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SAVE THE DATE: June 30th and July 1st, 2012 at Dance Place
Good Foot Dance Company Presents…
Vaudevival: Old is the new New ricochets through pockets of 20th century American vernacular dance and popular entertainment to reflect the cyclical nature of art and society. The theatre will reel with live music and vintage dance re-imagined, re-invented and re-respected, churning up a new flavor of culture jam.
A stellar line up of dancers and musicians including special guests Baakari Wilder and Capital Tap will entertain and amaze you. YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS SHOW!!!
More about the show: www.vaudevival.com
Tickets: www.danceplace.org
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Lovechild of Gene Kelly and Dracula?
“…Winning… my favorite dance among the 12 performed… the audience gets a kick out of their performance.” -Cville Weekly
“…high-energy traditional Appalachian song and dance!” -The Boston Phoenix
“Good Foot Dance Company is Rock-N-Roll on feet.” -Ray Snably
“…They made it hard to look away with their lightning footwork. Pete Seeger himself was hanging out backstage and reveling in the show… If you get a chance to see them, they’re unlike anything we’ve seen so far at Newport, and you won’t be disappointed.” -WERS Music
“Purveyors of the most sensual clogging this dance afficianado has ever seen” -Christian Breeden of American Dumpster
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Good Foot Dance Company mixes and remixes traditional and vernacular movement into an exhilarating rhythmic journey through American percussive dance. Taking inspiration from the connections between Irish and European step dance, Appalachian flatfooting, tap, and contemporary movement, we seek a theatrical crossroads that will propel percussive dance into the 21st century.
Past Performances:
Performatica festival in Cholula, Mexico
The Newport Folk Festival (With The Seeger Clogging All-Stars)
The Washington Folk Festival
The Live Arts Dance Festival in Charlottesville, VA
Saint Mary’s College with the Chesapeake Symphony Orchestra
The tap-dancing Vampirates in Wunderkammer and Shentai.
The driving force behind the company is the partnership of Emily Oleson, Matthew Olwell and Meg Madden. They began working together in 2004, and quickly uncovered a shared love of traditional and contemporary dance that has taken them to festivals, theaters, schools and arts carnivals from Virginia to Mexico. Their teachers include some of the most beloved figures in the world of traditional percussive dance, including Donny Golden, Eileen Carson, The Fiddle Puppets, and Dianne Walker through The School At Jacob’s Pillow.
Between them, they bring to the floor over 30 years of experience and a list of performance highlights including Eileen Ivers’ Beyond the Bog Road, The Smithsonian Institute 150th Anniversary Celebration, The Kennedy Center, and Song of the Mountains for PBS, as well as guest artist performances with The Chieftains, Lunasa, Uncle Earl, and in the London production of Riverdance.
We delight in sharing our passion for dance with audiences and students of all ages, anywhere… And yes, we do weddings.
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