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Article: The Bad Women of Tap
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- Dance Spirit
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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THREE TOP FEMALE HOOFERS BECOME "ANGELS" IN JASON SAMUELS SMITH'S TRIBUTE TO CHARLIE PARKER.
What happens when you combine the music of Charlie Parker, one of the most influential musicians in jazz history, with the Emmy Award-winning choreography of tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith and the skill of three of the most talented female tappers in the world today? You get unique and intricate footwork to the sounds of classic bebop, executed by women who can get down, be bad, kick butt and attack the choreography like all the great male hoofers who preceded them-and who can do it with a feminine and sexy vibe, to boot.
"Typically, you dance to the music, but you don't play every note. We play the ...