New York Exploring the thematic and visual diversity of the photographic medium, Swann Galleries’s auction of Photographs & Photobooks on Thursday, May 27 covers twentieth-century .
Dormeshia, the Queen of tap dance, helps bring the legend of Bill Bojangles Robinson to stage
Dormeshia has co-created a show about tap dancer and activist Bill Bojangles Robinson with choreographers Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith.
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Posted: May 19, 2021 12:58 PM ET | Last Updated: May 19
Dormeshia is one of the world s foremost tap dancers. Along with Derick K. Grant and Jason Samuels Smith, she s created a new show about Bill Bojangles Robinson.(Joyce Theatre, Tap Family Reunion, Christopher Duggan)
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Tap the joyful art!
By Marilyn Delk - DCCA News
Our daughter is a dancer. Oh, not professionally; Melissa works as an educator, teaching third graders. But at age 56, she continues to take tap dance lessons at Dayton Ballet School, spontaneously breaks into an energetic dance routine when feeling like it, and entertains her students by teaching them how to shuffle while they wait in line for lunch or the bus. I always viewed her tap dance talents as fun and delightful, but not artful like ballet. Then I watched the CBS Sunday Morning story on the history and cultural value of this truly American art form; and I changed my mind.
The art form, born of diverse dance traditions brought to America, has recently experienced an encore of popularity thanks to a new generation of tap artists.