Have you ever wanted to be a part of a Hollywood picture, but felt too far removed from the industry?

Well here’s your chance!

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The competition begins April 1st, 2012 and ends July 15th, 2012. Visit www.TAPWORLD1.com to learn how you can become part of this groundbreaking documentary.

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Greek tap dancer and body percussionist Thanos is the mastermind behind the TapMotif Rhythm Summit festival. He was mentored by Heather Cornell and Max Pollak, both recent guests of London Tap Jam. Now Thanos himself is teaching masterclasses in London for the first time.

Sunday 22nd April
at Pineapple Dance Studios
6 Langley Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JA

Rhythm Nature (see below) 1pm – 2.30pm
Improvisation 3pm – 4.30pm

London Tap Jam 8pm – 11pm

All classes are £25 on the door. Discounts are for advance purchase only.

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“Rhythm Nature”
A universal rhythmical way of perceiving tap dance as a percussive instrument, learning through different musical genres like African, Latin, Jazz, Eastern, Greek.

Sound Vocalization, Groupings (or blocks or additive rhythm), Rhythmic pyramid
Pulse, Polymeters, Polyrhythms, Odd Meters

About Thanos Daskalopoulos
Thanos is a leading figure of tap dance and body music in Greece, while sharing and performing around the globe. Mentored by Heather Cornell and Max Pollak, his work focuses on the music delivered from the body sounds and percussive movement, fusing and expanding to various musical styles from jazz & funk, afro & latin, to his eastern and Balkan roots.

As an educator Thanos teaches tap and body music regularly in Athens at the studio Playground, body music and percussion at the Orff professional training program and rhythm dance at the swing community Athens Lindy Hop.

He is constantly giving workshops sharing tradition, concepts, approaches and knowledge in Greece and abroad in countries like Spain, USA, Switzerland, UK and more.

Artistic director of Tapmotif, Thanos has been a host of tap and body music events for nearly a decade in Greece, with the main yearly event being Rhythm Summit by Tapmotif, a contemporary study center for jazz & world music alongside with rhythm & percussive dances in Lefkada Greece. Rhythm Summit is an ongoing process and a result of his continuous collaboration with Heather Cornell and Max Pollak.

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@10.00-12.00 Weds 16th November 2011

Dance Attic Studios
368 North End Road, London, SW6 1LY
Fulham Broadway Underground

‘Scratched’ is a dance comedy, premiering for the opening night of The Place’s Resolution! season.

An unpaid opportunity – dancers are required for 6 hours per week for 5 weeks approx, and be available to perform on 6th January 2012.

Strong Tap necessary. Experience of dance theatre and/or of collaborative dance devising processes is beneficial.

Please register with CVs to Lexi Bradburn: lexi_lou44@hotmail.com

Kindest Regards,

Lexi Bradburn
The Ticket Theatre Dance
‘Scratched’
@ Resolution! 6th January 2012

They are looking for strong dancers with a good sense of rhythm and ability to be open to and take on a range of styles. Applicants should be highly skilled in one of the following:

Lindy Hop
Tap
B/Boy-Girl
Contemporary

Please note all applicants must be British or have official right to work in the UK

All applications should be made to Janesalberg@aol.com

NB: This is paid work opportunity. No travel or accommodation costs will be provided.

Jane Salberg
Casting Director

A film screening and live performance

Internationally renowned tap dancer Junior Laniyan presents the rarely seen documentary “No Maps On My Taps”, which tells the story of tap as an expression of black heritage and culture.

The story and spirit of tap in its heyday, shown in rare photographs and Hollywood film clips of the 1930s, provides a backdrop for intimate portraits of three veteran ‘hoofers’, Sandman Sims, Chuck Green and Bunny Briggs.

For all dance afficionados, No Maps on My Taps is an indispensable historical record of this distinctly American art form.

The Screening will be followed by an exciting live tap performance featuring jazz music from The Michele Drees Trio, featuring Patrick Bettison (bass), John Crawford (piano) and Michele Drees (drums).

Bernie Grant Arts Centre
Town Hall Approach Road
Tottenham Green
London N15 4RX
United Kingdom

Price: £8 / £6 concessions
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Taal

Clore Studio Upstairs,
The Royal Opera House,
Bow Street,
Covent Garden,
London,
WC2E 9DD,
United Kingdom

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Taal is a collaboration between Alesandra Seutin (Afro Eclectic dance) and Annette Walker (Tap dance). It is one of the new ROH2 commissions for Exposure: Dance 2011

Exposure: Dance celebrates distinctive work created by inspiring young and more established choreographers.

