Jenna Werhun and Alisha Stranges join us and share their insight on the healing power of tap dance.

Connect with Jenna here: www.jennawerhun.com

Register for the 2018 Vancouver Tap Dance Festival here: https://vantapdance.com/2018-festival/

Supplemental Music:

Turiya and Ramakrishna - Alice Coltrane

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We are joined by founder and artistic director of Holla Jazz, Natasha Powell. The hot, new Toronto based vernacular Jazz dance company debuts their premiere show called FLOOR'D April 25-28 at the Winchester Street Theatre, in Toronto. Tickets available at HollaJazz.com

Supplemental Music:

In Walked Bud - Thelonious Monk

Check out the documentary 'Everything Remains Raw' by E. Moncell Durden here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6s5KThmv7U

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This week we are joined by educator, performer, producer, artist, activist, tap dancer, Grant Swift. Calling in all the way from Melbourne, Australia, Swift shares his incredible journey through the dance and reveals the cost and benefit of perseverance.

Supplemental Music:

There is A Way - Mos Def

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Mr. Showbiz himself, Skip Cunningham joins us for a conversation about his career in entertainment and shares some valuable insights into the structure of show business in the 1960s.

Supplemental Music:

Skip Cunningham On Broadway Tonight - 1964

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Tap Dance Icon, Brenda Bufalino joins us to discuss the book Jazz Dance, and all things tap.

To connect with Brenda visit: http://brendabufalino.com/

Supplemental Music:

Charles Mingus - Tensions

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Melba Ayco is the founder and Artistic Director of Northwest Tap Connection. For more information on the NWTC visit: https://www.nwtapconnection.org/

Supplimental Music:

Kendrick Lamar - Black Panther

Janelle Monae - HELL YOU TALMBOUT

NWTC Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr-FyI-3wZ0

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We're joined by the incredibly accomplished, funny and talented tap dance artist, Jay Fagan. In this episode, we focus on the increasingly rare practice of developing an act for the stage.

To connect with Jay visit: http://www.jayfagan.com/index.php

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Quite possibly the geekiest podcast I've ever done. We spend the entire episode focusing on the brilliance of the movie TAP.

If you haven't seen the film, order it online here: https://www.amazon.com/Tap-Suzzane-Douglas/dp/B000GDH9JG

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Jessie Sawyers is an artist, tap dancer and business person who recently founded a company called Getting Unlocked. Getting Unlocked sells art and apparel as a cultural movement that encourages self-expansion and harmony throughout the changing currents of our lives. Get that someone special in your life a G.U. T-shirt in time for the holidays by ordering online from https://gettingunlocked.com/

To connect with Jessie visit: https://www.jessiesawyers.com/

Additional music:

Tenderly - Oscar Peterson

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In this episode we are joined by creator, choreographer, dancer, artist and founder of Anandam Dance Theatre in Toronto, Brandy Leary. It's an honest conversation about life, death and following our own path.

To connect with Brandy visit: http://www.anandam.ca/

Additional music:

My Funny Valentine - Chet Baker

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