Unlimited Free Classes Jan 2-9th

OPEN HOUSE: Unlimited FREE Dance Classes

WHEN: Jan 2nd- Jan 9th
WHERE: 1018 Washington St., 2nd Fl., Hoboken

If your child isn't enrolled in a class you can try unlimited dance classes for free for 1 week!

Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Hip Hop, Irish Step, Bollywood, Acro, Mini Musicians, Contemporary, Song and Dance and More!

  and...Don't Miss New Year Eve Drop Off Event

HERE IS THE SCHEDULE INCLUDED IN UNLIMITED DANCE CLASSES. SIGN UP NOW BEFORE WE ARE SOLD OUT!

MONDAYS:

• Adult Ballet 10am-11:15am
• Ballet 3-5 yr olds 4:45pm-5:30pm
• Ballet 4-7 yr olds 5:30pm-6:15pm
• Intermediate Tap 10-Teen 7:15pm-8:15pm  
• Mini Musicians 3-5 yr olds 4:15pm-4:45pm
• Adult Tap 8:15pm-9:15pm

TUESDAYS:

• Ballerina Princess All Ages Mommy and Me 9:30am-10:15am
• Ballerina Princess 18 months-3 yrs old 10:30am-11:15am
• Beginner Tap 5-7yr olds | 3:30pm-4:15pm
• Beginner Irish Step 7-12yr olds 4:15pm-5:15pm 
• Contemporary Lyrical 1 Mixed Ages 3:45pm-4:45pm
• Contemporary Lyrical 2 Mixed Ages 5pm-6pm
• Irish Step for 3-6yr olds 5:15pm-6pm 
• Advanced Irish Step Mixed Ages 6pm-7pm
• Adult Ballet 7pm-8:15pm 

WEDNESDAYS

• Ballet 3-4 yr olds 3:30pm-4:15pm
• Hip Hop  3-4 yr olds 4:15pm-5pm
• Hip Hop 5-8 yr olds 5:15pm-6:15pm
• Hip Hop Crew 9-Teen 6:15pm-7:15pm

THURSDAYS

• Ready Step Rock All Ages Mommy and Me 9:30am-10:15am
• Broadway Babies All Ages Mommy and Me 10:30am-11:15am
• Song and Dance ages 5-7 3:30pm-4:15pm
• Tap 1 Mixed Ages 7+ 6:30pm-7:30pm
• Ballet Mixed Ages 10+ 6:30pm-7:30pm 

FRIDAYS

• Adult Tap Adult 2:30pm-3:30pm
• Ballet/Tap Combo 3-4 year olds 3:30pm-4:15pm
• Bollywood 3-5 year olds 4pm-4:45pm
• Acro Mixed Ages 4:15pm-5:15pm
• Jazz 1 Mixed Ages 8+ 5:15pm-6:15pm

SATURDAYS

• Song and Dance 3-6 year olds 9:30am-10:15am
• Ballet 3-4 year olds 10:15am-11am
• Ballet 3-4 year olds 11:05am-11:50am
• Ballet 3-5 year olds 11:15am-12pm
• Ballet 4-7 year olds 10:05am-11:05am
• Tap/Jazz Combo 3-6 year olds 12pm-1pm 

New Education Spring Session in Red Bank

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Hudson Theatre Works presents Fall classes in Tap Dancing, Playwrighting, Screenwriting and Acting for the Camera

Fall classes in Tap Dancing, Playwrighting, Screenwriting and Acting for the Camera

WHEN: BEGIN 0N MONDAY, 10/21 AND END ON 12/2
WHERE: 80 HAUXHURST AVENUE, WEEHAWKEN, NJ
TUITION: ALL CLASSES ARE $180.00 FOR 6 WEEKS AND ARE EITHER MONDAY OR TUESDAYS FROM 7PM TO 9PM.
CLASS INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND AT WWW.HUDSONTHEATREWORKS.ORG UNDER EDUCATION
PLEASE EMAIL HUDSONTHEATREWORKS@GMAIL.COM TO REGISTER AND MORE INFO.