Exposure: Dance PROGRAMME 2 21 AND 22 JULY: Stephanie Schober ‘Traffic’ / Alesandra Seutin ‘Taal’ / Devaraj Thimmaiah ‘Arranged Marriage’ / Cameron McMillan ‘If Nobody Speaks’
Running time: 1 hour 10 minutes (no interval)
Price £12.50 (£10.50 student)
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Address: 25 Swan Street, The Northern Quarter, Manchester, M4 5JZ

Join us as we go back to the roots of tap dancing– improvised dance with live jazz from the amazing Michael Cretu Trio and special guest dancers. The culmination of the latest Tap Rhythm Project course at Band on the Wall; dancers from beginners to pro take the stage hosted by dancer/choreographer and Tap Rhythm Project founder Jess Murray. Whether you want to dance or simply enjoy seeing tap danced with great world class jazz musicians, this is an event that everyone will enjoy.

If you fancy a tap try-out we have shoes that you can use on the free ‘Renegade Stage’ taster workshop at 7pm in the Picturehouse with course tutor Karen Wood. No experience necessary. Tap shoes provided.

There will be an open workshop with special guest Junior Laniyan before the main event kicks off on the main stage for intermediate and advanced tappers in Education Room 1 from 6.30-7.30pm. Price £12 payable at the Box Office as you arrive. NB Please enter through the Red Door for this workshop.

Children under 16 are welcome to this evening as long as they are accompanied by an adult.

http://bandonthewall.org/events/3197/

Greece is geographically and culturally located between Mediterranean and the Balkans, between East and West, and there lies all the richness of its folk tradition, able to merge all these elements together.

This might constitute already a reason for an artist, born or living in Greece, to be naturally used to contamination and open-minded, able to conceive tradition as something which is not to be preserved in museums, but to be lived and used, even in contemporary and experimental creative directions.

This is exactly the challenge that has been driving on their personal artistic paths, so far, each one of the three members of Kantu Korpu: Yiota Peklari, Thanos Daskalopoulos and Simone Mongelli. And of course it represents the core idea of the project itself: building an innovative show starting from traditional material.

Yiota is a Greek flamenco dancer, Thanos is a Greek tap dancer, and Simone is an Italian percussion player living in Greece: the shaping of their personal languages is based on their deep knowledge and long study of traditional techniques, which they apply to their own individual artistic needs of self-expression, of creative research. Without ever forgetting the deep respect that tradition deserves, they keenly remark.

With Kantu Korpu, their new challenge is a serious one, since their rendering of Greek tradition, or, better, their personal creations inspired by it, are completely made with one and only instrument: the human body!

By clapping, stepping, snapping, singing, beating their bodies, they build a surprising musical effect, where from the primary sources of inspiration they get to a truly outstanding, rich and powerful rhythmic result, where choreographies and a slight touch of humour contribute to the creation of an enjoyable contemporary body music show.

Founded in 2009, Kantu Korpu counts already a good number of collaborations, with Greek bands “Kitrina podilata” and “Musica mista”, with international tap dancers and performers Leela Petronio (from Stomp), Max Pollak (RumbaTap) and Heather Cornell, and appearances in festivals like “Going Youth” in Athens and “TapMotif Rhythm Summit” in Lefkada.

Check out their “singing (and sounding) bodies”:

Percussive Feet

12th & 13th July 2011, 9pm
Martin Harris Centre for music & Drama
Bridgeford Street, M13 9PL
Manchester, United Kingdom

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Snapping fingers clapping hands & scatting songs as the metal of tap shoes smacks down upon floor boards. Back by popular demand, Percussive Feet returns with its wild exuberant Stamps, Claps, Taps & array of Funk, Music & Dance. With performers from shows such as Riverdance, Stomp, Chicago, Singing in the Rain & More…

www.bruckfeetproductions.magix.net/website/

Past performances

Brighton Festival Fringe, UK
23 May – 25 May 2011, 9pm-10pm
Friends meeting house
Ship Street
Brighton, United Kingdom