up on the basics." No experience necessary, loaner shoes are available. 

Tap Talks

 

Friday, March 20, 2015

7:30 - 9:00pm 

 

Straight from the Archives

 

Join ATDF Artistic Director Tony Waag
with a look back into the ATDF archives for rarely (or never before) seen historic footage, clips from recent tap dance productions you may have missed and seminal "bloopers" that we have just been dying to share and laugh at!

Talk held at ATDC: 
154 Christopher St. #2B

FREE for members
$5 for general public

For more information on past and upcoming talks, visit: Tap Talks

Adult Repertory Classes 

 

Advanced Beginner Repertory

Thursdays 6:15 - 7:45 w/ Susan Hebach 

 

Session 2: January 8 - March 26

12 weeks - $192

 

Session 3: April 2 - June 25

(no class April 23)

12 weeks - $192

 

Intermediate Repertory

Tuesdays 7:30 - 9:00pm w/ Lynn Schwab - Registration Full

 

Session 2: January 6 - June 23

(no class April 21)

24 weeks - $384

 

Tap Composition & Artistry *NEW*

Thursdays 7:30 - 9:00pm w/ Margaret Morrison & guest musicians

 

Session 2: January 8 - March 26

12 weeks - $192

 

Session 3: April 2 - June 25

(no class April 23)

12 weeks - $192

 

A choreo-lab for advanced and intermediate level tap dancers to explore tap composition, improvisation, and jazz music fundamentals. Students will develop their own tap performance works.

 

To register: Call 646.230.9564 or email crunft@atdf.org

Rhythm in Motion  

 

Rhythm in Motion returns to the Theater at the 14th Street Y with two fresh and innovative tap dance programs, premiering Wednesday, April 22 and running through Sunday, April 26. 

 

It features six performances over five days, showcasing the rich diversity of contemporary tap dance with a combination of young and emerging talent as well as premier choreographers in the field. 

 

Program A: April 22 - 24, 8pm
Featuring choreography by: Brenda Bufalino, Michelle Dorrance, Derick K. Grant, Jason Samuels Smith, Leonardo Sandoval Samara Seligsohn

 

Tickets: Program A Tickets

 

Program B: April 25, 3pm, April 26, 3pm & 8pm

Featuring choreography by: 
Chloe Arnold, Felipe Galganni, Susan Hebach, Kazu Kumagai, Michela Marino Lerman, Caleb Teicher Nicholas Young




 

Tap Treasures

 

ATDF is preparing for its First Annual Tap Treasures Event, a Tap Dance Hunt & Tour.

 

During the week of May 17-24th, 2015, get ready to follow your tap dance treasure maps leading you throughout New York City's most treasured and historic tap dance locations. We've picked the best tap dance points of interest in NYC, and we want you to discover them, take a photo at them, and answer special clues regarding each place .

 

A winner, which is the person/group who finishes their Tap Treasure Hunt and Tour the quickest, will be announced at a special outdoor event and performance produced by the ATDF in celebration of National Tap Dance Day. Location TBA. The winner will take home a $500 ATDF Gift Certificate, which can be used for merchandise, classes, Tap City, etc.

 

Visit the website HERE to stay tuned for full details on registration and participation in this treasured event. In the meantime, start brushing up on your tap dance history!

 

Save the Dates

 

Sunday, May 24

National Tap Dance Day Tap Attack

 

Sunday, June 21

Tap City Youth Concert

 

Saturday, June 27

ATDF Adult Program Showcase

 
        
       
                      
Tap Teacher Talks Photos by Tony Waag

RELATED RHYTHMS  

These are New York City tap dance events not produced by the American Tap Dance Foundation.

 

If you would like your tap dance event or news included, please email crunft@atdf.org with the who, what, where, and when by the 25th of the month prior to your event.

 

 

Salute to Betty Carter

Friday March 6 & Saturday March 7, 7:00pm & 9:30pm

Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Appel Room (Broadway & 60th St.)

Tickets: $45-$80, 212.721.6500

 

Betty Carter blazed her own trail as one of the most original jazz vocalists of our time. Her flawless phrasing, uncanny unpredictability, and signature glissando placed her in a league of her own as a true "musician's singer." Drummer and music director Alcester Garnett and vocalist Charenee Wade celebrate the legacy of Carter, who would have turned eighty-five this year. Tap dancing by: Alexandria Brinae Bradley, Frances Bradley & Michela Marino Lerman.

 

Brooklyn Dance Festival

Sunday March 22, 3pm and 6pm performances

Actors Fund Arts Center, 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201

 

Brooklyn Dance Festival is a platform that provides service, outreach, and performance opportunities in a state of the art theater for professional companies, emerging artists and youth ensembles in the NYC area. These dates are for the Youth Ensemble Series, other performances are happening as part of the dance festival as well. For full information, visit the Brooklyn Dance Festival website here.

 

On Tap: From Broadway to the Silver Screen

March 14, 2015, 6pm, $25

Miller Theater at Columbia University

 

A song and dance show celebrating tap dancing stars, styles and traditions featuring The Legacy Dancers (a line of former Rockettes) with guest stars Mercedes Ellington and Lee Roy Reams, as well as members of ATDF's very own Tap City Youth Ensemble! For full information and to purchase tickets, visit the Miller Theater website here.

 

American Tap Dance Foundation
Staff  
Tony Waag - ATDF Artistic/Executive Director
Susan Hebach - ATDF Youth Program/TCYE Director
Courtney Runft - ATDF Education Associate/Registrar
ATDF
Margaret Morrison - ATDF Education Advisor  
Mark Kellogg - Design
Morgan McMahon - Social Marketing 
  
Board of Directors 
Tony Waag - ATDF Artistic/Executive Director
Debra Beard - ATDF Board Chair
Mercedes Ellington
David Guilmette
Constance Valis Hill Ph.D.
Bianca Kodzoman
Pamela Koslow Hines
Nancy Kremsdorf
Erica Marks Panush
Cynthia J. Roush
Lisa M. Scotto
Randy Skinner
Kim Thacker 
Maurice Hines


 

Emeritus Board
Brenda Bufalino
Hoagy B. Carmichael
the late Charles "Honi" Coles
the late Gregory Hines
the late Bobby Short 


 

Supporters

The American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. would like to thank the following for their generous support: the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Department of Cultural Affairs, New York State Council on the Arts, the Tsunami Foundation - Anson and Debra Beard, Jr. and Family, Cigna, Stagestep, Capezio Ballet Makers, and numerous individuals, friends and families. 


 

 

 

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