Tap Dance

The many firsts of 4th Tap

"...before it's even close to saturation." His brewery, 4th Tap Brewing Co-op is the new kid on a grid..."

Jan. 8, 2016 Food Feature by Cheryl Couture

Tapestry Dance Company's In Your Shoes

The rhythm tap troupe explores homelessness with a common sense of the form's capacity for complexity, subtlety, and risk

"...When I mention that I'm going to see a tap dance show, people do one of three things: tell..."

Oct. 9, 2015 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Free Dance!

Complimentary classes at Ballet Austin and Tapestry, plus a free monthly tap show

"...• Ballet Austin holds its annual day of free dance classes this Sunday, Sept. 12, 2-6pm. "Come Dance!" lets..."

Sept. 10, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Tapestry Dance Company:Getting those tap shoes re-'Soul'ed

The troupe's thrilling Souls of Our Feet program is back, with more reconstructions of classic rhythm tap routines

"...In 2006, Tapestry Dance Company Artistic Director Acia Gray set her company..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dance Repertory Theatre's Momentum

This program of dances informed by African American experiences and culture was highly physical and emotionally urgent

"...urgency of everyday life. But other times, as with Dance Repertory Theatre's program of dance works informed by African-American..."

Feb. 24, 2017 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Tapestry Dance’s One Step at a Time

The rhythm tap company’s production offers not just wonderful dance but perhaps the most necessary commentary of this electoral season

"...Quite a lot, as it happens. Tapestry Dance Company's current – and most timely – production..."

Nov. 4, 2016 Arts Review by Robert Faires

Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Events That Made 2006 a Year to Remember

"...Using the Intel shell as the site for a dance could've been a one-note stunt, but Sally Jacques' choreographic..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Dance India Calls on Us All to Respect Mother Earth

Multimedia, multicultural production Sacred Earth Stories appeals to the heart

"...Stories is performed at the Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. Naimpally will be one of five dancers..."

June 28, 2019 Arts Feature by Sumaiya Malik

Top 10 Dance and Classical Music Wonders of 2007

Chronicle Arts Editor Robert Faires recaps 2007 in dance and classical music

"...Waiting for the Barbarians (Austin Lyric Opera) Mounting the American premiere of a new opera by Philip Glass in..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Not Just Dance

Moving Into New Forms at the Performing Arts Center

"...Sydney Dance Company Cross-disciplinary is the focus this fall in dance..."

Oct. 31, 1997 Arts Feature by Stephanie Beauchamp

Tap That

Music and Beer equal players at Untapped Festival in Dallas

"...This Saturday at Gilley’s Dallas, the Paste Untapped Festival will couple indie music with more than 200..."

Sept. 5, 2013 Food Post by Anna Toon

Jonelle Seitz's Top 10 Brave Dance Artists of 2016

The year revealed how much courage and inspiration can be found in Austin's masters of movement

"...1) ACIA GRAY Tap has been listening to us for almost two centuries...."

Dec. 30, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

What's Past Is Prologue

Recreating classic tap routines from the screen and stage opens an exciting new future for Tapestry Dance Company

"...into three dimensions, and they're in the flesh, being danced right now, right here, without benefit of retakes or..."

March 9, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

She Got Rhythm

In the world of rhythm tap, female dancers are a minority, and women who are masters of the form, as Acia Gray is, are merely a fraction of the whole. But with the debut of the Soul to Sole Festival, Gray hopes to give women who tap their due.

"...there is, and it's this: She's a woman who taps...."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...When the discipline under discussion is dance, it's the nature of the artists to be on..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Razzle-Dazzle 'Em

David Bologna on making it to Broadway with 'Billy Elliot'

"...Broadway cast of Billy Elliot the Musical, the Austin song-and-dance phenom had a lot to say – more than..."

Dec. 11, 2012 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Acia Gray

Local rhythm tap legend to be honored with a major national award

"...The great American art form of rhythm tap couldn't ask for a..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

A tour of China for Tapestry and another arts honor for Ada Anderson

"...• How's this for an American export to China? Rhythm tap. And Austin will be..."

July 1, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Howdy, Pardner!

In 2010, the watchword among Austin creatives was 'collaboration'

"...stewardship of the 200,000-plus Magnum Photos archive. Theatre and dance both saw the national spotlight turned their way, the..."

Jan. 7, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

How OPA Design Studio Makes Austin's Elite Brewery Taprooms

Stephen Oliver does his tap dance

"...couldn't sell its own beer to its own visiting taproom customers. There was a loophole breweries cartoonishly tiptoed through..."

July 24, 2020 Food Feature by Eric Puga

Soul to Sole Festival

Hoofers from around the country are tapping their way to Austin for the sixth annual Soul to Sole Festival, featuring tap master Arthur Duncan as one of the 2006 Festival Legends

"...When tap legend Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers passed away..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts: Summer Snapshot

Theatre, dance, comedy, and lit events on the horizon

"...Soul to Sole Tap Festival Tapestry Dance Company brings the country's rhythm tap..."

May 19, 2017 Arts Feature

B-Boy City Freestylin'

Roméo Navarro's freewheeling philosophy of dance has inspired a vibrant freestyle dance community in Austin for the past decade, and now his B-Boy City events, gathering 350-400 dancers from all over the South and Southwest and points beyond, are realizing a dream of freestylin' dancers on an even grander scale.

"...one guy can do the headspin, one guy can dance. Nah, you gotta be everything here. You see tap..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Arts Feature by Deborah Hay

The Body Is the Music

The Beginnings

"...Ballet has its origins in folk dance. American popular dance is a fusion of European dance..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Arts Feature by Barbejoy A. Ponzio

The Next Steps

Ballet Austin seeks out tomorrow's Balanchines with a new and unique choreographic showcase

"...the original steps that will change the form of dance in the coming generation, the Martha Grahams and George..."

Feb. 17, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Exhibitionism

Lord of the Dance: Flat Sans Flatley

"...get a few of them. Arguably the most popular dance ensemble touring at the moment, Michael Flatley's Lord of..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Arts Review

Critics Table Tops at 25

The nominees for the 2016-17 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Critics Table have settled on what was outstanding in dance, classical music, visual art, and theatre in that span..."

May 22, 2017 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Culture Flash

A dozen NEA grants, an Austinite for State Artist, and Austin High takes state

"...in partnership with the Austin Independent School District Ballet East Dance Company: $10,000 to support Hear Me/See Me, a multimedia..."

May 27, 2011 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Rodeo Austin: Your Guide to All the Bands, Barrel Racing, and Buckin' Broncs

Ludacris, Young the Giant, and mutton bustin’ top the bill

"...Tap into your true Texan for some traditional Western rodeo..."

March 10, 2018 Events Post by Savannah Opre

An Arc of Crystal Clarity

Rob chats with Gavin Russom and Viva Ruiz of the Crystal Ark

"...Gavin Russom has been part of New York's underground dance scene as a artist on DFA records for years...."

Jan. 10, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Rob Cohen

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