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Join us in Toronto on Saturday at @totapfest! Ticket link in Bio!

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one year since the best day ever! 🫶🏻

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Camp Charlotte!

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Sort of all that life is about....

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✨14k Yellow Gold Open Face with Swirl w/ Diamond ✨

Schedule Your Appointment Today! 😉
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Silky smooth unison with Jackson & Lucas! ✨ And we’re taking this work further the first week of May at @hostoscenter through @cdi_dance.

🎥 Becca Marcela Oviatt during our @worksandprocess residency at @bridgestreettheatre

#tapdance #duet #newwork #nycdance #kneeheartconnection

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Cold plunge

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- Help us celebrate an amazing week at our Guggenheim @worksandprocess residency @bridgestreettheatre in Catskill, NY!

- We worked on Part III of our piece Too soon to discover planets, too late to discover islands, which we’ve developed over the last few years at places like @nylivearts, @cprnyc, and @thenewhousecenter.

We’re so grateful for this support and can’t wait to bring the work to @hostoscenter in May via our @cdi_dance residency!

📸 @bridgestreettheatre

#tapdance #liveperformance #tapdancetheater #kneeheartconnection #artistinresidence

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From NEW ENGLAND,
Subject: Matter (@subjectmattertap)

Subject:Matter is a tap dance company based in Boston, Massachusetts. Since its founding in 2015, the company has created and performed almost 20 different pieces in more than 50 different venues across the East Coast, Midwest, and Canada. The company has been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Inside/Out Stage at Jacob’s Pillow, Joe’s Pub in New York City with Dance Now, House of Blues Boston, Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Montreal Fringe Festival, Stage 773 in Chicago, Illinois, and with a residency at MASS MoCA and The Yard. Subject:Matter is a staple of Boston’s tap dance community, holding jams and community events for all ages. Working through both the dance and music sides of the tap dance genre, Subject:Matter offers pieces that are suitable for the concert dance stage and a music festival.

Read the individual bios of this trio in the comments. ❤️🤍💙👞🏈

#TapDancersOfTheSuperBowl #SuperBowlLX #NewEnglandPatriots #BostonTapFam #tapdance

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🎂 #SaturdayTapVibes:

Happy birthday, Leon Collins!

He was born Leandre Kollins in Chicago on Feb. 7, 1922, to a father of West Indian descent. He began tap dancing at an early age, but he wanted to be a prizefighter. As a teen, Collins performed with worked with Count Basie’s orchestra, the bands of Erksine Hawkins, Earl Hines, and Tito Puente. By age 17, he relocated to Detroit, where he married blues singer Tina Dixon. The couple moved to NYC where Dixon, who was signed to perform with the Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, recommended that Collins perform with the orchestra when the opening act called out sick. Impressed by his performance, Lunceford signed Collins to a five-year contract.

Work opportunities dried out when rock and roll became popular and big bands became less in demand. He learned to play the guitar and attended the @berkleecollege in Boston. By the early 60s, he gave up dance entirely and restored cars for 14 years until tap dance began to experience a revival. At the urging of Tina Pratt and Stanley Brown, he came out of retirement to teach. In 1976, he performed with other retired dancers in a tap revival show at Boston’s New England Life Hall, which led to new opportunities. He opened a studio with Boston’s First Lady of Jazz, Mae Arnette. Star Steps Studio, was located in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston.

In 1982, the studio moved to Brookline. Leon and three of his students, Clara Brosnaham “CB” Hetherington, Dianne Walker, and Pamela Raff, opened the Leon Collins Dance Studio Inc. Leon formed a company with his students and Joan Hill (pianist). Leon Collins & Co. performed mainly in New England. He had a few bit parts in movies and is known for his exceptional tap dancing, teaching, his work with jazz and bebop and, in his later years, his work with classical music, including his rendition of “Flight of the Bumblebee”.

A documentary produced by David Wadsworth, Songs Unwritten, was filmed about Collins and released in 1989. This clip is from that documentary.

Collins died of lung cancer on April 16, 1985. He was posthumously inducted into the Tap Dance Hall of Fame in 2007.

#BlackTapDancersMatter #LeonCollins #tapdance #tapmaster

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Boston people! Join us this Saturday in Wayland, MA to hear some of the new music we've been working on and hear about our recent residency at @nextstagearts in Putney,VT! (along with selections from "Songbook" and "With Far Hand")

This tune is "The Outsiders", composed by @gregorygrooverjr

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the residency in VT wasn’t fun or awesome at all

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