Shakespeare's Sonnets on Tap
| Open: 08/23/07 Close: 08/25/07
Capping off the 2007 summer Shakespeare season, Novisi Productions is melding the vibrant language and musicality of Shakespeare's sonnets with the infinite rhythms of tap dance for three nights only in New York. It has often been said that the writer William Shakespeare was like a great jazz musician. By taking the poetic form of iambic pentameter and constructing poems of delicate and sometimes brutal language he created works of tremendous beauty that expressed a myriad of ideas and emotions. For its momentous production of SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS ON TAP Novisi Productions has invited tap dancers and actors to collaborate on an exploration of Shakespeare's sonnets. Dancers and actors have been paired and assigned a sonnet and each pair has created an extraordinary piece using tap and text.
FEATURING THE TAP DANCE AND ACTING TALENTS OF Varín Ayala, Francois
Battiste*, Stephen Bel Davies*, Robert Michael Bray*, Ayodele Casel, Dewitt Fleming, Frank
Harts*, Ray Hesselink*, Di Johnston, Stephanie Larričre, Amanda McCroskery*, Christina
Moore, Parallel Exit (Derek Roland and Ryan Kasprzak*), Max Pollak, Claudia
Rahardjanoto, David Rider, Dolores Sanchez, Kristyn Smith*, David Sochet* and many more!
Lighting Design by Seth Reiser