In a promotional video Bloch dancewear, Jason Samuels kicks out some nice jams. Check out the video on the Bloch World site here (requires free registration) or watch a shorter version on YouTube.

Savion Glover, the world's best tap dancer, will appear on Dancing With The Stars on Wednesday, September 26. Joining him on the show will be Maurice Chestnut, Marshall Davis, Ashley DeForest, Rhonda Jordan and Shaina Mitchell. We thank Savion for all he has done to promote the art form.

Tap pro Acia Gray has received an NEA grant to take her tap company on tour. The show will be called Souls Of Our Feet II and will feature reconstructed works by Arthur Duncan, Jeni LeGon, Harold Cromer, Brenda Bufalino, and others. Check out the video sample below. Click the Read more link to see the tour schedule.

Savion Glover is interviewed on Plum TV before his performance at the Vail International Dance Festival. He waxes philosophical, and, of course, jams (go to time index 8:23).

Maurice Hines, older brother of Gregory, has "dusted off" his tap shoes and will star in the 25th anniversary production of Sheldon Epps' "Blues In The Night," according to this article. The show reunites Hines with singer Freda Payne and features songs by Duke Ellington, Johnny Mercer, and others. The show runs August 15th through September 30th at San Francisco's Post Street Theatre.

From 1998 to 2006, a tap bulletin (in Portuguese) was sent to more than 1500 tap dancers in Brazil (in almost 200 cities) and Brazilians all over the world. After more than 500 tap-emails sent, a blog was created in June 2006. The blog talks about tap events in Brazil, tap news, and even notes about other dances. The blog of Divulgando o Sapateado Por Aí (something like "Spreading Tap Dance Everywhere") is at: divulgandotap.blogspot.com. More than 1200 posts were published in one year. Tradicional Divulgando's web site is at: www.geocities.com/divulgando. We invite everyone to visit us, even if you don't understand Portuguese. Our Brazilian best wishes.
Divulgando o Sapateado Por Aí
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

New York City, the epicenter of the tap dance world, is in crisis. On one hand, the tap dance community is stronger than ever. But there is a problem. "We need our own stage," says tap pro Brenda Bufalino. The lack of a dedicated tap performance space is driving dancers out of the city, according to Bufalino. Read the New York Times article.

Savion catches one critic's eye at his four-day Live For London show where he taps for 45 minutes straight and "still has enough breath to sing a number," according to this review.