Check out our website for the next date www.londontapjam.com Live music with The Michele Drees Trio.
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The hottest improvised tap dance and live music that London has to offer at Zigfrid Von Underbelly, Hoxton Square on the last Sunday of every other month. "Some batter and blister the stage with a frenzy of beats, others adopt a gentler approach, skipping melodiously across the music" - Time Out
"There are dancers who make the hair on the back of your neck prick up - who'd have thought tap could
do that?" - The Times
Hosted by Lee Payne/ Junior Laniyan and other guests and featuring tap dancers from around the country. Doors open 7pm
Jam begins 8pm
Renegade Stage (improvisation workshop for tap dancers) 7:15pm
London Tap Jam - https://mailchi.mp/41fb7aa3770d/4gynyb0iqt-6244124
Last Tap Jam before the summer holidays.
Bring your Tap shoes or instrument.
Don't be shy if you haven't been before... you will be made very welcome, to either choose a song of your choice or Jazz Standard and come up and improvise with Michele Drees Trio. Guranteed great night out even if you just come to watch the first time.
CALLING ALL TAP DANCERS!!
How about combining a summer holiday in Barcelona whilst learning Tap Dance from some of the greatest? Wonderful! 👏🏻👞👞
Guillem Alonso Alcalay
We are delighted to start the 2nd LTF. Supported by a large number of tap professionals and enthusiasts who create the Barcelona tap community
What a truly great London Tap Jam!
Old tap friends, new tap friends!
Thank you to everyone who came 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👞👞🥁❤️
London Tap Jam TONIGHT -
TODAY ⭐️
Eventbrite link is not working.
Just come along or pay via PayPal using email on flyer.
Looking forward to seeing you all again… 🤗🥁👞👞
London Tap Jam returns 2024 -
Calling all Tap Dancers!
A chance to train with sone great teachers 👞👞
https://roxanebutterfly.com/en/tap-dance-intensives/
SCHEDULE and REGISTRATIONS forms are ONLINE !
Let's go ! Ask for your brochure!
Because of the Olympic Games, be sure to book flights and rooms way ahead! This year will be my first delegating my teachings to world-class tap ladies that make Europe a serious tap-dancing ground honoring truly the hoofing trail.
Tap dancers … NOT TO BE MISSED
Nico Rubio is in town!
Get along to Pineapple this week.
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What can I say!
What a way to end 2023.
So many new enthusiastic Tap Dancers braving the improvising floor for the first time!
Great to see our stalwarts still with us too. The support means everything ❤️
See you all in 2024
Gabriel KeenMichele Dreesalswainger.com Michele Drees Jazz Tap Project. Shanti Paul Jayasinha
Last London Tap Jam of 2023
Huge thanks to all the new tap dancers that have joined us this year 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
And of course all our long term supporters… very much appreciated.
London Tap Jam is for YOU.
Massive thanks to Tom and everyone at the Woodman, always so welcoming and supportive 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
👞👞🥁❤️
London Tap Jam returns! -
Musicality workshop for Tap Dancers Sunday 19th Nov 3.15-6.15 Storm rehearsal studio.
Details on Eventbrite 🤗👍🏻🥁👞👞
I will be running my musicality workshop for Tap Dancers again the week before every Tap Jam. 3-hour workshop. Affordable £15.
Fantastic Jam tonight ❤️🥁👞👞
Hope everyones summer was peaceful and happy 🧘♀️
Musicality workshop for Tap dancers on Sunday 17th September the week before our next London Tap Jam on 24th Sept.
Tickets through Eventbrite, PayPal or pay on the day.
£15
Learn a new Jazz Standard and lots more.
Chance to trade and call and response with Michele Drees on drum kit!
FUN!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/musicality-for-tap-dancers-workshop-tickets-715475134387
Feeling HOT HOT HOT!
Come and get even hotter…
London Tap Jam is for ALL tap dancers what ever level.
