About This Show

The Story of Tap: 20th Anniversary is a continuation of a series originally done at Dixon Place for six evenings in 1998 and 2005. It returned for one night in 2015 and 2017 and comes back again this year. It is a narrative of tap dance, rather than some definitive history of it. Hank Smith will engage in conversation with performers about tap and associated art forms. Film clips will be shown and the performers will cover different perspectives on experience by telling their stories through words, movement and music. It’s all an improvisation. The story keeps going…