Sessions
'Tap That Brass' - Tap With Live Music
11:00 AM - 12:15 PM Sat
Tap Concert
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Sun
We are five tap dancers and five brass players coming together to create collaborative works of music and dance.
Ordinarily, dance is performed to music, but tap dance creates music as it’s performed. Recognizing tap dance as a unique audiovisual performance art form, Tap That Brass was created to embrace and explore the tap-music dynamic. As part of the burgeoning movement to approach tap as music, TTB seeks to realize the full potential of tap dance by incorporating the musical role of percussionists into improvisation and composition while maintaining the use of sophisticated technique and visual choreography.
We have approached this endeavor by merging composition with choreography, learning from each other along the way. We’re excited to keep growing as we experiment and create, and we look forward to sharing our progress with the world