TAP DANCING (TUESDAY) - Jeffry is an actor, singer and tap dancer, and has been performing for over 20 years. Jeffry has trained in the art of tap with Deborah Mitchell, Karen Calloway Williams, Omar Edwards, and many others. Some of his past credits include "Riffin & Tappin", "Dance Bojangles Dance", "42nd Street", "Shades Of Harlem", and recently New York City Center Encores “Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" directed and choreographed by Savion Glover. He also occasionally performs as Sammy Davis Jr in Tribute To The Rat Pack which performs all over the east coast. Jeffry also teaches tap in the tri-state area. Jeffry is also a member and a principle dancer of the New Jersey Tap Dance Ensemble under the direction of Deborah Mitchell.

PLAYWRIGHTING (MONDAY) - Joanne Hoersch is a recipient of a 2012 grant from the NJ State Council on the Arts for her first play, Jackson is Gone, which was also selected for a roundtable reading at the Lark Theatre. Prior to becoming a playwright, she was a fiction writer. She received a Woolrich fellowship for fiction from Columbia University, was a semi-finalist in the Heekin Foundation’s national short story contest, and was a 1998 grantee from the NJ State Council on the Arts for her short story, “Josie Going Places.” Her play "Bunnies" will be presented by Hudson Theatre Works May, 2020.

Each student will bring in a minimum of five pages, and a maximum of fifteen pages, every week, to be read out loud by the class. The teacher will open a discussion of the submitted work, bringing together questions about character, plot, and milieu. Students will learn how to advance a plot using character, conflict and resolution, how to develop dialogue, setting and story, how to link scenes and build tension, and how to bring the play to its conclusion. i.e. what needs to happen in order for the play to end? The class will also focus on the broader questions of playwriting. What does it mean to you, as a playwright, to have your voice heard? What subjects draw you in the most? What do you want to accomplish in your plays? What is the effect on the audience of attending a play, as opposed to listening to music or watching a movie?

ACTING FOR THE CAMERA (TUESDAY) - Adrian Wattenmaker has over 20 years of experience working with actors. Currently, Adrian is Associate Artistic Director of Hudson Theatre Works. From 2009 to 2013, he was director of the School of Creative and Performing Arts (SOCAPA), Los Angeles campus. Prior to that he was director of the acting program at the New York Film Academy. He has worked at Atlantic Theater Company, Second Stage, LAByrinth Theater Company, The Amoralists Theatre Company, HB Playwrights Foundation, Hudson Theatre Works, Theatre Row, Baltimore Theatre Project, CenterStage - Baltimore, Studio USA/Universal, NBC, Greg Stump Productions/Delamo Films, Setton Sun Productions, Four Act Films, and SRTV. Adrian served on the Drama Desk Nominating Committee (2012/2013) and is a member of The Actors Studio Playwright / Directors Unit. He has taught at Brooklyn College, University of Nevada-Reno, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts, School of Creative and Performing Arts (SOCAPA), NYFA, and Life Academy High School for Film and Music. Adrian attended William Esper Studio, Actors Movement Studio, HB Studio, received a BA in Theatre Arts from Towson University, and holds a MFA in Directing from Brooklyn College. He assisted Austin Pendleton with the premiere of Stephen Adly Guirgis' Between Riverside and Crazy (2015 Pulitzer Prize for Drama / Critic's Pick: The New York Times, Time Out New York, NY Daily News). 

This class will allow students to become comfortable working in front of the camera. Actors will be introduced to the world of filmmaking so that they have an understanding of what is happening around them on set. Students will lean about blocking and how to gear their performance for specific size of shot.

SCREENPLAY WRITING (MONDAY) - Matthew Dixon's one-hour television pilot, The Glass Hotel, was optioned by HBO and in development with Mike Meyers and Jay Roach; he was also a co-producer on the project. His screenplay, Perfect Memory, is being co-produced by Darren Aronofsky’s Chromista Films and the French company, SeBe Films. He was selected for the Sundance Institute’s Writers Lab and Filmmakers Lab with his first screenplay, Starry Night. It was one of six scripts selected that year from over 3500 submissions. With Adrien Brody, Billy Crudup, Gena Rowlands, Mia Farrow, Brian Cox and Alan Rickman attached, it was one of only two sponsored by Sundance that year for the Independent Film Project’s “No Borders” conference. Hired assignment work includes the screenplay adaptation of John Yount’s novel, Toots in Solitude. He wrote and directed the short film, Modern Houses, starring Lili Taylor, which has played at over 30 festivals around the world, and for which he has just finished writing the feature script. He directed the documentary One Man Under God, about Michael Newdow, who represented himself before the Supreme Court to have the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance. Dixon is represented by Lighthouse Management and Media in Los Angeles, one of the top firms in the country. A lifetime member of the Actors Studio, he has acted extensively in theater, film and television.

