A note from the Artistic Director |
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Wow, are we all ready for 2021 or what? |
Greetings everyone!
The New Year is just around the corner and I for one am ready for it. 2020 has been very challenging to say the least, but I am counting my blessings and I'm happy to report that the ATDF is still producing and presenting numerous programs despite the pandemic.
The American Tap Dance Foundation has been VERY lucky, all things considered, and we are ever so thankful for all the support and recent donations we continue to receive each day.
Both our ongoing Youth & Adult Program Classes will resume on January 4th, and then in February and March we plan on producing additional "Legacy" Workshops so keep an eye open for these new offerings. Details coming soon.
Meanwhile, we wish you all a wonderful holiday season and please have a safe and Happy Happy New Year!
Tony Waag
Founding Artistic Director
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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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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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VIRTUAL
Classes for Adults
On-Going/All Levels
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Begin again JANUARY 4, 2021
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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.
Registration for returning students is in process now! Stay tuned for weekly updates.
We encourage early registration, but will work with families who need more time to decide how to choose their class options for the fall.
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NEXT
RHYTHM TAP TEACHER
TRAINING WORKSHOP
Monday, January 11, 2021
(12:00-2pm est)
Flash! Rhythm Tap Technique for Pull Backs, Wings, Slides, and Trenches
with Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison
Join us for rhythm tap enrichment and new teaching ideas to bring to your tap students.
Dexter Jones and Margaret Morrison lead a dance and history session for teachers on the technique of hitting tap’s most most exciting steps: flash material of pull backs, wings, slides, trenches (and over the tops, if we have time).
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Dexter will lead exercises and specific techniques to pass these essential, classic skills on to your students, and he’ll speak of his Broadway and performing experience with choreographers who have specialized in flash.
Margaret will address how to start your very beginners with hop shuffling steps that get them ready for flash at higher levels. She’ll present videos and tap history that you can share with students.
Flash emerged from the very earliest African-American Buck and Wing dancing at the turn of the 20th century and has a featured role in one of our oldest dances, the BS Chorus. Flash tap took the dance world by storm in the 1930s and 40s as tap dancers, like the Nicholas Brothers or the Miller Brothers and Lois, sought new heights of excellence to express the soaring horn lines of big band jazz.
Workshop is geared towards tap teachers. The dance segment will be for Intermediate/Advanced tap dancers. Students should wear tap shoes and have a dance space to work in.
Tuition: $20 for 2-hour Workshop
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TONY'S TAP TV
Tap Internationals
Sunday, January 17, 2021
(2pm EST)
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Twenty years ago we presented an evening of tap dance soloists and ensembles from Austria, Brazil, Estonia, France, Germany, Israel, Japan, Portugal & Switzerland.
Produced by Tony Waag, this amazing production was originally premiered on Tuesday, July 10th at Tap City in 2001.
Live moderation and discussion
in the chat room!
Free and Open to the Public! Or pay what you want and we will consider it a donation!
Visit: atdf.org/donate
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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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ANNOUNCEMENT
Brenda Bufalino's
Song of the Split Elm
is now available on audible.com
Narration, music and concertina
Brenda Bufalino
Vocal
Alice Baum
Sound Recording and Editing
Michael Starobin
Executive Producer
Donna Starobin
Who was she? My lost ancestor ... that artist, breaking the code of silence by singing, by dancing, by telling what she saw and what she felt. Nothing could have been more dangerous for my great grandmother, the daughter of a Calvinist preacher in 1853. Did she pay the price for me to be free, to live the life of a female artist and not be in constant danger?
“Penobscot reservation on Indian Island...1853. Madeline was born singing. She sang melodies like chants, like forecasts, like conversations with flowers and birds. While her mother, a Penobscot Indian, was comforted by Madeline’s sonorous melodies, her father Jeremiah, a Calvinist Preacher, lived in fear of his daughter’s unique voice and joyous spirit. But as hard as he tried, he could not contain her.”
REVIEW EXCERPT: “The characters are fully alive, their stories engaging and the writing at times intensely lyrical.” Mikhail Horowitz, Performance Poet
The book has 5 Stars and many reviews on amazon.com. Now, just released on audible.com, it’s your chance to write a review.
Other books by Brenda Bufalino
Tapping the Source...tap dance stories, theory and practice
Circular Migrations... a book of poems and monologs for performance.
Available at brendabufalino.com & Amazon.com
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(ECS#8) presented in partnership with LaGuardia Performing Arts Center-CUNY in Long Island City.
ECS is a comprehensive program providing up-and-coming dance makers with tools, means and support to create, develop and premiere a new finished work. This is a ten-week crash course in self producing a 10-minute max choreographic work ready for future festival & venue showings.
ECS encompasses a space grant, career development consultations, professional mentorship and numerous connections within the dance community, culminating in a two-evening fully produced performance at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City.
* Due to COVID-19 this year’s performance may be virtual. Exact details TBD.
The program is free of charge--no application fees, no production fees, and no rental costs will be charged to the applicant/choreographer. The total value of the program is estimated to $7,000/choreographer. The ECS also provides a modest budget to remunerate choreographers, dancers and cover production expenses such as costumes, props and travel reimbursements.
Dance makers of all dance styles and fusions, including but not limited to Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Jazz, Hip Hop, tap, flamenco, percussive, ethnic, commercial and dance theater are encouraged to apply.
ECS 2021 Important Dates:
Dec. 22: Application process open
Jan. 9 & Jan 12: Mini Workshop/Info Sessions (optional)
Jan. 15: Application deadline
March 15: Rehearsal begin
May 17-22: tentative performance dates
For more info, application process, program timeline and register visit: mnelements.org
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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, Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Tsunami Foundation - Anson and Debra Beard, Jr. and Family, and numerous individuals, friends and families.
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