Juanita Pitts. Jeni Le Gon. Cora LaRedd. Louise Madison. Marion Coles. Nearly every time she’s handed a microphone, tap dancer Ayodele Casel finds a way to invoke these names: the names of the women ...

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"I'm a tap dancer," said Jason Samuels Smith. "Some people would say a hoofer. Some people would say foot percussionist. Some people would say organic mathematician!" There are a lot of ways to ...

A legend of tap dance for seven decades has died. Maurice Hines gained fame with his brother Gregory as the Hines Brothers, delighting audiences on stage, television, and film. Jeffrey Brown has our ...

Manchester native Aaron Tolson has a successful career as a professional tap dancer and teacher. But this year he’s dipping into a different art form: writing children’s books. The book is set in ...

EXPLORES IDENTITY AND LEGACY IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PLAY. IT’S CALLED DIARY OF A TAP DANCER, AND IT’S PREMIERING ON STAGE THIS MONTH AT THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER IN CAMBRIDGE. JOINING US NOW IS ...

Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...

Getting the opportunity to watch a true virtuosic talent is rare. Thankfully, Cambridge residents and visitors can watch Ayodele Casel in “Diary of a Tap Dancer” at the American Repertory Theater ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Bril Barrett has been transforming lives through tap dancing in Chicago for decades, giving students a creative escape from the inner city. The National Endowment for the Arts has ...

The iconic and Hall of Fame tap dancer Bunny Briggs once said: “Tap dancing was never lost, people just lost tapping.” For the past 25 years at the Tapology Festival in Flint, tap hasn’t been lost. It ...