This six-week class is open to anyone interested in learning how to write for film and television or take their craft to the next level. Students will learn how to create compelling characters and dialogue, plots and actions, and how to build the dramatic conflict that makes readers want to turn the pages and keep audiences in their seats. Students should come to the first class with three to five story ideas, whether original or from a script in progress. The ideas don’t need to be fully developed, a couple sentences will do for now. We will discuss why one may have more potential than another to make the audience want to know the all-important question: What happens next?  All levels of experience are welcome. The work and goals can be tailored to the individual, whether finishing and fixing the problems of an existing script, starting a full-length or leaving class with a shoot-ready short.  Towards that, students will be expected to write between classes. 

OPEN HOUSE FEATURES FREE Unlimited Dance Classes ages 1-18 in Hoboken

Open House

FREE Unlimited Dance Classes

WHEN: Sept 9th-14th
WHERE: Garden Street School of the Performing Arts, 1018 Washington Street, Hoboken

Any child from toddlers to 18 who is not currently enrolled in a class for Sept, can try a week of unlimited classes during our Open House Week. Sept 9th -14th. Space is limited. You must have a reservation. No payments, no strings, or commitments attached.

Most affordable + Flexible Dance, Theatre, and Art Classes in Hoboken, Jersey City, Weehawken and Union City - with the highest quality classes, and most professional staff!

Some of our classes for Sept are almost sold out and have fewer than 3 spots available. Some classes may be full for the year before the Open House begins. If there is a class you know you'd love to enroll in, please do so as soon as possible so you do not lose the spot.

Here is the Open House Schedule for Free Unlimited Classes. Some of these classes are almost full or full for the school year.

