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Watch out everyone. We have a lot of exciting programs coming up so please take note and save the dates!
First off, on April 29th and May 6th we present our final Tap Heritage Series that ends with celebrating the life and career of Charles "Honi" Coles with Brenda Bufalino. (Check out the details below).
In June, our annual Youth Program Year-End Concert will be taking place on the Circle Line this year, so everyone in that program and their families are REALLY excited to FINALLY have an "in person" performance opportunity! Wish us a bon voyage!
Meanwhile, registration has already been launched for Tap City 2021 (July 5-10, 2021) & our annual Tap Teacher Training Program (July 12-18, 2021).
Both these programs are virtual this year. Please join us if you can!
Tony Waag
Founding Artistic Director
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VIRTUAL
Classes for Adults
On-Going/All Levels
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Classes
for Kids & Teens
January 4 - June 18, 2021
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The ATDF Youth Program begins this season with options for BOTH dedicated virtual classes and small in-person classes in our studios.
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DID YOU MISS OUR:
RHYTHM TAP TEACHER
TRAINING WORKSHOPS
You can still purchase
them by visiting:
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GIVE THE GIFT
OF TAP DANCE!
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Virtual Classes for Adults
Single Class: $12
4 Class Card: $45
8 Class Card: $82
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Tap Heritage Series
March 4 - May 6, 2021
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National Tap Dance Day
Tuesday, May 25th
12noon
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Join DeWItt Fleming Jr., Susan Hebach, Tony Waag and members of the Tap City Youth Ensemble as they celebrate
National Tap Dance Day!
Free and open to the Public Event!
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson Playground
269 W 150th Street
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ATDF Virtual Tap Teacher Training |
July 12-18, 2021
Rhythm Tap instructors across the globe gather online this summer to learn Copasetic Curriculum, classic tap repertory, pedagogy, composition, jazz music skills, improvisation, history, and more!
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YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! |
Thanks to the amazing support from our friends, funders, students and their families, we have had a tremendous year of activity and we look forward to a new one.
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There are numerous instructional and performance products for purchase available now on-line. This is another way you can support the ATDF in this time of need.
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RELATED RHYTHMS
These are tap dance events we support but they are not produced by the American Tap Dance Foundation.
If you would like your tap dance event or news included, please email info@atdf.org with the who, what, where, and when by the 25th of the month prior to your event.
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CASTING SEARCH
We are currently seeking actors for the lead role in the new television series
“SAMMY”
Seeking:
[SAMMY DAVIS JR.] Actors who are able to play approximately mid 20s to mid 30s. Black, African American, Afro-Latino, Sammy is a short man who casts a long shadow. Born into a family of entertainers, Sammy grows up to overshadow his father and his uncle (the three of them form The Will Mastin Trio), because his talent as a singer-dancer shines so brightly. Plagued throughout his life by the demon of racism (which he chooses to mock all his life with an endless string of flat, unfunny jokes), Sammy gradually molds himself into a complete entertainer -- but he pays a high price for his success; his love life is a series of failed, shallow relationships, he loses an eye in a car accident in California, and he becomes a junior member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack (though he may be the most talented of Frank's Vegas insomniac crew). Barely able to believe that the Civil Rights movement will someday let his father sleep in the same hotel as a white man, Sammy continues to perform for decades, converting to Judaism along the way, and possibly at last finding love with Altovise Davis -- or possibly just getting tired of an endless quest for sex and settling for stability. A lifelong smoker, Sammy's life is shortened by his habit, and ends soon after he is presented with a devil's bargain: lose his voice or lose his life...LEAD. Actors must be able to portray 5'8" and under. Must be able to dance and sing.
STORYLINE: This is the life of SAMMY DAVIS JR., a supremely talented singer-dancer-actor, a complete entertainer, who always regards himself as a short ugly Black man with an unstoppable drive to perform. Sammy fights to find his place in the sun, in a world he believes to be owned and operated by white men.
If you are interested in submitting your audition, please visit the link below for more information:
It is free to submit through this page.
THIS IS NOT AN OFFER FOR NOR GUARANTEE OF EMPLOYMENT.
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Staff
Tony Waag - Artistic/Executive Director
Susan Hebach - Youth Program/TCYE Director
Liz Carroll - Studio Operations Manager
Margaret Morrison - Education Advisor
Mark Kellogg - Design
Morgan McMahon - Social Marketing
Board of Directors
Debra Beard
Mercedes Ellington
Maurice Hines
Pamela Koslow Hines
Nancy Kremsdorf
Linda Murray
Cynthia J. Roush
Randy Skinner
Kim Thacker - ATDF President
Tony Waag - ATDF Artistic/Executive Director
Emeritus Board
Brenda Bufalino
Hoagy B. Carmichael
the late Charles "Honi" Coles
the late Gregory Hines
the late Bobby Short
Supporters
The American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. would like to thank the following for their generous support: New York Community Trust, New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, the David Kellogg Family Foundation, Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Tsunami Foundation - Anson and Debra Beard, Jr. and Family, and numerous individuals, friends and families.
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