Especially those wanting to gain more experience improvising with a Jazz Trio. You will be made very welcome and supported ❤️👞👞🥁
THE LONDON TAP JAM RETURNS!
JUNE 25th 🥳
We are so proud that at 15, LTJ is the oldest Tap jam in the UK.
We are here to support all tap dancers new to improvisation.
Grab your shoes and come and improvise with a great live trio.
You’ll be made very welcome and fully supported what ever your level. 🤗 The London Tap Jam is for you.
Fancy a giggle…
What a great evening!
Thank you to everyone that made it so special, including the children that joined in!
❤️👞👞🥁
It’s tomorrow, grab your tap shoes and come along!
Anything that’s been bugging you about improvising with a live Jazz Band? Let’s get those questions and answers flowing 🤗❤️🥁👞👞
I will be running my musicality workshop for Tap Dancers again the week before every Tap Jam. 3-hour workshop. £27 which includes a £2 FEE
London Tap Jam and much more ! -
The Woodman, Archway Road
London
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TONIGHT!!! Here’s the wonderful Claire Miller trading! Always a guaranteed GREAT night out. Details in the flyer below. Come and bring your Tap shoes and improvise with a great Jazz Trio 👞👞🥁 #tapdance #jazz #londontapjam #improvisation #tapdancers #somethingdifferent #timeoutlondon #jazzjam #supportlocal #weekendvibes #latin
The fabulous Annette Walker trading. London Tap Jam returns this Sunday 13th November. At the great Woodman. 8-10pm Good food and a guaranteed great night out.
TONIGHT! Our wonderful London Tap Jam is back. New venue. Tonight it's FREE! Come to the wonderful The Woodman they have been supporting the Jazz Scene for decades, great food menu and a really cool place. Kick-off at 8pm. For more information see our web site. www.londontapjam.com
Look at the fun we have! Wonderful Tap Dancers Adele Joel UK and Helen Duffy ripping up a storm, accompanied by the inspiring playing of Al Swainger John Crawford and Michele Drees. Always a completely uplifting evening. KEEP MUSIC AND TAP DANCE LIVE! Come and support us by buying tickets from our website http://www.londontapjam.com/ Gigi’s Bar Hoxton have a fantastic new menu too! #londontapjam #jazz #improvising #jazztap #jam #jazzdance #Shoreditch #livemusic #keepmusiclive #hoxton #jazzjam #somethingfortheweekend #Rhythm
Michele Drees and Annette Walker having a brilliant conversation! London Tap Jam is such a special place, beginners up to the worlds greatest Tap Dancers can come and improvise with a live trio. Next Tap Jam is on its way. Guaranteed great night out. ❤
Arthur Duncan (born September 25, 1933) is an American tap dancer, known for his stint as a performer on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1964 to 1982, which, along with his earlier inclusion (despite Southern objections) on Betty White's variety/talk show (1954), made him the first African-American regular on variety television programs.
Chuck Green ❤️ Here is beauty to behold in every step… so natural, so organic, so musical! 3 days and counting until our amazing London Tap Jam returns LIVE after 20 months! 15 years we’ve been running. Tickets from our Website in bio above. 👆 Come and enjoy the excitement of watching Tap Dancers, of every level improvise with the Michèle Drees Trio. EVERYONE Welcome. Fantastic Gigi’s club in Hoxton🎈🎉🥳🎊 #jazz #tapdance
Watch the phenomenal Jazz Hoofer Baby Laurence! One of the greatest. This Sunday the London Tap Jam returns for our 15th Birthday 🥳 🎈 Tickets from our Website in bio above 👆 . If you love improvised Rhythm Tap come along for a guaranteed great night out! #tapdanceuk #rhythmtap #jazz #jazzdance
WE’RE BACK! 15th Birthday party for our incredible London Tap Jam! Also a Halloween Special. First, live in-person LTJ in 20 months! Tickets from http://www.londontapjam.com/ Cakes, special guests and surprises galore 🍰🧁🎈Please come and help us all Tap these lockdown blues well away! Sunday 31st October 2021. Lee Payne Hosting. Michele Drees Trio featuring alswainger.com and John Crawford this month. Join in on Taps or an instrument or just sit back and enjoy a guaranteed wonderful evening.