Monday, Sept 9th 

Musical Monets Mommy & Me ages 18months - 3 years old 10am-10:45am

Ballet 3-4 yr olds 3:30pm-4:15pm

Intermediate Tap 10-Teen 7:15pm-8:15pm 

Mini Musicians 3-5 yr olds 4pm-4:30pm

Mighty Musicians 6-8 yr olds 4:45pm-5:30pm

Tuesday, Sept 10th

Ballerina Princess 12 months-18 months 9:30am-10:15am

Ballerina Princess 18 months-3 yrs old 10:30am-11:15am

Beginner Tap 5-7yr olds  
3:30pm-4:15pm

Wednesday, Sept 11th

Beginner Irish Step 7-12yr olds
4:15pm-5:15pm 

Contemporary 1 Mixed Ages 3:45pm-4:45pm

Contemporary 2 Mixed Ages 5pm-6pm

Irish Step for 3-6yr olds 5:15pm-6pm 

Advanced Irish Step Mixed Ages 6pm-7pm 

Thursday, Sept 12th

Ready Step Rock 12 months- 3 years 9:30am-10:15am

Broadway Babies 12 months - 3 years 10:30am-11:15am

Ballet 4-6 yr olds 3:30pm-4:15pm 

Song and Dance  4-7 yr olds 3:30pm-4:15pm  

Tap 1 Mixed Ages 6:30pm-7:30pm

Ballet Mixed Ages 6:30pm-7:30pm 

Friday, Sept 13th

Mommy and Me Bollywood 10:30am-11:05am

Adult Tap Adult 2:30pm-3:30pm

Ballet/Tap Combo 3-4 year olds 3:30pm-4:15pm

Bollywood 3-4 year olds 4pm-4:45pm

Acro Mixed Ages 4:15pm-5:15pm

Bollywood 5-6 year olds 5pm-5:45pm

Jazz 1 Mixed Ages 5:15pm-6:15pm

Jazz 2 Mixed Ages 6:15pm-7:15pm

Bollywood ages 7-14 6pm-7pm

Saturday, Sept 14th

Song and Dance 3-6 year olds 9:30am-10:15am

Mommy and Me Ballet 2-3 yr olds 9:30am-10:05am

Ballet 5-6 year olds 10:05am-11:05am

Ballet 3-4 year olds 10:15am-11am

Ballet 3-4 year olds  11:05am-11:50am

Ballet 3-5 year olds 11:15am-12pm

Tap/Jazz Combo 3-6 year olds 12pm-1pm

Mommy and Me Hip Hop 18 mos - 3 yrs 12pm-12:45pm

COMING TO NJPAC THIS FALL

Gladys Knight with special guest Will Downing

WHEN: Thu, Aug 29 @ 8PM
WHERE: NJPAC, 1 Center St., Newark
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An evening of timeless soul, R&B and more with 7-time GRAMMY® winner Gladys Knight and special guest Will Downing.

Learn more about the Will Downing meet-and-greet VIP package here.

Savion Glover directs The Tap Dance Kid

WHEN: Fri, Sep 13 @ 7PM, Sat, Sep 14 @ 7PM, Sun, Sep 15 @ 2PM

Tony Award® winning tap master Savion Glover directs a talented young cast in the hit B’way musical that launched his career!

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The Gipsy Kings WHEN: Sun, Sep 15 @ 7PM This GRAMMY-winning band celebrates 25+ years of flamenco, salsa and pop fusion perfection with party-starting spirit. Produced in association with John Scher/Metropolitan Entertainment buy tickets Celebrating the Music of Ray Charles WHEN: Sat, Sep 28 @ 8:30PM Featuring Yolanda Adams, Davell Crawford, Dianne Reeves and Jarrod Spector; hosted by Music Director Ray Chew. buy tickets Concert-only tickets as part of a benefit event produced by the Women's Association of NJPAC Arlo Guthrie Alice’s Restaurant Back By Popular Demand Tour WHEN: Sun, Sep 29 @ 3PM Folk music icon Arlo Guthrie brings a 50th anniversary celebration of the big-screen Alice’s Restaurant. Daughter Sarah Lee Guthrie opens the evening. buy tickets The Temptations & The Four Tops WHEN: Sat, Oct 12 @ 8PM Celebrate Motown, timeless soul and R&B with two of the most enduring super-groups: The Temptations and The Four Tops. buy tickets Michael Ian Black WHEN: Fri, Oct 18 @ 8PM An evening of stand-up comedy with busy actor and best-selling author Michael Ian Black (Wet Hot American Summer). buy tickets Sponsored by Bank of America Sponsored by GOYA Part of the Horizon Foundation Music & Comedy Series Part of the M&T Bank Dance Series UPCOMING PERFORMANCES 8/22 The Davell Crawford Movement 8/29 Lords of the Underground 10/4 Nemr – The Future is Now! 10/4 - 10/6 Sesame Street Live! Make Your Magic 10/12 Mike Marino with special guest Jon Bramnick 10/15 Rickie Lee Jones 10/19 Disney and the Boys: Will and Anthony Nunziata sing the Sherman Brothers 10/19 - 10/20 Jo Koy - Just Kidding World Tour 10/19 Soulshine: An Allman Brothers Experience 10/26 Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince™ in Concert 10/26 Tusk: The Ultimate Fleetwood Mac Tribute 10/27 Munich Philharmonic with Valery Gergiev 11/2 Franco Escamilla - Payaso

Summer Dance and Music Classes + Summer Dance, Music, and Arts Camp! at Garden Street

Summer Dance and Music Classes + Summer Dance, Music, and Arts Camp!

WHEN: July 9th - Aug 27th
WHERE: Garden Street Music, 1018 WASHINGTON ST, HOBOKEN
TUITION: $200 for the session (8 weeks) | $29 for drop ins.
SIGN UP TODAY! email dance@gardenstreetmusic.com

Ballet-Tap-Jazz Combo

Ballet portion focus on musicality, core stability, beautiful lines, preparation for turns, adagio elements, ballet positions, barre exercises, across the floor and center work, jumps, and turns. During the Tap segment we focus on rhythm, balance, steps, footwork, and musicality. The Jazz portion focuses on classic Broadway Theatre Jazz from hit Broadway Shows. Each week incorporates all three styles of dance in every class. These classes are taught by Miss Joanna Barry.

