School Performance: Dorrance Dance (KCYS)

This performance is part of the Krannert Center Youth Series, school-day performances for public, private, and home schools, grades PreK-12.

Michelle Dorrance (MacArthur Fellow, Bessie Award winner, and Doris Duke Artist Award winner) is one of the most sought-after tap dancers of her generation and “one of the most imaginative tap choreographers working today” (The New Yorker). This highly interactive performance introduces students to the art of rhythm tap through an engaging mix of performance, conversation, and get-up-on-your-feet participation. Dorrance Dance aims to honor tap dance’s uniquely beautiful history in a new, dynamic, and compelling context. The company’s inaugural performance garnered a Bessie Award for “blasting open our notions of tap,” and the company continues its passionate commitment to expanding the audience of tap dance, an original American art form.

Connects to Illinois Learning Standards in Fine Arts, Social/Emotional Learning, and Science.

Recommended for grades 4 and up

Performance length: 70 minutes