What a fantastic London Tap Jam last night! A huge thank you to the incredible Lisa La Touche for not only being a truly wonderful host, but for also bringing to the jam the amazing saxophonist Jaleel Shaw from backstage in Brooklyn and master drummer Tommy Campbell. What a treat! Special thanks also to the phenomenal Jumanne Taylor and Travis Knights for joining us and to all the other amazing tap dancers, musicians and everyone else that got involved from around the world. And of course a big thanks to our fantastic band leader Michele Drees for dropping by with a wonderful Brazilian tune. Big news! The next London Tap Jam will be in our actual live venue in London in July. Stay tuned for more news. 🎥 London Tap Jam live on Instagram with Jumanne Taylor jamming and Lisa La Touche hosting.
🤩 It’s TODAY! Join us from wherever you are on the globe for London Tap Jam live on Instagram today Sunday 18 April hosted by the amazing Lisa La Touche from Calgary, Canada at 7pm BST (UK)/8pm CEST/2pm EDT (NY) More info www.londontapjam.com This is a FREE event. We can’t wait!
Don’t miss London Tap Jam THIS Sunday 18 April at 7pm (UK)/ 8pm CEST/ 2pm EDT (NY) live on Instagram from Calgary, Canada! Our amazing guest host Lisa La Touche, was an original cast member of “Shuffle Along or the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed” on Broadway choreographed by Savion Glover and directed by George C. Wolfe. Along with the ensemble Lisa was a recipient of the Fred Astaire award for “Outstanding Ensemble in a Broadway show” and the A.C.C.A. Actor’s Equity Award for “Outstanding Broadway Chorus”. The show centres on the backstage story of one of the first Broadway musicals with both an all-black cast and all-black creative team. It broke taboos, letting black performers take on traditional roles, sing love songs and tell a real story. For more jam info www.londontapjam.com This is a FREE event. 🎥 clip from the Broadway show “Shuffle Along Or The Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed" created by George C Wolfe and choreographed by Savion Glover.
Here we have a few of the extraordinary women tap dancers of the 20s/30s and 40s. These black women were not only having to create and navigate a career for themselves in a time of segregation and incredible prejudice, but they were also competing in the traditionally male world of tap. They are truly amazing pioneers of the dance who's achievements have largely been written out of tap dance history. 🎥 1: Juanita Pitts was known at the time for dressing and dancing like a man. The legendary Lindy hop dancer Frankie Manning refers to Juanita in this autobiography as “one of the top notch female tap dancers around.” He also got Juanita to put together a few tap steps for the middle of his routine. Film clip: It happened in Harlem 1945. 🎥 2: Cora LaRedd was Harlem singer and tap dancer of the 1920s and 1930s, known for her hard-hitting rhythm-tap style. She was not only a star on Broadway, but she was a noted female soloist at the Cotton Club and one of the most extraordinary tap dancers of the time. Bunny Briggs saw Cora dancing at the Cotton Club and said “she could really dance.” Film clip: That's the Spirit (1933). Featuring a band led by Noble Sissle. Singing the song “Jig Time.” 🎥 3: Here we have the amazing Lois Bright, part of the renown Miller Brothers and Lois, who performed from the 1920s to the 1940s. Lois was born and raised in Chicago. Skilled in rhythm tap, flash, and acrobatics, she married Danny Miller, of the famed Miller Brothers (Danny and George), an act that had been performed by brothers George and Danny from 1927 and initially composed of the brothers and Charles Honi Coles. In the words of Cholly Atkins Lois had “true taps. No jive taps. She’d make ‘em all! Some things that I couldn’t get the guys to do, she got right away.” Lois Bright not only tap danced with her male peers, which was very rare, but she tap danced just as well, if not better.