Summer Class Times

• Ages 3-4      Tuesdays      3:30pm-4:15pm
• Ages 5-7      Tuesdays     4:15pm-5:15pm
• Mixed Ages Tuesdays    5:15pm-6:15pm

Bollywood

4 different styles of Bollywood will be incorporated in this class for all ages and levels. A selection of styles such as Traditional, Folk, Contemporary, Western, Soft, Techno, and International will be taught by Hoboken Bollywood's Pooja Uberoi! This is a high energy, high quality class that should not be missed! Everyone is welcome.

Mixed Ages    Thursdays  4pm-4:45pm

Hip Hop

This high energy class will set movement, and routines to age appropriate chart topping favorites! Pop and Lock, and Commercial Hip Hop will be included as well as various styles throughout the genre. This is a great class for all ages and levels taught by Pooja Uberoi!

Mixed Ages   Thursdays    5pm-5:45pm

Irish Step

Straight from Dublin, our Irish Step master instructor is the leading Irish Step instructor in the area! Don't miss the opportunity to dance with Miss Joanna Barry! From the very first class, you will learn basic traditional Irish dance steps with a fusion of more modern elements. As you progress to Intermediate and Advanced, the coordination and skill level increases and there is an option of learning both the hard and soft shoe styles. This is a non-competitive class. It is a celebration of deep-rooted tradition that has survived the test of time, reinvented itself and its appeal has reached people and cultures all across the globe.

All Ages/Levels      Tuesdays 6:15pm-7:15pm

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Summer Dance, Theatre, Arts Camp

All ages and levels welcome.

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Summer Music Lessons and Cabaret

We offer Piano, Voice, and Guitar lessons throughout the Summer. Set up weekly private lesson and participate in our Summer Cabaret the evening on August 22nd.

NJ Tap Dance Ensemble Celebrating HOMECOMING 25 @ Kean University

Homecoming 25
a concert performance recognizing the organization’s 25th Anniversary

WHEN: Sunday, January 13, 2019, 2pm
WHERE: Wilkins Theater on the campus of Kean University, 1000 Morris Avenue, Union
TICKETS: $75 Preferred Seating/ $35 Standard Seating/$25 Students and Seniors and Group Rates for 10 or more are available.
Tickets can be purchased at the Kean University Box Office 908-737-7469 or online http://www.keanstage.com/njtap

Under the Artistic Direction of its founder, Deborah Mitchell, the company has become New Jersey’s most prominent tap dance company promoting and preserving the art form of rhythm tap dancing.

HOMECOMING 25 is a powerful celebration of the extraordinary contributions of the company’s artists to the American art form of tap dance. Both current and alumni artists who honed their skills in the company and have become prominent in the field of tap dance today will take the stage. The audience will be delighted to see fan-favorites and show stopping artists performing in Homecoming 25 including Maurice Chestnut, Karen Callaway Williams, Jeff Foote, Evan Ruggiero, Kyle Wilder, Nicholas DiNicolangelo, DeWitt Fleming, Jr., Parris Mann, and Hillary Marie-Michael and Katrina Richter just to name a few. The company will also pay tribute to their music director of 22 years, Broadway Conductor the late J. Leonard Oxley. A live band under the direction of Nicki Denner, the rich voice of jazz vocalist Carrie Jackson, special guests from the Broadway stage and remembrance of NJTAP artist Jennifer Lynn (Intravartolo) Asprocolas will complete this delightful, high energy performance for audiences of all ages. It’s a celebration 25 years in the making and one you don’t want to miss!

New Jersey Tap Dance Ensemble is the 2018 New Jersey Arts People’s Choice Award Winner in the category of Favorite Modern/Cultural Dance Company. www.njtap.org

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MAIN STAGE TAP DANCE EVENT TAP ‘N TIME SHUFFLES INTO MORRISTOWN

TAP ‘N TIME SHOWCASE

WHEN: Saturday, August 11, 2018 at 7:30 p.m
WHERE: Morris Museum, located at 6 Normandy Heights Rd, Morristown
TICKETS: $20 for students and seniors to $25 for the general public.

