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I want tap to be something danced in arenas. Sort of like a rock group. Other art forms happen every night. Take theater, opera; there's always opera happening every night.

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Whatever you do, just learn about what you're doing; get into it.

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The sound of tap is not 'clickety clickety tap tap,' this monotone thing. The sound of tap has depth. We want you to hear the different highs and lows, the bass, the trebles and the melodies, if you can.

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My mom always had me and my brother watching old Fred Astaire movies.

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My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story.

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I can hold a note, but that's about it.

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Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.

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I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.

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I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.

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What we're looking for at my school is intellectuals. People who want to talk about the art and be knowledgeable about it. People who want to know the history. Not everybody needs to be performing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dancer

Born: November 19th, 1973

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