Episode 11, April 19, 2020
Hi everyone,

Welcome to Tony's Tap TV. Episode 11.

We start this episode out with a tap cartoon from the archives, followed by a link to our friend DeWitt Fleming Jr's new release Sax and Taps Intersplosion! Check it our everyone, it's fantastic!

Then we do an International Tap Dance Hall of Fame tribute to Lady Di Dianne Walker who we just inducted into the Hall at Tap City 2019.

Next we have a clip from my Tap Basics Instructional Video that focuses on ROUTINE THREE which contains a bunch of previously demonstrated steps.

And finally a link to a performance by yours truly at Tap City the night we forgot to invite Dianne Walker to the performance to accept the 2004 Hoofer Award.

It's pretty funny.... I think..... and it was totally improvised, of course. I call it the "nervous breakdown" performance. Everything that could go wrong that night, did!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Tony

PS: ARTISTS, check out the link below to the Howard Gilman Foundation. It's a list of places and organizations that you can apply to for Covid-19 related funding as an independent artist, dancer, singer, actor or musician. It's a great resource all in one place.


ALSO NOTE: Here's a link to all the previous archived Episodes.
Click here to visit the: TAP TV ARCHIVES

Erica von Kleist  & DeWitt Fleming Jr.
Bring you this explosive new album recorded live at  
Dizzy’s Club Jazz at Lincoln Center  

Erica von Kleist - Saxophone and piccolo 
DeWitt Fleming Jr - Tap and Percussion
Endea Owens-  Bass
Mark G. Meadows-  Piano
Carroll Dashiel III-  Drums

Today's International Tap Dance Hall of Fame is a tribute to Dianne Walker who we inducted into the Hall of Fame just last year!
Link to bio: Dianne Walker
Now check out this link to a Routine Three from my Tap Basics Video. Follow along students.
And here is some footage from Tap City 2004 where I introduce Dianne Walker to give her the Hoofer Award and she's nowhere to be found.
There are numerous instructional and performance products for purchase available now on-line through Vimeo. This is another way you can support the ATDF in this time of need.

Check them out HERE!


This project was created in a "pay what you can" format, and if you like what you see and if you send us some do re mi, we will consider it a donation. No strings attached. On the other hand, if there's no money, then no problem. Just know that the ATDF appreciates any donation you CAN make large or small, especially now in this crazy new world.

So my friends, keep safe, keep well & in the spirit of tap dance ... PLEASE keep time!

Tony Waag
Artistic/Founding Director
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