The Science of Dance, The Art of Rhythm: How Tapology Is Rewriting Literacy in Flint
How Tapology, a Flint institution, is putting tap shoes to work in the fight for our children’s reading futures. Walk into a classroom at Brownell or Potter Elementary this year and you might hear something you would not expect in a reading lesson. A steady beat. Feet finding the rhythm of a word. Syllables landing […]
A Letter from Frances: Our Film Is Here
A Letter from Frances: Our Film Is Here Friend of Tapology, The trailer for our documentary, Matters of the He(A)rt, is out now. It opens where every dancer begins, with rhythm, drawing a line from the beat of the human heart to the turning of the universe, and showing tap dance as the visual language […]
Where Rhythm Meets the Classroom: Tapology’s Visiting Schools Days Brings Broadway to Flint’s Youth
For more than two decades, something extraordinary has happened every year in the Flint Cultural District. Hundreds of students, many of whom have never experienced live performance art, flood into the Flint Public Library and Flint Institute of Arts. By the time they leave, they have discovered something about themselves they did not know before: […]
When the Beat Goes On: Bruce Bradley’s Journey and the Heart of Tapology
There’s a science to rhythm that tap dancers understand better than most. Every beat requires precision. Every sequence demands discipline. And every performance is built on a foundation of breath, pulse, and timing—, all controlled by the heart. Last year, that heart nearly stopped. Alfred Bruce Bradley—, the visionary who brought Broadway to Flint, the […]