Michelle Dorrance • Tap Dancer• Teacher • Choreographer http://michelledorrance.com/blog Sat, 18 May 2013 21:03:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 Michelle Dorrance to appear at Jacob’s Pillow twice this summer! http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=318 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=318#comments Sat, 18 May 2013 21:01:55 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=318 Michelle Dorrance will travel to perform at Jacob’s Pillow twice this summer; once in the June Gala, to receive the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, and again in July, when her company, Dorrance Dance / New York, will premiere “The Blues Project” with live music composed by Toshi Reagon.

This Boston Globe article talks about both of Michelle’s appearances at the Pillow this summer.

Jacob’s Pillow Gala: Saturday, June 15

Dorrance Dance at Jacob’s Pillow: July 24 – 28

For more information on these performances, please visit: Jacob’s Pillow

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=318 0 Michelle Dorrance to Perform at The Yard http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=310 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=310#comments Tue, 14 May 2013 19:13:56 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=310 The Yard’s Challenge Match Beneft with TapTheYard’s All-Stars

Michelle Dorrance will join David Parker and the BANG Group, step dancer Trent Kowalik, Camille A. Brown & Dancers, Jason Samuels Smith and Derick Grant in the 2013 Annual Benefit for The Yard, the Vineyard’s historic 41 year-old non-profit artist residency and performance center for contemporary dance, theater and related arts.

Friday, August 2, 5:30pm

 

Tap the Yard 2: A Vineyard Festival of Rhythm and Beats

Michelle Dorrance will share an evening of tap dance with Derick Grant. It will be an evening you won’t want to miss.

Saturday, August 3, 6:30pm

For more information on either of these performances, please visit: The Yard

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=310 0 Buster Brown’s Centennial Celebration http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=290 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=290#comments Sun, 12 May 2013 19:24:53 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=290 On Friday, May 17, 2013, Dr. James “Buster” Brown would have been 100 years of age. On his centennial weekend, we gather to celebrate his soaring spirit of love and generosity and the artful mastery of his chosen means of expression…tap dance. We rejoice in the teaching and re-creation of some of his most famous dance pieces, immerse ourselves in films of his work and discussions of his importance, and bring it home to party at Swing 46, site of one of his most enduring and endearing creations, the Buster Brown Tap Jam. This will be a weekend packed with memories to last a lifetime.

Classes – Tap Jams -Discussions – Performance

Michelle will be performing at the final performance at Swing 46 on Sunday, May 19 (6:00 – 8:30pm)

For full information visit: Buster’s Centennial Celebration

Come join in the celebration!

 

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=290 0 Summer Festival Teaching Schedule http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=293 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=293#comments Thu, 09 May 2013 19:28:50 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=293 Michelle Dorrance will be traveling and teaching and/or performing at the following tap festivals this summer, starting with her hometown festival in Chapel Hill, NC!

North Carolina Rhythm Tap Festival

June 7 – 9, 2013   http://www.ncyte.dreamhosters.com

Tap City, the New York City Tap Festival

July 6 – 13, 2013   http://www.atdf.org/tapcity.html

Rhythm World

July 29 – Aug 1, 2013   http://www.chicagotap.org

Prague City Tap Festival

August 12 – 17, 2013   http://www.tapfestival.cz

Dubrovnik Tap Festival

August 19 – 25, 2013   http://www.dubrovniktapfestival.com

The Vancouver International Tap Dance Festival

August 30 – September 1, 2013   http://www.vantapdance.com/tap-festival/tap-festival.php

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=293 0 Michelle Dorrance to Guest Perform in “Rhythm Evolved” http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=285 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=285#comments Thu, 25 Apr 2013 16:26:49 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=285 Michelle Dorrance  will travel to North Carolina to guest perform in the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble’s (NCYTE) show “Rhythm Evolved” this weekend.

April 27 at 7:30pm & April 28 at 2:00pm at the Carolina Theater in Durham, NC.

For more information on the company and performance visit NCYTE!

 

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=285 0 STOMP shows! http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=298 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=298#comments Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:53:39 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=298 You have another chance to catch Michelle Dorrance in the off-Broadway rhythmic sensation STOMP! She will be performing this week and in one show next week!

Tuesday (4/16), 8pm

Friday (4/19), 8pm

Saturday (4/20), 3pm & 8pm

Sunday (4/21), 2pm & 5:30pm

Tuesday (4/23), 8pm

http://www.stomponline.com

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=298 0 STOMP Shows! http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=275 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=275#comments Tue, 09 Apr 2013 02:55:02 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=275 Michelle Dorrance will be appearing this week in the New York City production of STOMP. You won’t want to miss her in this off-Broadway hit!

Tuesday (4/9), 8pm

Saturday (4/13), 8pm

Sunday (4/14),  2pm & 5:30pm

http://www.stomponline.com

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=275 0 Michelle Dorrance Creates New Work for BAM! http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=257 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=257#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:53:18 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=257 “She’s known both as a dancer and as a choreographer, as someone who can pull from the past while she pushes the future, and she’s the only tap choreographer the Princess Grace Foundation has ever recognized with a Choreography Fellowship.