Jersey Tap Fest, NJ's sole dance festival featuring world-class tap faculty and extravaganza, celebrates its ninth year, August 9-12, in East Hanover and Morristown, NJ. (Top: Hillary-Marie Atkinson, center, the founder of Jersey Tap Fest, with, from left, Samara Seligsohn, Corey Hutchins, Leonardo Sandoval and Gabe Winns performing in “Soul Walk.” Credit Robert Nauta)

The expanding 4-day festival offers a full menu of over 50 beginner, intermediate and advanced classes in tap, improvisation, body percussion, hip-hop, music theory and more. In offering optimal opportunities for students to interact with the faculty and their peers, registrants also participate in jam sessions with live accompaniment, share their own works in a student showcase, and engage in tap talks with the festival’s esteemed faculty.

In tradition, the festival will conclude with TAP ‘N TIME, the main stage event featuring internationally acclaimed tap dance artists, regional tap companies, and other special performers.

Bridging together students and faculty, the yearly TAP ‘N TIME showcase will be held Saturday, August 11, 7:30 p.m. Attracting tap enthusiasts throughout the northeast, the evening will feature live music, rhythmic dance and tap performances by Anthony Morigerato (SYTYCD), Jason Samuels Smith (Emmy Award, Bring in ‘Da Noise Bring in ‘Da Funk), Bril Barrett (Riverdance), Karen Callaway Williams (Riverdance), Jeff Foote (NJTAP), Hillary-Marie’s Sole Music Collective, FutureSTEP Tap Company, the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble, Metro Youth Tap Ensemble and more inspirational artists to be announced.

Speaking of inspiration, “TAP ‘N TIME” will also feature Evan Ruggiero (Left), the dancer, actor, musician and recent Drama Desk and Chita Rivera award nominee who rebounded courageously when bone cancer claimed his right leg at the age of nineteen. “Evan is the type of person who makes you see the beauty in life and the reason for art,” says Hillary-Marie. “We grew up dancing together as kids and it’s amazing to see him years later chasing his dreams and inspiring people around the world. To have him back at Jersey Tap Fest is like a tap family reunion.”

“Tap ‘n Time is guaranteed to be the best tap dance show that New Jersey will see this summer,” says founder and director, Hillary-Marie Atkinson. “Jersey Tap Fest is the family dance festival. We celebrate local master tap dance artists and offer an unprecedented opportunity for tap enthusiasts to come and learn - not only technique but also history. We offer an opportunity to find a home for exploration and to leave with a renewed relationship to the tap community.”

More information on the festival can be found athttp://www.jerseytapfest.com. Audiences can interact with the festival on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube @jerseytapfest, and with hashtags #jerseytapfest and #JTF2018.

TAP MEETS POETRY @ THE DODGE THIS FRIDAY @ NJPAC

Join us this Friday at NJPAC!

Shuffle, Cramproll, Paradiddle and Stomp: The Rhythm of Tap Meets the Rhythm of Poetry

featuring poet Kurtis Lamkin, tap dancer Maurice Chestnut, and regional poets Marjorie Barnes, Michael Cirelli, Saeed Jones and Patrick Rosal.

WHEN: Friday, March 6, at 8:00 PM
WHERE: NJPAC, One Center St., Newark
TICKETS: Get Tickets

Shuffle, Cramproll, Paradiddle and Stomp are only a few of the names of dance steps in rhythmic tap, which treats the dancer’s feet as a percussion instrument. Newark resident and world-class tap dancer Maurice Chestnut accompanies poet and griot Kurtis Lamkin and other poets in dynamic duets of poetic and tap-dance rhythms.

Purchase Tickets, or get all 3 Dodge Poetry at NJPAC events for $30! 

For more information visit dodgepoetry.org

“SOUL WALK” TAP DANCES INTO RIDGE HIGH SCHOOL PEFORMING ARTS CENTER ON JANUARY 18

www.ridgepac.com for more information
973.932.0561

HOLIDAY TAP DANCE JAMFEST IN DOVER!

