Atelier Course Combines Tap Dancing, Video and Sound in Live Performance

An instructors talks to students who are lined up prior to a performance

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A music stand has a sheet of paper on it in front of doors that open into a room with sets of tap shoes on a dance floor in a studio

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A group of students dance in a gallery space

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A series a three slides showing the same dancer tapping in a gallery

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A tap dancer jumps in the air with toes pointing down

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A series of tap shoes on an empty floor in a studio with monitors behind them

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Students in the spring Princeton Atelier course, “Tap Dance Experiments in Video and Sound/Rhythm: SOIL, SAND BONE” worked with Princeton Arts Fellow Michael J. Love and his collaborators, film-based artist Ariel René Jackson and rhythmanalyst DeForrest Brown, Jr., to develop a new multi-channel video and live performance installation presented on April 18 in the Lewis Arts complex CoLab. The end of semester class showing featured video by Jackson, live performance by the students (choreographed and directed by Love), and an electronic music-based composition by Brown. Throughout the semester, the students engaged with curated readings and media, lectures by Love, Jackson, and Brown, and weekly technique classes and choreography rehearsals.