Posts tagged with tap dance

Eternal Telethon 11: Día de los Muertos

October 29th, 2009

UPDATE: On Sunday, November 1, I’ll be doing a tap piece with Emery Martin on drums at 4:45 pm PST (California time). Ponce De Leon goes on at 5:40 pm PST.

Upcoming performance in Los Angeles and streaming online:

The ETERNAL TELETHON is a series of webcasts dedicated to raising money for the Eternal Convalescent Home for Retired Artists (E.C.H.R.A.), a sanctuary for fatigued creatives that will be located on the Salton Sea.

From 3-8pm PST on November 1st please visit us online at http://www.eternaltelethon.com or http://www.ustream.tv/channel/eternal-telethon to participate in the Eternal Telethon! We’d love to see you there! Visitors can chat with us, watch the entertainment, and even interact with the performers.

For those of you who’d like to see Eternal Telethon 11 live, we will be broadcasting from 5676 York Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90042. Please feel free to drop by!

Featured Performers Include:
The Finches
Krystal Krunch
Audrey Chan*
Paul Pescador
Ponce de Leon**
Deirdre McConnell and Anna Mayer
Daniel Ingroff
BYOFF
Anna Jones
A Little Dessert Survive
Guan Rong
Bad Vibrations
Kim Thompson
Patrick Woody
Jenn Bruce
Aaron Wrinkle
John Martin and Antone Konst
John Brrrlogg
Adam and John
John Burzzling
Kiki Johnson
God = Genocide (playing songs from the american song bag)
Marcos Siref
Lawrence Joseph McEvoy III
Adam Overton
Abraham Lincoln
Sugar Plum Jackson
Call Me Warthog

The Eternal Telethon series is run by John Burtle, Akina Cox, and Niko Solorio.

* I’ll be doing a tap dance number with Emery Martin on drums
** …and singing/dancing backup for the band Ponce De Leon with John Hogan, Dave Reich, and Carrie Collins. Now on Facebook!

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“Counts of 8″ @ A Day in L.A.: Washington Boulevard Art Concert

October 9th, 2009

[Please note, I did not create this video.]
“Counts of 8″
Since moving back to Los Angeles, I’ve been re-learning tap at the Debbie Allen Dance Academy in Baldwin Hills‘ Crenshaw Plaza. All of the combinations that we learn are structured around beat counts of 8, further broken down into 1/2, 1/4, 1/8 beats, etc. Choreography in tap usually starts on the 8th beat. My Achilles heel as a tap dancer is that I’m still learning how to count rhythm, the 1-and, 2-and, 3-and, etc. My grandmother exercises her reflexes every morning by clapping her hands, keeping a beat as regular as a metronome. By concentrating on my grandmother’s steady beat, I hope my tap dancing will steadily improve.
- Audrey Chan

Location: NW corner of W. Washington Blvd. and Crenshaw Blvd. (next to Universal Car Seat Cover, Lock & Key), Mid-City, Los Angeles, California
Time: 3:40-4:00 pm
For more information and inspirational tap videos, please see my blog post at http://washblvd.blogspot.com.
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“A Day in L.A.: Washington Boulevard Art Concert”
Over 60 artists reinterpret public space along entirety of Washington Blvd.

WHERE: The entire length of Washington Blvd., from Whittier to Venice Beach
WHEN: October 11, 2009 12PM-6PM

“A Day in L.A.” shows work from over sixty Los Angeles artists and non-artists in unused public outdoor spaces along the entire length of Washington Boulevard’s 27 miles, from Whittier to Venice Beach. For one day artists will perform works, create installations, facilitate happenings, and make music in unexpected spaces, such as on the sidewalk, between dumpsters, along railroad tracks, as well as inside the audience’s cars as they traverse one of LA’s most iconic boulevards.

Curated by Stephen Van Dyck

Visit http://washblvd.tk for more information about the day’s events and artists.

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