The Bang Group and Guests---Tap for Today

The Bang Group, whose Nut/Cracked, an uproarious and loving version of The Nutcracker has become a Dance Hall tradition since 2016, brings a program of innovative, fabulous tap dances for the 21st century showing new sides to this venerable art form that are very much contemporary.   Featuring artists from New York City and New England the concert includes Xana DuMe the delovely drag tap artist also known as Felipe Galganni from Brazil and now based in NYC, Alexis Robbins a young tap innovator living and working in New Haven, The Bang Group, which brings David Parker's hilarious and ingenious Velcro/tap duet for two men in Plaid Velcro suits who hoof and stick to each other gleefully and our own Drika Overton, beloved Founding Director of The Dance Hall whose soulful piece Afro Blue will be danced by The Bang Group.  The program includes The Bang Group's dizzying Settling Scores and 12x4 two works which conjure scores by Morton Feldman and Steve Reich in adventurous and satisfying ways.  You've never seen tap like this before: equal parts music, dance and ingenuity.

Featured Performers:

The Bang Group (NYC)

Alexis Robbins (New Haven, CT)

Felipe Galganni (Brazil/NYC)

*Featuring choreography by Drika Overton

$20 advance | $25 day-of | $10 Student

*fees not included ($2 facility fee per ticket + cc processing fees)

The Bang Group and Guests---Tap for Today

The Bang Group, whose Nut/Cracked, an uproarious and loving version of The Nutcracker has become a Dance Hall tradition since 2016, brings a program of innovative, fabulous tap dances for the 21st century showing new sides to this venerable art form that are very much contemporary.   Featuring artists from New York City and New England the concert includes Xana DuMe the delovely drag tap artist also known as Felipe Galganni from Brazil and now based in NYC, Alexis Robbins a young tap innovator living and working in New Haven, The Bang Group, which brings David Parker's hilarious and ingenious Velcro/tap duet for two men in Plaid Velcro suits who hoof and stick to each other gleefully and our own Drika Overton, beloved Founding Director of The Dance Hall whose soulful piece Afro Blue will be danced by The Bang Group.  The program includes The Bang Group's dizzying Settling Scores and 12x4 two works which conjure scores by Morton Feldman and Steve Reich in adventurous and satisfying ways.  You've never seen tap like this before: equal parts music, dance and ingenuity.

Featured Performers:

The Bang Group (NYC)

Alexis Robbins (New Haven, CT)

Felipe Galganni (Brazil/NYC)

*Featuring choreography by Drika Overton

$20 advance | $25 day-of | $10 Student

*fees not included ($2 facility fee per ticket + cc processing fees)

Nic Gareiss & Simon Chrisman

Nic Gareiss (percussive dance, bouzouki, vocals) and Simon Chrisman (hammer dulcimer) met in 2007 at a fiddle festival in the Californian redwoods and have been exploring sound and movement together ever since. Both innovators on their instruments, Nic and Simon bring their unique approaches together for traditional song, percussive dance, instrumental tunes, improvisation and new compositions, engaging interlocking rhythms and dynamic textures. Well-known for his work with the groundbreaking new acoustic string band The Bee Eaters, Simon's music combines "chamber music’s finely calibrated arrangements with bluegrass’s playful virtuosity and pop music’s melodic resourcefulness." (Boston Herald)

Noted for his "dexterous melding of Irish and Appalachian dance" (New York Times) and described as "the most inventive and expressive step dancer on the scene" (Boston Herald), Nic has performed with many of the luminaries of contemporary traditional music and dance, including The Chieftains, The Gloaming, Phil Wiggins, Liz Carroll, Bruce Molsky, Bill Frisell, Alasdair Fraser and Natalie Haas. Together, Nic and Simon adventure into the world of time and timbre to create a breathtaking evening-length performance of song, instrumental music, and percussive dance. 

Links:

www.facebook.com/simonchrismanandnicgareiss

@NicGareissLFI www.nicgareiss.com

$15 advance | $20 day-of

*all tickets are subject to a surcharge (both online + box office)