Philadelphia has always been a tap town and Jaye Allison brings back that tradition each year with her Philly Tap Challenge: On Fire!, a tap festival celebrating both the past and the present. This years program welcomes Emmy Award Winner, Jason Samuels Smith headlining the All-Star performing staff of JA’sPTC artists. Other highlights for this [...]
Photo by Bruce Turner. From left to right on the bandstand at LaRose Jazz Club (June 2012): Bruce Koetterer, Pamela Hetherington and Robert H. Henderson. JoAnna Turner looks on. The ninth installment of Tap Teaser, an evening of tap dance and jazz music, will be presented on June 8, 2013, 8:00 pm, at LaRose Jazz [...]
For its 7th year, Jaye Allison’s Philly TAP Challenge (PTC), honors Philadelphia’s rich history of cyclonic feet and rarely seen rhythmic talent, in a three day festival of tap dance, running Thursday, June 23rd through Saturday June 25th, 2011. Philly TAP Challenge is devoted to recognizing the treasures that Philadelphia holds for Tap, epitomized by [...]
The Philadelphia-based Leeway Foundation supports women and transgender artists who create social change through their artwork. Vernacular Motions features performances by four dancers who have received grants from the Leeway Foundation. The performances are: Uurja by Viji Rao/Three Aksha Dance Ensemble Denzel Prelude by niv Acosta Then & Now by Jaye Allison/JADA Dance Ensemble public. [...]
Posted At : July 6, 2010 7:19 PM | Posted By : Live Arts Festival & Philly Fringe Recently I was introduced to the sensational moves of the Nicholas Brothers, a world famous tap-dancing duo from a time when it was difficult for African-American artists to cross over, who got their start in Philadelphia. Last [...]
Some of the World’s Top Tap Dancers arrive in region to instruct, perform, meet and celebrate Philly. Friday-Saturday, June 26-27. For the 6th year, Jaye Allison, Founding director of New LEJA Dances, organizes Jaye Allison’s Philly TAP Challenge (JAPTC) with The Philadelphia Civic Ballet Company (the oldest dance company in the Commonwealth of PA.), to [...]
West Philly Art Rising Presents “ Divas of Dance: Extraordinary Women on a Mission” A Benefit For Haitian Hurricane Relief by Patty Bulack for The Dance Journal Artists can, and do, change the world. Dancers do this by engaging themselves heart, mind and body, to lead us to a new way of seeing and being. [...]
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