Dorrance Dance

Start: 2020-02-29T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-02-29T22:00:00-05:00
Location: Southam Hall

Jungle Blues • Three to One • Myelination

https://nac-cna.ca/en/event/21630

Michelle Dorrance is one of the tap world’s luminaries. With her award-winning New York-based company she at once honours tap dance’s history while also pushing the art form rhythmically, technically and conceptually. In her ensemble piece Myelination, 11 dancers layer on and build up the rhythm with rapid-fire footwork to a live original jazz score by Prawn til Dante. The Bessie-Award winning Three to One shows her smart and sassy side, while the whimsical Jungle Blues...

Sat, February 29, 2020

8 PM EST

Southam Hall 1 Elgin Street Ottawa Canada

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Dorrance Dance

Feb 29, 2020 - 8 PM EST

Southam Hall

Michelle Dorrance and Byron Tittle © Matthew Murphy

Elizabeth Burke, Michelle Dorrance, Claudia Rahardjanoto © KevinParry

Dance Contemporary Cross-disciplinary

“Rhythm keeps accumulating and multiplying in ‘Myelination’… it’s an exhilarating ensemble piece” Alastair Macaulay, The New York Times

≈ 70 minutes · No intermission

Michelle Dorrance is one of the tap world’s luminaries. With her award-winning New York-based company she at once honours tap dance’s history while also pushing the art form rhythmically, technically and conceptually. In her ensemble piece Myelination, 11 dancers layer on and build up the rhythm with rapid-fire footwork to a live original jazz score by Prawn til Dante. The Bessie-Award winning Three to One shows her smart and sassy side, while the whimsical Jungle Blues slides and shimmies to the soulful sounds of Branford Marsalis.

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