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A "Troupe Dahpé" (Sao Paulo, SP) estará se apresentando no programa
"Curtindo uma Viagem" do Celso Portioli (SBT), no domingo, 02/09, às
13:30hs. A coreografia é "Funk'N Lata", de Kátia Barao, que faz
parte do espetáculo "Escuta Aqui!". Contato: (0xx11) 3662-0415. A
informaçao é de Lidia Duarte.

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De 20 a 31 de agosto, no Ribeirao Shopping (Ribeirao Preto, SP),
todas as segundas, quartas e sextas, está acontecendo o evento
"Talentos da nossa gente". As apresentaçoes do último dia 22/08
contaram com a participaçao das professoras Christiane Matallo
(Campinas, SP), que abriu o evento com o solo que apresentou no
festival de St. Louis (EUA) recentemente, e Juliana Garcia (Ribeirao
Preto, SP) que apresentou, com Christiane, a coreografia "Raízes",
adaptada para duo. 

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Juliana Garcia aproveita para parabenizar o grupo de sapateado
infantil do Balé Renata Celidonio (Ribeirao Preto, SP) pela
conquista do 3o. lugar na "Ginastrada Regional", se classificando
para a fase estadual que acontece em setembro. 

Fica registrada também a participaçao das coreografias "Bastidores da
Limpeza" (Dania Amaral) e "Samba no pé" (Adriana Mazza) no McDia
feliz (18/08) em beneficio ao GACC (Grupo de Apoio às Crianças com
Câncer).

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Off-Tap: O Ballet Kirov fará um espetáculo adicional em Sao Paulo,
no dia 01 de setembro às 16h, no Credicard Hall (Av. das Naçoes
Unidas, 17955- SP (0xx11) 5643-2500). A companhia russa de Sao
Petersburgo dança "O Lago dos Cisnes". Os ingressos custam de R$
30,00 a R$ 250,00. 

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Todas as noites de shows durante o "I New York City Tap Festival"
foram especiais, sempre com grandes performances de origem e estilos
variados, ritmos ímpares, carisma, talento e emoçao. Falamos aqui em
diversas oportunidades de noites como a "Tap Internationals", onde
se apresentaram, do Brasil, Cintia Martin, Claudio Figueira, Steven
Harper e a companhia Só de Sapato, bem como as "Tap Mentors" e "Tap
All Stars", onde a também brasileira Cintia Chamecki dançou. Mas nao
podemos deixar de destacar a noite de gala do festival, "Tap City",
que aconteceu no dia 12 de julho.

A "Tap City" foi a noite VIP deste grande festival que aconteceu
entre 07 e 15 de julho. De caráter beneficente, teve como anfitriao
Tony Waag, produtor do festival, que trouxe ao palco performances
especialíssimas de grandes nomes do sapateado mundial. Foram
concedidas ainda duas premiaçoes/homenagens: "The Hoofer Award",
para Gregory Hines, e "The Tap Preservation Award", para Marda Kirn
e o "NY Committee To Celebrate National Tap Dance Day". Abaixo,
transcrevo a reportagem (no original, em inglês) que saiu no "The
New York Times" sobre as apresentaçoes da "Tap City", texto que
apresenta de forma sucinta o que rolou por lá: 

"The Old Tap and the New Team Up With Affection" (autora: Jennifer 
Dunning)

Tap, like the rest of the world, has changed since the days of the
great solo dancers. That was one message of "Tap City," the central
program of the inspired New York City Tap Festival, on Thursday night
at the Duke on 42nd Street. Another message was that this peculiarly
American, peculiarly lovable art form is still a lot of fun to watch
and even, occasionally, as exalted as those earlier tapsters, though
in a different way.

That kind of exaltation was present in "Just You, Just Me," an
improvisational duet performed by the great Jimmy Slyde and Sarah
Petronio, a dream of a dancer though less well known than the
redoubtable Mr. Slyde. Ms. Petronio has the relaxed and worldly chic
of an American transplant to Paris, where she has taught new
generations of tap performers. Mr. Slyde is a product of the
once-traditional nightclub, burlesque and big-band route.

The two have performed together in Europe, and their familiarity
shows. One of the great pleasures of their number was the ease with
which they interacted and danced apart, like two old friends. Even
more, each moves with a similar delicacy and wit. Mr. Slyde's famous
slides looked almost airborne, so softly did his feet glide across
the floor. Ms. Petronio achieved a similar effect through the
subtlety and intricacy of her rhythms. There was air beneath her
feet, too.

There was a Dickensian complexity to the magically wayward
conversation between the feet of Brenda Bufalino and the saxophone
playing of Andy Laster in "Mingus Medley." Gregory Hines performed
an endearing tap-and-talk routine that included vaudeville-style
jokes and a riff on returning to the stage as a creaky old-timer.
Gleaming front and center was a silver tap shoe that Mr. Hines, a
most generous promoter of the form, had just been given as the first
recipient of the New York City Tap Festival Hoofer Award.

Savion Glover joined Mr. Hines for an unscheduled duet, notable not
only for the ways Mr. Glover's wild-genius intensity played off Mr.
Hines's more easy-going style, but also for their infectious delight
in each other.

That camaraderie was one of the happiest aspects of the evening,
which also included a breeze-blown solo by Lynn Dally, a charming
number by Marion Coles and the Silver Belles and genial appearances
by Tony Waag, who also produced the festival. The program also
included performances by the Vanaver Caravan, the American Tap Dance
Orchestra, Jeannie Hill and Billy Siegenfeld, the young O'D n' Tap
quartet , Max Pollak, Ann Kilkelly, and the tray-spinning Kurt Albert
and Klaus Bleis, the Siegfried and Roy of tap. The band also included
Frank Kimbrough (piano), Ben Allison (bass) and Eddie Ornowski
(drums).

"Sing it, Mama," Mr. Glover called out as Yvette Glover belted out a
song. "Dance, baby," she called as her son danced. It was that kind
of night.

(Agradeço a Jerusa Moura (SP) pela colaboraçao. E já há fotos desta
noite de gala no site do festival, em http://www.nyctapfestival.com
(link Pictures). Segundo Tony Waag, as fotos das noites que ainda
nao foram inseridas no site serao incluidas até o final de outubro).

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Um abraço a todos,

Marcelo Batalha

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