Press Release

 


STEPOLOGY Presents the 2005 Bay Area Tap Festival

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MEDIA CONTACT:  Brechin Flournoy, NEQA/PR
MEDIA PHONE:  (415) 621-3186 x104

 

WHAT: STEPOLOGY, a San Francisco-based nonprofit corporation, presents the 2005 Bay Area Tap Festival.  The Festival, now in its third year, celebrates the traditions and new directions of the uniquely American art form of tap dance, and features Festival artists in a week of instructional workshop classes and a free panel discussion hosted by San Francisco Dance Center.  The Festival culminates with the Bay Area Rhythm Exchange – a production which features Festival artists in a concert performance with accompaniment by live jazz trio at San Francisco’s historic Herbst Theatre.

Veteran hoofer and film legend Arthur Duncan (Tap!, Tap Heat, the Lawrence Welk Show) leads a multi-generational, multi-racial cast of today’s tap stars from Broadway, film, and the concert stage, including Channing Cook-Holmes (Riverdance, Gangs of New York, Bojangles),  San Francisco street performer Edward Jackson, Music Director Jerry Kalaf, John Kloss (Tap Heat), Sam Weber (Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood), and more!


WHEN: 
Workshop: Mon, Aug. 15 through Fri, Aug. 19 (11AM-6PM)
Panel Discussion: Fri, Aug. 19 at 2:30PM (FREE to public)
Concert Performance: Saturday, August 20 at 8PM.

WHERE:
Workshop and Panel Discussion:
San Francisco Dance Center, 26 7th St., 5th Fl., SF, 94103
Concert Performance:
San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center
Herbst Theatre
401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA  94102

TICKETS:


$15-22.  Student/senior/group/early bird discounts available
CHARGE-BY-PHONE/INFORMATION:  (415) 392-4400
Tickets Available at CITY BOX OFFICE, 180 Redwood St.
Order Online:  www.cityboxoffice.com


REGISTER: 
The instructional workshop features a variety of levels of traditional and contemporary tap dance classes.  Workshop Registration and General Information are available online via the Festival website at www.stepology.com.