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2012 North Carolina Rhythm Tap Festival

2011 North Carolina Rhythm Tap Festival

Cancel other vacation plans, mark your calendars, and fly across the pond if you have to for the 14th Annual North Carolina Rhythm Tap festival!

The festival will be held June 8th - 10th, 2012 at The Ballet School of Chapel Hill and will include classes, discussions, a participant showcase, a tap jam, and our star-studded Saturday evening performance at the ArtsCenter in Carrboro. This year’s festival artists include Michelle Dorrance, Josh Hilberman, Nicholas Young, Derick Grant, Diane Walker, Yvette Glover and MORE!!

Particpant Showcase: The Participant Showcase is an excellent opportunity to get constructive critique on your choreography and techniques from some of the world’s top rhythm tap dancers. Critique will be given in a relaxed setting immediately following your piece. Only one dance per studio or organization. When you submit a request for the showcase, please state the length of the dance (ten minutes maximum).

Please visit our NCRTF website for hotel and registration information

NCYTE - You Know!

The North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble (NCYTE) presents performances featuring cutting edge contemporary choreography and traditional rhythm tap as it was danced in its prime. Imagine Stomp, Riverdance, vaudeville, Fred Astaire and Bring In Da Noise all on the same bill — that’s NCYTE!

The company has performed or collaborated with the Greensboro Symphony, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Mallarme Chamber Players, the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra and many jazz musicians around the nation and world. It has toured internationally in Beijing, Stuttgart, Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Berlin, Heidelberg and Helsinki and regularly appears at the two largest tap festivals in the United States, the New York City Tap Festival (Tap City) and Chicago Human Rhythm Project.

Book NCYTE today for your next event mailto: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 919-967-8655.

Congratulations Gene!

2010 JUBA! Award winners
Each year, CHRP honors esteemed members and supporters of the tap community with its annual JUBA! Awards. For its 20th anniversary season, CHRP’s board of directors has selected four awardees who have been important to the organization’s history as well as to the overall advancement of American tap as an art form: Gene Medler, founder and director of the highly acclaimed North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble; Sam Weber, internationally respected performer, master teacher and choreographer; Dianne “Lady Di” Walker, the “Ella Fitzgerald” of tap and a pioneer in the art form’s resurgence; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (MCA), which has contributed to the field through its longtime presentation and sponsorship of tap performance and education programs.