Tap

2022 - 9 - 29

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Image courtesy of "Dance Magazine"

Jumaane Taylor, Tap Dancer and Artistic Director of Chicago ... (Dance Magazine)

I believe I dance because I am thankful to believe in God. This art form I practice comes from a spiritual tradition, and I feel the history of that ...

Each experience leads me into the life I am blessed to live, only as a tap dancer. They uplifted the form as a community with each distinctive voice, for the world to witness The Creator’s rhythmical creation…tap dance, where I feel our Creator every time. That community was a multicultural group dedicated to preserving tap dance: Practicing professionals of all ages, with genuine respect and common understanding, sharing as well as performing perspectives at the festival. (Not to mention their legendary showmanship in The Birth of Television, as if their livelihoods depended on the film.) To the queen who established the way a body should move in tap dance, Lois Bright—superbly displayed within her feature during Hi De Ho, from 1947. I believe I dance because I am thankful to believe in God. From a minstrel clip of The Three Eddies, a singing and tap-dancing trio who displayed the fastest taps I’ve ever heard.

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