Tap Dance and Music Motif Explorations Workshop
Location: Heartbeat Performing Arts Center
Instructors: Andy and Rick Ausland
Take your tap dance experience to another level. Bring your tap shoes and instruments (guitar, keyboard, cowbell, triangle hand drum, music sticks, beaded gourd, Udu, harmonica, etc.) to Groove on the Promenade, an exploratory workshop into the depths of performance arts. Don’t have an instrument? Found objects are encouraged like a bucket, pot and pan or a shoe box. Heartbeat has several hand drums students can use if desired. Let’s make it groove!
Sunday, November 9 — registration due by Wednesday, November 5
1:15-2:30pm: Tap Advanced, Ages 12-Adult
3:00-4:15pm: Tap Intermediate, Ages 12–Adult
Each workshop class is $25.
Andy and Rick are renowned professional tap dancers, musicians, producers, music composers, choreographers and theatrical performers. They are co-founders of music and tap dance companies, Ten Foot Five and Buckets & Tap Shoes. Andy and Rick have graced several prominent stages locally and nationally in 39 of the 50 states, including Hawaii and U.S. Virgin Islands. They have performed and taught internationally in Austria, Ecuador, Finland, Malta and Russia. These brothers are pumped to bring their dance and music workshop to tap students ages 12-adult. Groove on the Promenade is an exploration mixing tap dance, found object percussion, musical instruments, improvisation and story.