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.
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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.
