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

"...year, one more irreplaceable part of that art form's history slipped away. We may never see his like again,..."

May 26, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Five Arty Things To Do In Austin This Weekend

Arty, yeah. You know: Creativity actually happening in our city.

"...one night, OK? And then you can get back to it instanter, we swear, then you can re-enter the..."

June 16, 2017 Arts Post by Wayne Alan Brenner

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 the daunting challenge of..."

March 7, 2008 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Your Field Guide to 80 Essential Acts at SXSW Music

Highlighting the best and buzziest at this year's Festival

"...All roads lead to Austin come March 13-18. South by Southwest Music 2023..."

March 10, 2023 Music Feature by The Music Staff

Spirit of Orgain Music Festival Blames Cancellation on “Their Financier”

After an earlier City of Hutto statement cited a “headliner issue”

"...Update, Dec. 5, 7pm: Despite the City of Hutto’s press release citing a “headliner issue” earlier this morning,..."

Dec. 5, 2023 Music Post by Carys Anderson

Playback: Spring Festival Season Evolves

Storms can halt an already truncated spring festival season

"...Guns n' Roses jam with AC/DC's Angus Young prior to the announcement that the former's frontman would lead the..."

April 22, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Roxane Gay, Tim O’Brien Join Texas Book Festival Lineup

Full author roster revealed for November fest

"...The Texas State Capitol is currently playing host to an impeachment trial that..."

Sept. 13, 2023 Arts Post by Kimberley Jones

The Off Beat: Resound’s Winter Formal Levels Up to a Holiday Hootenanny

Expanded winter mini-fest touches down at Radio / East

"...or something,” Roger Sellers said Saturday, performing as Bayonne toward the end of the first day of Resound’s Holiday..."

Dec. 20, 2024 Column by Carys Anderson

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...CD, Full Western Dress, finds the band venturing further into Beatles-esque Sixties pop influences along with their familiar hats-off..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

SXSW Music Festival

Picks & Sleepers

"...TIM EASTON: Easton may be known to some as the frontman..."

March 17, 2000 Music Feature

Austin Aqua Festival '97

"...Bug the Clown loves me. I have the sticker to prove it. I stood in line just like the..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Music Feature

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.

"...this community for so long, it might not occur to most people that there's something radical about her. But..."

May 18, 2001 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Minister of Grace

At the age of 88, legendary dancer Fayard Nicholas continues to spread the good word of tap, and this week he does it in Austin as the Festival Legend at the third Soul to Sole Tap Festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company.

"...in a split, followed by a miraculous spring back to a standing position, their legs like rubber bands snapping..."

June 6, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...discussion is dance, it's the nature of the artists to be on the move. And in Austin, they certainly..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

More Happy Feet

Dance legend Fayard Nicholas returns to Austin for the fifth annual Soul to Sole Festival

"...The fleet feet that astonished audiences in vaudeville, at the Cotton Club, and on..."

June 3, 2005 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Distance Danced

Between its old and new versions of 'Swingin' Then & Now,' Tapestry Dance Company has swung a long way, baby

"...in her first season of flying solo as artistic director, her co-founder and partner Deirdre Strand having surrendered her..."

April 21, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

2005 Soul to Sole Festival Concert

The continuum of tap from 1930s elegance to today's stomping rhythm pulsed in the concert concluding Tapestry Dance Company's 2005 Soul to Sole Festival

"...2005 Soul to Sole Festival Concert..."

June 10, 2005 Arts Review by Ann Ciccolella

Austin Critics Table Nominations, 2003-2004

The full list of nominations for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...critics have put their heads – and pens – together to recognize the year's most exceptional work in theatre,..."

May 14, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Articulations

Owing to budget woes in the College of Fine Arts, the UT PAC Prop Shop is closed for business, and local choreographers and dance companies earn national awards and international gigs.

"...in the ongoing battle by Austin performing arts groups to create maximum theatre on minimum budgets: The Prop Shop..."

Aug. 8, 2003 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Friends in Time

This year's tap festival faculty concert proved tap's relevance and transcendance

"...lured an impressive faculty of world-renowned, charismatic tap artists to this year's Soul to Sole Festival. Nor was it..."

June 8, 2012 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Tapestry's 'JASS'

In remounting Tapestry Dance Company's 'JASS,' Artistic Director Acia Gray is seeing how dancers, like jazz musicians, take their time as they get older

"...This season, Tapestry Dance Company jumps forward into the past with new versions of a pair of..."

Jan. 20, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Culture Flash!

Grammy recognition for Conspirare, an encore and more NEA support for Tapestry's The Souls of Our Feet, and giant sunflowers for the Mueller redevelopment

"...• Congratulations to Conspirare on its first Grammy nomination. Requiem – We..."

Dec. 15, 2006 Arts Column by Robert Faires

Tap That Nut

In Tapestry's Of Mice & Magic, dance is more than the medium; it's the message

"...When Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky composed the score to The Nutcracker, he did more than musically evoke a..."

Dec. 11, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

In Memoriam

Legendary hoofer Fayard Nicholas of the Nicholas Brothers, recent visitor to Austin for the Soul to Sole Tap Festival and friend of Tapestry Dance Company, has died at age 91

"...Austin twice in the last three years for the Soul to Sole tap festival organized by Tapestry Dance Company..."

Feb. 3, 2006 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Arts: Summer Snapshot

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

"...Circus 1903: The Golden Age of Circus Cirque du Soleil-like salute to circuses past, featuring giant elephant puppets from..."

May 19, 2017 Arts Feature

Applause! Applause!

The full list of winners for the 2003-2004 Austin Critics Table Awards, recognizing outstanding achievements in local theatre, dance, classical music, and visual art

"...with the third induction of artists and arts patrons into the Austin Arts Hall of Fame. Eight individuals were..."

June 11, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Dance Card

"...Not registered for the conference? Prefer watching or doing to talking? Consider your card filled...."

June 10, 2016 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

On the Funding Front

Eleven area artists and cultural organizations earn support for 2011 projects

"...year from the Idea Fund, a program in which Houston arts organizations Aurora Picture Show, DiverseWorks ArtSpace, and Project..."

Jan. 14, 2011 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Acia Gray

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

"...Dance Foundation will honor the co-founder and longtime artistic director of Tapestry Dance Company with a Hoofer Award, presented..."

July 2, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Austin Arts Groups

A dozen culture providers have been very nice, according to the NEA

"...impersonation of St. Nick and dropped some federal funding into the stockings of a dozen local culture providers. It's..."

Dec. 25, 2009 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

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