February 2018  

 
   

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CARNIVAL &/OR CARNAVAL!

Ok everyone,

Time for some real monkey business!

Please note, we have TWO new (4) Week Workshops with Lisa La Touche and Jason Bernard this month. I strongly suggest enrollment.

Meanwhile, I hope you can participate in our first annual Winter Tap Carnival on February 16-19, 2018. This is going to be a hoot. Please register ASAP! We suspect it will sell out.

Finally, don't forget to visit our News & Events page for detailed information on this and any other upcoming activity. Things DO move around a bit.

Cheers!

Tony Waag
Artistic Director                          Photo by: Lois Greenfield
Fall Schedule for Adult Classes
September 11, 2017 - June 22, 2018

Fall Schedule for Youth Program
September 11, 2017 - June 17, 2018

 

Friday, January 26, 2018
TAP TALKS/TAP FILMS

 

American Tap Dance Orchestra (ATDO) Alumni gather to reflect, recall & re-examine 15 years of dynamic choreography created by Brenda Bufalino, local productions & touring international. Numerous performances from the ATDF Archives will be screened.
To register visit: TAP TALKS
Or call (646) 230-9564

Thursdays, February 1, 8, 15, & 22, 2018
(4) WEEK WORKSHOP WITH
LISA LA TOUCHE
(2:30 - 4pm)
Adults & Teens 13 +
  Intermediate/Advanced Level
Technique & Repertory
  
$9 - first class for new students
$18 - single class
$64 - 4 class card
 
or call 646-230-9564


Mondays, February 5, 12, 19, & 26, 2018
(4) WEEK WORKSHOP WITH
JASON BERNARD
(2:30 - 4pm)
Adults & Teens 13 +
  Advanced Beginner/Intermediate Level
Technique & Repertory
  
$9 - first class for new students
$18 - single class
$64 - 4 class card
   
or call 646-230-9564


Visit NEWS & EVENTS  for detailed info on these important dates:

February 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2018
(4) WEEK WORKSHOP W/LISA LATOUCHE

February 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2018
(4) WEEK WORKSHOP W/JASON BERNARD

Friday, February 9, 2018
ADULT STUDENT TASK FORCE MEETING

February 16 - 19, 2018
WINTER TAP DANCE CARNIVAL

Saturday
, May 19, 2018
DANCE PARADE

Sunday, June 17, 2018
TAP CITY YOUTH CONCERT

June 23, 2018
ADULT STUDENT SHOWCASE

July 7 - 13, 2018
TAP CITY 2018

July 11, 2018
RHYTHM IN MOTION

July 15 - 29, 2018
TAP TEACHER TRAINING PROGRAM

WINTER TAP DANCE CARNIVAL!
February 16 - 19, 2018
 
 
 
For details Step Right Up! HERE

Saturday, May 19, 2018
Dance Parade
 

 

 

 July 7 - July 13, 2018
  Tap City 2018

 

 
ATDF's comprehensive training program in teaching rhythm tap to children, teens, and adults

July 16-22, 2018


Rhythm tap technique
Copasetic Canon repertory
Pedagogy
Jazz music concepts, tap composition & improvisation
Tap history
Mentored independent work
  Certificate issued by the ATDF
  

"Amazing amount of useful information"

"this training is wonderful
...invaluable"
(our graduates)

For information visit: 

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Student of the Month!
Nettie Elenion
   
Nettie Elenion is a native New Yorker, from New York City's Lower East Side and is first and foremost a ballet dancer. Nettie has taught at Manhattan Ballet School, Ballet Hispanico and Abron Arts Center. She was the ballet coach for the Jr. Rhythmic Olympics team at the Taiwan Center in Flushing and for So You Think You Can Dance hip hop dancer Toshihiko Nakazawa. Nettie was trained at the Joffrey Ballet School and has danced with companies on every continent except the Antarctic, among them Urban Ballet Theater, Hartford Ballet, and the Cuban National Ballet. In addition to her dancing, she has modeled for articles featured in Vogue and Cosmopolitan. She has also appeared on 60 minutes in the two part feature "The Training of a Dancer" and on the Conan O'Brien Show as a featured dancer in a skit with Conan O'Brien.
 
In the course of recovering from foot surgery, Nettie wanted to dance but ballet was not on the list of "To Do's" so she turned to tap.
Starting at Ballet Academy East with basic theater tap technique, she soon learned there are different styles of tap. Being a big fan of Gregory Hines, she realized rhythm tap was what she really wanted to do.
 A colleague told Nettie about American Tap Dance Foundation, and she has been a faithful student of the art since.
 
Nettie Elenion is also currently enrolled in the CUNY BA program at Grove School of Engineering, where she is an astrophysics major, taking one class a semester and hoping to graduate before she turns 90.
 

RELATED RHYTHMS   
These are New York City tap dance events not produced by the American Tap Dance Foundation.
 
If you would like your tap dance event or news included, please email info@atdf.org with the who, what, where, and when by the 25th of the month prior to your event.



 

On That Note: A Night of Tap and Jazz
February 16, 2018

Christina Carminucci and Samara Seligsohn
are bringing their original sell-out evening of tap dance and live jazz, On That Note, to Feinstein's/54 Below.




     


American Tap Dance Foundation
Staff  
Tony Waag - Artistic/Executive Director
Susan Hebach - Youth Program/TCYE Director
Craig Fuchs - Education Assistant
ATDF
Liz Cousins - Studio Operations Manager
Margaret Morrison - Education Advisor  
Constance Valis Hill Ph.D. - Director of Preservation
Mark Kellogg - Design
Morgan McMahon - Social  Marketing 
  
Board of Directors 
Tony Waag - ATDF Artistic/Executive Director
Erica Marks Panush - ATDF Board Co-Chair
Lisa M. Scotto - ATDF Board Co-Chair
Debra Beard
Mercedes Ellington
Maurice Hines
Bianca Kodzoman
Pamela Koslow Hines
Nancy Kremsdorf
Cynthia J. Roush
Randy Skinner
Kim Thacker 

Emeritus Board
Brenda Bufalino
Hoagy B. Carmichael
the late Charles "Honi" Coles
the late Gregory Hines
the late Bobby Short 


 

Current Supporters

The American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. would like to thank the following for their generous support: New York Department of Cultural Affairs, Howard Gilman Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Tsunami Foundation - Anson and Debra Beard, Jr. and Family, and numerous individuals, friends and families. 


 

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