Tap News

On Thursday, November 19 at 6:30 p.m., tap star Joseph Webb of "Thank You, Gregory," will teach a master class at NOCCA to work with local community students on style and technique.

If jazz is the indigenous American mu sic, then tap is the indigenous American dance form.

An all-star cast will pay tribute to the late tap legend Gregory Hines and many others in "Thank You, Gregory!" at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov.

This year's annual fundraising gala American Friends of Rabin Medical Center "Broadway on the Hudson" Gala is being held on the historic Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum on Monday, November 2, 2009 with Larry King hosting for his 8th year.

As a child, David Cox was so hyperactive that no babysitter would look after him, so his mother, a dance instructor, brought him into the studio with her.

Students work the stage during Tapology at the Flint Institute of Music on Sunday.

By TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Gregory Hines was only 57 when he died in 2003, but he was considered his generation's greatest tap dancer.

The show, a a behind the scenes' glimpse into the colourful world of the cult TV personality and tap dancer, runs for a limited season - from Sunday, December 13 to Tuesday, December 29, 2009.

October 12, 2009, 6:53 AM / OLAFFUB SEZ: Advice from comedian and activist Dick Gregory, born on this date in 1932: "Don't you young people let the old folk tell you about the good old days.

Anyone who has ever donned a pair of tap shoes, or wished that they could, should rush down to the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts for a performance of "Thank You Gregory, A Tribute to the Legends of Tap," featuring special guest star, Maurice Hines.

I'd never seen a feminist tap-dance number before. But there it was, just one of the dozen brilliantly executed sequences in Thank You Gregory: A Tribute to the Legends of Tap, which had its world premiere at the Annenberg Center on Tuesday night.

In the world of tap dance, there are still arguments about whether the form began in Ireland with step dancing and migrated to African slaves in the South and then to Appalachia where it morphed into clogging - or some version of that in reverse.

Using the floor as a drum and her feet as an instrument, tap dancer Ouida Lewis is a musician of unusual calibre.

Tony nominee Maurice Hines, brother and partner of the legendary Gregory Hines, will star in the world premiere of "Thank You Gregory, A Tribute to the Legends of Tap," playing Oct.

TAP Great dancing from Gregory Hines and a host of amazing old-timers, and not much story to get in the way of their moves.

Broadway star and brother/partner of the legendary Gregory Hines, Maurice Hines guest stars in Thank You Gregory, A Tribute to the Legends of Tap October 6-10, A Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, 3680 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA, launching Dance Celebration's 28th season, The Magic of Movement .

Feeling done up after a week of teaching? I recommend a dose of the Nicholas Brothers.

Emmy Award winner Jason Samuels Smith plus eight other leading dancers, video montages, music and narrative combine to celebrate tap dance's history, artistry and rhythms in "Thank You, Gregory!" at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct.

Tommy Tune, the six foot six, 70-year-old Broadway legend, is planning a one-night performance on September 21 of his memoir-via-song-and-dance road show, Steps in Time , at the Gerald Lynch Theater at John Jay College.

Genevieve Spinelli began her dancing career specializing in "Tap" under the tutelage of Veronica Zunino.