Dorrance has just created a new work called Push Past Break for BAM!, the Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s exceptional resident ensemble. BAM! will perform the work on Thursday, April 4 for the Auditorium Theatre’s MUSIC + MOVEMENT FESTIVAL with a live performance by the Greg Spero Trio and jazz vocalist Teresa Thomas, before they go on to present it on tour in Michigan, at the Spring to Dance Festival in St. Louis, and again this summer at JUBA! Masters of Tap and Percussive Dance.”      -Johnny Nevin for the Huffington Post

See the full Huffington Post article here.

 

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=257 0 Celebrate the Great Women of Jazz and Blues http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=252 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=252#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:35:45 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=252 A gathering of some of New York’s best vocalists and musicians in celebration of their musical mothers. Conceived by Toshi Reagon, with musical direction by Allison Miller & Toshi Reagon, host Liza Jessie Peterson welcomes you to the “Juke Joint sanctified saloon where we are paying tribute to the Great Grand Dames, the classy and the sassy Queens of Blues Blues Blues, and Jazz Jazz Jazz, and Church Church Church” with guest tap dancer Michelle Dorrance.

Monday, March 11 at 7pm – Schomburg Center: 515 Malcolm X Boulevard, NYC

 

 

 

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=252 0 Spring Festival & Teaching Schedule http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=238 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=238#comments Wed, 27 Feb 2013 00:51:55 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=238 Michelle will be teaching at the following events this Spring:

Tap 2 You

March 1 – 2, 2013   http://www.tap2you.com/

DC Tap Fest

March 22 – 24, 2013   http://www.dctapfest.com/

Stockholm Tap Festival

March 28 – April 2, 2013    http://www.stockholmtapfestival.com/

Moscow

May 21 – 25, 2013

Odessa

May 26 – 30, 2013

 

She will also be regularly teaching at Broadway Dance Center:

Sundays 4:30 – 6pm (Advanced Tap)

Mondays 7:30 – 9:00pm (Int/Adv Tap)

Wednesdays 7:30 – 9:00pm (Adv Beg Tap)

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=238 0 Michelle Dorrance to Perform in the Martha Graham Benefit http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=249 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=249#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:27:28 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=249 FALL AND RECOVERY | One Night Only Benefit Performance

Tuesday, February 26 at 7:30pm

The Joyce Theater | 175 Eighth Avenue

Stars of the New York City dance world are joining forces to help rebuild classic Graham costumes and Noguchi sets damaged by Hurricane Sandy.  Guest artists include Wendy Whelan, Michelle Dorrance, Maria Kowroski, Francesca Harper, Irina Dvorovenko, David Neumann, and many more.

For more information on how to support this event, please visit: Fall and Recovery Benefit

 

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=249 0 More STOMP Shows! http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=273 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=273#comments Tue, 19 Feb 2013 02:49:42 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=273 If you didn’t see Michelle in STOMP last week, you have another chance! See below for her schedule this week.

Tuesday (2/19), 8pm

Thursday (2/21), 8pm

Friday (2/22), 8pm

Saturday (2/23), 3pm & 8pm

http://www.stomponline.com

 

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=273 0 STOMP Shows! http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=264 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=264#comments Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:16:06 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=264 Don’t miss Michelle Dorrance performing in STOMP this week!

Tuesday (2/12), 8pm

Friday (2/15), 8pm

Saturday (2/16), 3pm & 8pm

Sunday (2/17), 2pm

http://www.stomponline.com

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=264 0 Teaching at Rockin’ In Rhythm http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=267 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=267#comments Mon, 04 Feb 2013 02:23:05 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=267 Michelle Dorrance will be teaching two master classes at the American Tap Dance Foundation’s Rockin’ in Rhythm weekend. Youth ensembles from around the world will gather in New York City to take part in master classes and perform at Symphony Space on February 16th & 17th.

Michelle’s choreography, CutTide, will also be presented in the Rockin’ In Rhythm performance on February 16th.

See the full details here.

]]> http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?feed=rss2&p=267 0 Michelle Dorrance to travel to Chicago to set choreography and teach! http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=302 http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=302#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:07:46 +0000 Michelle Dorrance http://michelledorrance.com/blog/?p=302 Princess Grace Award winner, Michelle Dorrance ,will travel to Chicago February 4 – 10 to set new choreography on BAM!, Chicago Human Rhythm Project’s resident company.

While there, Michelle will also teach February 8 – 10 at the Chicago Human Rhythm Prject’s WInter Tap Jamboree. She will be joined by Lisa La Touche and many of Chicago’s finest tap dancers including Lane Alexander, Bril Barrett, Nico Rubio and more!

For more information, please visit: Winter Tap Jamboree

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