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NEW JERSEY TAP ENSEMBLE CELEBRATES 20 YEARS WITH ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

XX: A CELEBRATION OF 20 YEARS

WHEN: Sunday, September 21, at 2:00 PM
WHERE: Mayo Performing Arts Center, 100 South Street, Morristown, NJ
TICKETS: $75 (VIP with post-show reception) and $40 (Regular)
Tickets can be purchased online at http://www.mayoarts.org/event/nj-tap-ensemble2.
Tickets can also be purchased by phone, 973.539.8008, or in person at the Mayo Performing Arts Center, 100 South Street, Morristown, NJ 07960.

The New Jersey Tap Ensemble (NJTAP), Jersey's premiere tap dance company known for their traditional approach and precise rhythmic expression, to perform six new works, 12 repertory favorites and two guest pieces.

All-star dancers will share the dynamic and delightful journey of the company from infancy to today, showcasing the outstanding tap dance artistry for which the company is widely known. Told through storytelling by host, Founder and Artistic Director, Deborah Mitchell, the audience will experience archival tap works, as well as the tap voices of a new generation.

“The talent of these artists is truly extraordinary,” says Founder and Artistic Director Deborah Mitchell. “The audience will enjoy all of the charm, class, style and elegance of a bygone era, as well as, the next generation’s new gifts, visions and directions.”

The afternoon will feature impeccable classical tap dance technique with twenty pieces from over twenty years. Jersey Bounce, That Rhythm Man, The New Low Down, and Savoy, all choreographed and costumed by Deborah Mitchell, will include traditional tap styles reminiscent of 1930’s. Caravan, performed by Evan Ruggiero as a tribute to the Peg Leg Bates, celebrates the power of the human spirit in the face of all odds—both artists having tragically lost a leg, but never the love and spirit of dance. In keeping with the classics, Opus One, choreographed by the late and great Dr. Harold Cromer, will be performed by Hillary-Marie Michael and Kyle Wilder.

Inspiring its young artists to honor the past and celebrate the present, NJTap welcomes special guests for the afternoon, NJTAP2 (ages 12-17). The second company will perform works including Crazy, choreographed by Maurice Chestnut, and Rhythms by Deborah Mitchell.

The audience will also be treated to two pieces accompanied by live music. J. Leonard Oxley, Musical Director of NJTAP, and Nicki Denner will each perform a live piece with the company. Oxley’s credits include work with Carol Channing, Robert Preston, and Sophisticated Ladies, as well as Black and Blue, and Hello Dolly. Denner, of the renowned Nicki Denner Trio and Cocomama, has been involved in the New York Latin jazz music scene since 1999 and credits include The Apollo Theater, The Kennedy Center and Lincoln Center’s Meet the Artist program.

The Mayo Performing Arts Center, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit performing arts organization, presents a wide range of programs that entertain, enrich and educate the diverse population of the region and enhance the economic vitality of Northern New Jersey.

It is an ADA compliant venue for all patrons and accessible by car or mass transit at the New Jersey Transit Morristown station approximately two blocks away. Street parking is available.

About New Jersey Tap Ensemble

New Jersey Tap Ensemble, founded by tap legend, Deborah Mitchell in 1994, is a professional touring company starring some of the best rhythm tappers in the world. For two decades the company has celebrated and honored the great Hoofers of tap. In addition to touring, the company also performs in collaboration with other major performing arts organizations and at tap dance festivals such as the New York City Tap Festival, Tap Extravaganza, and Jersey Tap Fest. The resumes of first company members boast credits from: Black and Blue, Play On!, Riverdance, Tap Dogs, Steel City, Bring In 'Da Noise, Bring In 'Da Funk, tours with Savion Glover and ABC’s Dancing With The Stars.

FLAMENCO MEETS TAP @ CROSSROADS THEATRE THIS SATURDAY

WHERE: Crossroads Theatre, 7 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick

Crossroads Theatre Company thanks its major supporters:
Johnson & Johnson
The Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation

The Prudential Foundation
Middlesex County Cultural & Heritage Commission
New Brunswick Cultural Center
New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts