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Summary
Tap dancer Sarah Petronio discusses the terms "jazz tap" and "rhythm tap," and her preference for a "jazz mode" in dancing. She remembers her childhood in India, where she began dancing and developed a taste for jazz music in cosmopolitan Bombay. After immigrating to New York, she studied tap dancing with Henry Le Tang, but only began to find her own style after moving to Paris. She credits Jimmy Slyde with freeing her from the prevalent conception of tap dancing as set routines. She discusses improvisation in tap dancing, and the importance of collaboration and communication between dancers and musicians.
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Performer (note)
Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
Interviewee: Sarah Petronio.
Event (note)
Videotaped for the public access cable television program Dance on: With Billie Mahoney in Kansas City, Mo., on June 13, 1994 ; produced through the facilities of American Cablevision of Kansas City, Inc.
Funding (note)
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.
Title
Dance on: Sarah Petronio [electronic resource] / produced by Billie Mahoney in association with Dance Films Association ; directed by Ann Kelly.
Imprint
c1994.
Country of producing entity
U.S.
Series
Dance on: With Billie Mahoney.
Event
Videotaped for the public access cable television program Dance on: With Billie Mahoney in Kansas City, Mo., on June 13, 1994 ; produced through the facilities of American Cablevision of Kansas City, Inc.
Performer
Interviewer: Billie Mahoney.
Interviewee: Sarah Petronio.
Restricted access
Patrons can access streaming video file only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Funding
Preservation of this video was supported by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.