Tap On Barcelona- Classes Begin!
I’m still deciding over three classes or four as I walk pas the Sagrada Familia at eleven and bump into locals Yvan and Ludo who are on the way home to sleep after registering and… Tap On Barcelona- Classes Begin!
I’m still deciding over three classes or four as I walk pas the Sagrada Familia at eleven and bump into locals Yvan and Ludo who are on the way home to sleep after registering and… Tap On Barcelona- Classes Begin!
There’s a blue, cloudless sky in Barcelona and while the locals in Gracia sip a morning wine or espresso and cigarette (seems strange now but people can still smoke inside in Spain), I slurp a… Tap On Barcelona 2010 kicks off
Summer has finally settled into Europe and here at Ruby TV we are enjoying it in Bordeaux for a week to warm up for the Tap On Barcelona festival that kicks off on July 24.… Summer Tapping
Hot on the heel taps of last week’s Paris Claquettes 2010 concert, thanks to Victor Cuno & co, another tap event is happening this Thursday in Paris, also under Cuno’s artistic direction. A meeting of music… Rubén Sánchez to shuffle Spanish beats into Paris tap event
Tuesday 29 Juin Café de la Dance In October 2000, I had just gotten off the plane in Paris and decided I needed to take a tap class. With the help of a friendly local… Victor Cuno’s Paris Claquettes 2010 Spectacle
The Cabaret des Filles de Joie de Juliette Dragon at the Bellevilloise with Merci Madame and special guests Rachel Gardner Smith, Marion Sandner and Jazmin Baret. Le Cabaret des Filles de Joie perform in France… Le Cabaret des Filles de Joie with Merci Madame Clip
It’s the 7th anniversary revue of the Cabaret des Filles de Joie at the Bellevilloise this weekend and it’s going to be a hoot. Artistic director of the cabaret, Juliette Dragon tells Ruby TV why.… 7 Years Celebration Spectacle for Ms Dragon and her Filles de Joie
The Passion of Tap Music, Dance, Tap & Hip Hop L’Espace Kiron, Paris (tickets 20 euros) It started like a jazz concert with tap star soloist Omar Edwards, grew to an epic, melodramatic and full… The Passion of Omar
Ruby TV wings to Barcelona for the 2nd annual international Tap Dance meeting where the artform many still associte with the past is alive and flapping in so many styles beyond Fred and Ginger. The… Tap On Barcelona- classes and exchanges on tap and life
A few images from the rest of the fest. Meanwhile, I’m going through 5 hours of rushes for the webcast for you which will be up soon which will feature interviews with Basilio, Sebastian Weber,… Tap Interviews
Three classes a day are perfect. I start 1130 with Sebastian and impro is a nice warm up and works the ,mind as much as the body with exercises and explanations on pushing barriers and… Classes and street concerts
Outside the studio, interview festival director Basilio González about the second annual Tap On. He speaks about the what makes this festival unique, the pronounced Barcelona tap community and the future of tap.
Improvisation with German Sebastian Weber, body percussion with Brasilian Tais Balieiro and Camus Band Style with Spanish Luis Menandez. I wouldn’t normally take an impro class but in fact it’s really fantasic and Seb gives… Improvising body percussion Camus band style
After Paris, Barcelona is balmy. A midnight rendez vous with Franco, my freindly Italian host from last year and because i’m early I stroll (as much as one can with luggage) to floods of memories… Barcelona is Balmy
After taking her chorey and impro classes at Tap On Barcelona festival 2008, I was invited by tap dancing icon Roxane Butterfly to return to Geneva via Toulon and stay a few days at her… 48 hours with Roxane Butterfly
Mention tap dance and most people’s eyes glaze with images of black and white movie replays of Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, maybe there’s a flash of a Tap Dog in a flannelette or a Billie… Ruby TV at Tap On Barcelona