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Tap Dance, Its History and Connection to Race: an Interview with Lisa LaTouche
Lisa LaTouche is a Broadway tap dancer who moved back home to Canada during the pandemic. I interviewed her as she was about to premier a new tap work for Fall for Dance North. We discussed learning tap, tap’s history, and so much more more. Read about Lisa LaTouche and tap.
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Between Worlds: An Example of Creative Writing
Creative writing helps me keep my copywriting focused on storytelling. (And copywriting helps me keep my creative writing succinct.) I write novels to keep me on my creative path and practice storytelling to its fullest. This series of novels takes place in real locations, and half of each novel is historical fiction, which requires a…
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What Is Flamenco Dance? Myriam Allard Answers
This blog post comes from the blog I write under Lori Wolf-Heffner, the name I use for my fiction writing. On that blog, I occasionally interview artists from different disciplines, including the performing arts. In this blog post, the interview is with Myriam Allard, a Flamenco dancer from Montreal.
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Grace Butler in the Spotlight
(This article was published in just dance! magazine, in the summer 2015 issue.) “Come rain, come shine, come snow, come sleet, the show must go on.” Most dancers know that phrase, and many treat it as a personal creed. The dedication to their art drives them to be on stage, on time, no matter what.…
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i.am.me’s Phillip Chbeeb in the Spotlight
In this short blog post, I highlight hip-hop dancer and choreographer Phillip Chbeeb’s style and work. (Published September 2016.)
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Jeff Hyslop: The Man of a Thousand Dances
by Lori Straus (Appeared in just dance! magazine, Summer 2014 issue) Store mannequin for 125 episodes. Opera ghost for 985 performances. Judge for countless dance competitions. Producer, choreographer, director, singer, actor, and dancer for almost 50 years. Can one person truly accomplish this much, and as a dancer, no less? Jeff Hyslop can and has…