"One of our deep held beliefs is 'Respect the Dance!" And we embrace that in May with National Tap Dance Day as we join our friends at Chicago Tap Theatre to make sure this day is celebrated in the ...

Around the dawn of the new millennium, Chicago tap dancer Bril Barrett began to share his love of tap dance with his little brother and other local Black kids at the Sammy Dyer School of the Theatre ...

Chicago has long been a breeding ground for tap dance, and the city’s flagship summer festival, Rhythm World, is back. Now in his second year on the job, director Jumaane Taylor looks to put his ...

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...

M.A.D.D. Rhythms and Chicago Tap Theatre have come together as the Chicago Tap All-Stars, a production collaboration that seeks to connect the tap community, for various events May 21-25 in ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Chicago's premier tap collective, will continue its 20th ...

Ja'bowen Dixon offers instruction in one of the classes available at M.A.D.D. Rhythms Tap Summit 2019 Credit: Courtesy M.A.D.D. Rhythms As of this year, October 1 becomes M.A.D.D. Rhythms Day in the ...

“Just like Silicon Valley is a hotbed for technological innovation, there are certain pockets on the planet that are hotbeds — that are nurseries — for rhythm, for tap dance: New York, Tokyo, Chicago.

Performances in N.Y.C. The Uptown Rhythm Festival will mix styles, including tap, swing and flamenco, that are flourishing despite problems of rehearsal and performance space. Max Pollak rehearsing at ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- M.A.D.D. Rhythms is celebrating Black History Month by launching two new videos. M.A.D.D. Rhythms is a tap dance collective. The group hopes to start conversations through the videos, ...

MARYVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Every year on May 25 is when we recognize one of America’s oldest dance forms. National Tap Dance Day was first observed back in 1989. Tap dance incorporates the sound of the ...