EXPLORES IDENTITY AND LEGACY IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PLAY. IT’S CALLED DIARY OF A TAP DANCER, AND IT’S PREMIERING ON STAGE THIS MONTH AT THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER IN CAMBRIDGE. JOINING US NOW IS ...

Ayodele Casel (creator, choreographer, performer) dances in A.R.T.’s world-premiere production of "Diary of a Tap Dancer." (Courtesy Nile Scott Studios and Maggie Hall) You could hear her before you ...

CAMBRIDGE - Writer, dancer, choreographer and actor Ayodele Casel is telling her own story in a world premiere piece at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Diary of a Tap Dancer ...

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According to Boulder dancer Ellie Sciarra, women tap dancers deserve an opportunity to strut their stuff under the bright lights of center stage. “The tap world is very male-dominated,” she says.

Juanita Pitts. Jeni Le Gon. Cora LaRedd. Louise Madison. Marion Coles. Nearly every time she’s handed a microphone, tap dancer Ayodele Casel finds a way to invoke these names: the names of the women ...

A woman is still teaching tap dancing at age 95, despite having a heart problem and two hip replacements. Joy Saunders has been doing tap since she was eight and is still teaching a class at Penzance ...

Michelle Dorrance is a MacArthur Genius Grant winning dancer hailing from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Born to a professional dancer and a professional soccer coach, Dorrance was formally trained as a ...

The Creative Alliance in Baltimore, Maryland, celebrated Black History Month with a new show honoring the life and legacy of ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A unique competition is taking place this Friday -- a tap dance off between a 13-year-old boy and a 97-year-old woman. The fall fundraiser for the Honeycomb Project, a Chicago ...

Trailblazing tap dancer and choreographer Ayodele Casel and longtime collaborator director Torya Beard (Chasing Magic, Funny Girl) return to A.R.T. this holiday season to share the joyful, resilient, ...

THINGS HE WANTED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND, THE GIFT AND THE VALUE OF BLACK BRILLIANCE. HEY. TELLING STORIES ABOUT BLACK HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC AND TAP DANCE. BREANA ALI HAS BEEN TAP DANCING SINCE SHE ...