EXPLORES IDENTITY AND LEGACY IN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PLAY. IT’S CALLED DIARY OF A TAP DANCER, AND IT’S PREMIERING ON STAGE THIS MONTH AT THE AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER IN CAMBRIDGE. JOINING US NOW IS ...

Juanita Pitts. Jeni Le Gon. Cora LaRedd. Louise Madison. Marion Coles. Nearly every time she’s handed a microphone, tap dancer Ayodele Casel finds a way to invoke these names: the names of the women ...

CAMBRIDGE - Writer, dancer, choreographer and actor Ayodele Casel is telling her own story in a world premiere piece at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Diary of a Tap Dancer ...

Amanda Castro, with percussionist Senfu Stoney, performed in Ayodele Casel's "Chasing Magic" at The Joyce Theater in NYC. (Courtesy of Kurt Csolak) Tap dance has gone in and out of fashion in the U.S.

For professional tap dancer and educator Quynn Johnson, tap dance is a never ending process. “There are levels of tap dance that for me still have yet to be unlocked, and there is a lot of work that I ...