BODY AND SOUL: Lisa La Touche: Tap 4 The People

Lisa La Touche (photo: Jeremy Fokkens)

 

Tap dancer Lisa La Touche is wearing a red cropped T-shirt with a Canadian brand "roots" logo and light blue denim shorts cropped just above the knee.  Lisa is focused on a rhythm with one legs crossing in front of her reaching for a particular step.  The room is a warehouse with light beige brick and a wooden surface underneath her.  Her tap shoes are a mix of light and dark caramel colors.

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I'm delighted to feature the wonderful tap artist and filmmaker Lisa La Touche as my next guest. Born in Canada and, for a time, residing in New York's Harlem, Lisa has traveled the world with her tap shoes--drumming the earth, finding community, and realizing the power of artistic legacy.

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Eva Yaa Asantewaa

(photo: Joel Varjassy)

 Lisa is wearing a casual white denim dress with her arm crossed in front of her while looking at the horizon. She is outside in front of the Canadian Rocky Mountains with a train track behind her.  This is taken a moment before she begins to dance.

Lisa is wearing a black blouse and earth-green and greyish-brown leopard print leggings with dark and light caramel colored tap shoes. She is dancing on a wooden boardwalk with the city of Calgary's skyline behind her. She is in mid-action dancing with her hips twisted to one side, her arm reaching above her and her focus at her feet while reaching for a rhythm.

BIO: From both Alberta and New York, Lisa La Touche’s credits include: Broadway’s Shuffle Along, receiving the Fred Astaire Award and the Actor’s Equity Award for Outstanding Broadway Chorus, touring with the Savion Glover and the cast of STOMP. She is Founder of Tap Phonics, a tap dance based performance and production company. She is an educator/professor and co-curator of Dance Immersion’s Tap Dance Legacy Series with Travis Knights servicing black communities with free access to cultural history. She is also a filmmaker recently debuting TRAX encompassing her journey back to Alberta while discovering important local black history. http://www.lisalatouche.com