The Tap Love Tour Podcast

Searching For Henry Part 2 - Reminiscing with Linette Doherty

This is part 2 of our limited Tap Love Tour Podcast series ‘Searching For Henry’ where we gather pieces from different times and places in order to Re-member the prolific Tap Dance choreographer, Dr. Henry LeTang. This week we chop it up with actor, choreographer, educator Linette Doherty. In this conversation, Linette and I reminisce about our time on set of the Showtime film ‘Bojangles’ starring Gregory Hines, choreographed by Dr. Henry LeTang.

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This is part 1 of our limited Tap Love Tour Podcast series ‘Searching For Henry’ where we gather pieces from different times and places in order to Re-member the prolific Tap Dance choreographer, Dr. Henry LeTang. In this episode, host Travis Knights with guest David Cox and a special appearance by Latoya Bedeau, talking about their experience working with Dr. Henry LeTang on the set of the Showtime movie ‘Bojangles’.

Supplemental Audio:

Club Scene from the Showtime movie Bojangles

Henry's Shim Sham courtesy of Ethel Bruneau

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This week we are joined by multi-form dancer, choreographer, co-founder of Project Convergence, and resident artist at the American Tap Dance Foundation, Vikas Arun. We discuss how to engage in cross-cultural artistic practice with respect and integrity. Connect with Vikas here: https://www.vikasarun.com/convergence

Supplemental Audio:

Terence McKenna https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA_Dg1A2s68

GHANAN GHANAN | Project Convergence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Of8DGEw7xM&t=70s

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This a companion piece with the previous episode titled 'Rename Tap Dance'. It's taken me a minute to process this. I'm still processing things. In this episode we're going to talk about the name Hoofer as an alternative to Tap Dancer.

Supplemental Audio:

Henry LeTang - Tappin': The Making of Tap The Movie (1989)

Sandman Sims - Tappin': The Making of Tap The Movie (1989)

-Check out the full behind the scenes piece here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHZi81cCf1M&t=302s

Ethel Bruneau - unreleased podcast

Savion Glover - Savion Glover: Dance, History and Resistance

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In this week's episode, host Travis Knights proposes a strategy to begin to shed the relationship that tap has with blackface minstrelsy, by changing the name of Tap Dance itself. Send your feedback to [email protected]

Supplemental Music:

Say it Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud - James Brown

Check out the full interview with Nicholas Payton here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCuBRcxfY6I

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This week I share a major revelation that will affect the rest of my life as a tap dancer. This podcast features The First Lady of Swing, Sarah Petronio and a very special surprise at the top of the episode.

Supplemental Music:

Jason Moran Plays Thelonious Monk's Town Hall Concert. Check out the full concert here: https://www.npr.org/2015/10/08/446866440/jason-moran-plays-thelonious-monks-town-hall-concert

Check out the full interview with Sarah Petronio here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT_pR7T42w4&t=4499s

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This week we are joined by the powerful LaTasha Barnes. She is a dancer, educator, mentor and all around heavy weight in the world of jazz dance. We discuss her new relationship to discipline, the values of jazz culture, and the significance of the names we answer to.

To connect with LaTasha follow her on instagram: @tasha_b_va

Supplimental Music:

I Need You To by TOBE NWIGWE

Pickin' The Cabbage by Cab Calloway

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This week we are joined by multidisciplinary artist and traditional healer Makhosi Ingwe yaMabala also known as Samson Brown. Samson went viral last year in a touching Gillette commercial where his father guides him through his first shave. Samson Brown is a black trans man. Our conversation is rich and varied food for the soul. This is the first podcast after the murder of George Floyd so my intro is a bit all over the place… sorry, not sorry. I do hope you get something fruitful from it.

For consultation from traditional healer Makhosi Ingwe yaMabala email: [email protected]

Supplimental Music:

Anderson Paak - Lockdown

Victoria Santa Cruz - Me Gritaron Negra

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This week we are joined by celebrated tap dancer, choreographer, entrepreneur, philanthropist Chloe Arnold. The founder and artistic director of the tap dance sensation Syncopated Ladies, shares her account of the sharp pivot that saved the DC Tap Festival amid the COVID-19 pandemic. This conversation reminds us that we always have two choices.

Connect to Chloe and Maud Arnold here: https://www.chloeandmaud.com/

Supplimental Music:

Syncopated Ladies + Formation + Beyonce - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5CM89-vOvw

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This week, we reflect on the wake of COVID-19 among tap dancers and swing dancers around the world. The episode features Maud Arnold (USA), Roxane Butterfly (France), Meghan Gilmore and Anaïs Sékiné (Canada), Mika Komatsu (Japan), Junior Laniyan (Chile), Tasha Lawson (Canada), Ted Louis Levy (USA), Thomas Marek (Austria), Jonas Nermyr (Sweden), Leela Petronio (France), Nico Rubio (USA), Grant Swift (Australia), and Sebastian Weber (Germany)

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