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American Tap Dance Center plans its September Open Houses

Lynn Schwab, Chikako Iwahori and Max Pollak of Rumba Tap
at American Tap Dance Foundations' 2012 Tap It Out
(c)2012, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

American Tap Dance Center

welcomes you to its

September 2013 

Open Houses

Need a place to make noise? Put your feet to the beat! Come check out our studios, meet the faculty and take a sample class!

Saturday, September 7, Noon to 1pm

Wednesday, September 11, 4pm to 5pm

Sunday, September 15, Noon to 1pm

American Tap Dance Center
154 Christopher Street, #2B (near Washington Street), Manhattan
(map/directions)

RSVP: shebach@atdf.org or 646-230-9564

And learn more about what the American Tap Dance Foundation has to offer, such as Tap Addicts Anonymous, a brand new tap dance ensemble for adult fast beginner and advanced beginner students, and Tap Talks/Tap Films, monthly presentations, panel discussions and special events engaging the tap community of dancers, historians, teachers, writers and choreographers. Click here.

Dance for free in NYC!

In celebration of the annual NYC Dance Week (June 21-30), take your choice of free or discounted dance, fitness and wellness classes offered in numerous venues around Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. You'll find something for all ages, levels of experience and tastes--including ballet, aerial acrobatics, Pan-American indigenous dance, belly dance, Capoeira, African dance and more.

Get a schedule and details here.

And learn more about NYC10, the monthly showcase for emerging dance troupes, by clicking here.

Gibney Dance Center celebrates community in dance

Gibney Dance Center Launch Party tonight
by Maura Nguyen Donohue, Culturebot, September 21, 2011

Making space work for New York's dancers

Gibney Dance Center Pioneers a New Financial Model While Providing Much Needed Dance-Work Space
by Jennifer Edwards, The Huffington Post

Cunningham Trust replies to petition

Response to the petition to preserve Cunningham training at Westbeth

posted on Students for Cunningham, October 21, 2010

Save the Merce Cunningham Studio Petition

Read the proposal and sign the petition to support this effort!

Gibney Dance Center to open September 1

Choreographer Gina Gibney, artistic director of Gina Gibney Dance, today announced plans to greatly expand both her studio space and the range of programs designed to serve the rapidly growing needs of New York's dance and performance community. Her Gibney Dance Center will open on September 1.

Gina Gibney (c)2010, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

For two decades, Gibney has maintained Studio 5-2 at 890 Broadway for company rehearsals and a full roster of professional and specialty classes. Now, with the support of Eliot Feld's Ballet Tech Foundation, Gibney has acquired two more spaces in the building, also known as The Lawrence A. Wien Center for Dance and Theater.

In addition to Studio 5-2 (renamed Studio 3), Gibney Dance Center will be home to two new studios:

Studio 1--a 36' x 36' rehearsal studio and production office designed and equipped for rehearsals and residencies for dance and theater groups

Studio 2--20' x 36' workspace for small group rehearsals, exploratory work and special creative programs; affordable for independent artists and small dance groups

Building on her long track record in community service and innovation, Gibney plans to launch two new programs:

boo-koo--a space grant program that will provide choreographers with rehearsal time and technical assistance in exchange for community give-backs, such as free workshops or performances for audience with limited exposure to the arts

One-Shot--a web-based, solo performance relay curated by Sarah Maxfield. Each participating artist receives six hours of rehearsal time at GDC, during which he or she will create a solo performance specifically for the Internet. Each web-based solo will be premiered online, and remain available in a web-based catalogue for performance viewing at any time.

For Gibney Dance Center rental inquiries, contact Michele Wilson at 212-677-1818 or michele@ginagibneydance.org.

Benefit for Valerie Green's burglarized studio

Legendary jazz club the Zinc Bar and Dance Entropy/Green Space invite you to a burglary benefit. The evening will offer drinks, light food, live music, DJ, raffle and dancing. Green Space Studio was severely burglarized on August 26th. Proceeds will go to helping the studio recover from their losses.

Wednesday November 11, 6pm to 9pm

Admission: $20 pre-sale online or $25 at the door

Zinc Bar
82 West 3rd Street, Manhattan
between Thompson & Sullivan Streets

Directions: By Subway: A, B, C, D, E, F, V to West 4th Street stop, Manhattan

Green’s ambitious and open – hearted dream of creating a working dance/music enclave in Queens is off the ground. – Attitude Magazine

Waag taps out a space for tap

Tony Waag, director of the American Tap Dance Foundation (ATDF), has signed a 10-year lease for a studio/rehearsal space exclusively for tap--the new American Tap Dance Center. The 3000 square foot space, located on Christopher and Washington Streets, will house three studios for tap classes and rehearsals, as well as the foundation's administrative offices.

"The reality is that for more than a century, tap has fought for its place on the legitimate stage," Waag notes. "Appropriate venues where dancers, both aspiring and professional, can perfect their craft are limited. Even necessities, such as the special floor and the shoes, add to the complexity of trying to legitimize the art form. There is also the deep-seated notion that tap lacks composition and, in turn, training and artistry, because improvisation is so much a part of the art form."

ATDF is one of only a handful of dance organizations committed to ensuring that tap's great performers receive recognition, alongside the masters of ballet and modern and jazz dance.

News of the lease-signing comes as ATDF swings into its wildly-popular New York City summer festival--Tap City. For further information on Tap City events and resources, click here.

Valerie Green: Body and Soul podcast

Valerie Green joins me to talk about Green Space--her dance studio and performance space in Long Island City--and its many services to the artists, audiences and families of Queens, New York's most ethnically-diverse borough.

See Green perform her solo Underground at 92nd Street Y's free Fridays @ Noon program on January 23. Information here or at 212-415-5500.

Valerie Green bio and company information

Green Space Studio

(c)2009, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

MP3 File

Paul Taylor Company to lose SoHo space

Paul Taylor Dance Troupe, Tripped Up by Rent, Seeks a New Home
by Daniel J. Wakin, The New York Times, October 6, 2008