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Tap dancers perform at the 2010 Tapology Festival in Flint, Michigan.
Tap dancers perform at the 2010 Tapology Festival in Flint, Michigan.

Tap dance instruction via professional contemporary and historical performing artists has earned Tapology a name for quality workshops, historical education and concert performances.

Tapology is known as the dance instruction event where everyone is welcome, from beginners to seniors, and all in between.
 
Tapology Dance Festival

October 28-30, 2011

Location: Flint Institute of Music

 

David-Gilmore

 

The Tapology Festival offers a jam-packed schedule of tap dance activities over a four-day weekend. This dance festival is distinctive in that it offers events for Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced and Senior students.

The tap dancers weekend begins with workshops on Friday evening, honors Living Legend David Gilmore at Saturday afternoon’s Honoree Luncheon, hosts the Tap Competition with $1,500 in prizes on Saturday night and the Tapology Concert on Sunday evening.

Preview the classes and instructors and find out more about fees and online registration HERE!
 
Tapology Concert

Date: 7 p.m. Sunday, October 30, 2011
Location: The Whiting
Ticket Prices: $20 balconies / $25 orchestra
Group, Student & Senior discounts available

Kendrick-Jones
The Tapology Concert is the tap dance extravaganza featuring tap in all its forms.

Tapology features the hottest names in contemporary tap and some of the most important artists to have graced an American stage in the past 80 years!

The Tapology Concert features: Tap, African, Jazz and Step dance, showcasing the wide variety of percussive dance styles popular in performance today.

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Dance Festival Payment Options

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Our Mission

To preserve and promote the art of dance
through performance, education, and community outreach

What is Tapology?

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Tapology: The study of tap dance, its history and its impact on contemporary life, art and entertainment.

Tapologist: A master tap dancer, who contributes to the future of Tap Dance as an art form, setting an example by maintaining performance excellence, and educating the public about the rich history and culture of the dance.

 

Tap Facts

In the late 1950s, Harold Cromer became the master of ceremonies on The Biggest Show of Stars, introducing such major Rock and Roll and Soul talents as Buddy Holly, Fats Domino, Chubby Checker, Frankie Avalon, Chuck Berry, Aretha Franklin, and Marvin Gaye