WHO: Tapestry Dance Company

WHAT: Sound & Silence – The Rhythms of Life

WHERE: The Long Center / Rollins Theatre

WHEN: October 18^th– 21^st 2018 / (Thurs/Fri/Sat @ 8pm, Sat/Sun @ 2:00pm)

WEB: www.tapestry.org

TIX: www.thelongcenter.org

MEDIA: For details, access, images, and interviews soulsfeet@mac.com and 512/695-6560

Tapestry Dance Company presents the premiere of Sound & Silence – The Rhythms of Life

(Austin, TX) – Tapestry Dance Company, the worlds only repertory tap dance company presents the premiere of Acia Gray’s Sound & Silence – The Rhythms of Life.

Presenting some of the best world-class tap dancers from the US, Brazil, Israel and the UK right here in Austin, TX, the company will present an evening of “sound wonder.” Utilizing the relationship between silence and sound, the company will experiment with the textures, emotion, and reactions of the sounds of our everyday lives as well as the unspoken relationships we have with each other. Utilizing a palette of diverse music and play, this is tap dance at its finest and most daring.

Utilizing the structures from jazz to classical to hip-hop and alternative music, this world-class tap dance concert shares the power of rhythm and virtuoso technique from some of the best tap dancers in the world showing the diversity of this indigenous American art form. An education in the musicality beyond what most people see as tap dance, Tapestry presents rhythm tap as the incredible tool of communication through improvisation and choreography the goes beyond the stereotype. If you haven’t seen Tapestry Dance Company, you haven’t experienced the possibilities of rhythm, emotion and communication as the incredible language of listening.

We are all unique in our perspective of life’s journey and tap dance creates the beautiful orchestra of community. The magic word: Listen.

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ABOUT TAPESTRY DANCE COMPANY

Long Center Resident Company, Tapestry is a professional, non-profit dance organization founded in 1989 for the purpose of developing a foundation in multi-form dance performance and education and is home to the only full-time, repertory tap dance company in North America. TDC is home to eight resident artists from around the globe, one of the oldest annual international tap dance festivals in the world, educational outreach programs as well as a pre-professional and adult training facility sharing the unique training syllabus of founders Acia Gray and Deirdre Strand.

The events and programs of Tapestry Dance Company include seasonal concerts at Austin’s Long Center, The Annual Soul to Sole Festival, community outreach programs such as Rhythm, Dance, Music & You!, numerous master classes and workshops as well as touring residencies throughout the world managed by Holden Arts & Associates.

The company’s recent production of “In Your Shoes” won best ensemble by The Austin Critic’s Table Awards, Passing It Forward – The American Dream? is now listed on the TCA Touring Roster and the company’s NEA Masterpiece production of The Souls of Our Feet -­ A Celebration of American Tap Dance toured The People’s Republic of China for 5 weeks and director Acia Gray has been asked to set a national syllabus for Chinese tap dance curriculum. Tapestry Dance Company is funded and supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

ABOUT Artistic Director ACIA GRAY

As soloist, choreographer and master teacher, Ms. Gray has toured extensively across the U.S. and abroad to include England, Ireland, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, China, Spain, Brazil, Canada and Austria and has shared the stage with such tap greats as Gregory Hines, Savion Glover and Donald O’Connor to name a few.

In June/2002, Ms. Gray was inducted as a premiere member of the Austin Arts Hall of Fame and was nominated for a prestigious Alpert Award in the Arts as well as being a choreographer chosen for the NEA National College Choreography Initiative. Her critically acclaimed book and Amazon.com category bestseller The Souls of Your Feet – A Tap Dance Guide for Rhythm Explorers is available at all major bookstores and has been translated in the Czech Republic and China.

Profiled in Dance Teacher Now magazine, Ms. Gray also served on the NEA funded Steering Committee for the National Tap Plan, was recently recognized as a leader in the field in Lynn Dally’s UCLA event Women In Tap. Ms. Gray toured her work The Souls of Our Feet – A Celebration of American Tap Dance through the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces: Dance Initiative, was awarded the Third Coast Rhythm Project’s “Legacy Award” and honored as the “2008 Texas Tap Legend” by the Dallas Dance Council and is the 2010 recipient of the “Hoofer Award” by Tap City – The New York City Tap Festival. Ms. Gray currently serves as the Director of the International Tap Association.