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Article: Imagine Tap!(Dance review)
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- Dance Magazine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Imagine Tap! July 11-August 6, 2006 Harris Theatre for Music and Dance, Chicago, IL
Imagine Tap!, with its cast of blues-gospel-pop singers and 18 of the freshest rhythm tap and break dancers on the planet, is a surreal, acid-induced tap dance dream. Choreographer-director Derick K. Grant, with co-creator Aaron Tolson and musical director Zane Mark, envision tap as a movie musical come-tolife, stars raising glistening gowns and tuxedo pants to hoof you into oblivion. Tap dance ("Echoes") is a heaven of harmonizing voices, chattering feet and a black Jesus (Grant) whose stuttering rhythms resurrect him into white light. Tap dance in "Three Chefs" is the ...