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Rhythm Tap Tales – Chapter 1: Remembering bebop hoofer Will Gaines

Poster: Annette Walker's Rhythm Tap Tales - Chapter 1: Remembering bebop hoofer Will Gaines

Annette’s new solo tap show debuts at the Albany on 6 July 2023! Free-flowing storytelling about Will Gaines with improvised tap dancing by Annette accompanied by Alex Ho on piano, followed by a tap jam with live music by The Rhythmaticians.

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Tap Talk at Wandsworth Arts Fringe Tap Dance Days

Petra Haller - Wandsworth Fringe Tap Dance Days (Day Seven): Total Immersion Day, 25 June 2023

Annette presents a talk about the history of tap dance with footage. This is the final day of a programme of Tap Dance Day events curated by Petra Haller from 19 to 25 June.

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TDRN UK Research Festival 2023

TDRN UK Research Festival 2023

2nd TDRN UK Research Festival: There will be a programme of online events on Wed 21 & Thu 22 June 2023 as well as an in-person event on Sat 24 June 2023 at Dancehouse in Manchester, UK

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‘Ellington & Tippett’: Jazz meets Sacred

Concert rehearsal view at St Michael's and All Angels Church in Brighton, UK

An evening of jazz-inspired sacred music by Duke Ellington and Michael Tippett, including instrumental standards performed by Phoenix Big Band.

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Subscribe to TAP NEWS

Annette Walker TAP NEWS

Launching Annette Walker TAP NEWS, a brand new e-newsletter for updates on my tap classes, workshops, shows, talks and more!

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LDIF23 Dance Inside the Music – World Premier

Soweto Kinch, Lee Payne and Annette Walker - Serendipity Institute for Black Arts and Heritage

Catch Annette Walker holding her own on stage with Soweto Kinch, Lee Payne, Freddy Houndekindo and Cameron McKinney for the world premiere of Dance Inside the Music at launch of the Let’s Dance International Frontiers 2023 on 29 April 2023.

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Rhythm Tap Workshop Monthly

Pineapple Rhythm Tap Workshop April-July 2023

The Rhythm Tap Monthly Workshop is a series brought to you by the Annette Walker Tap Dance Programme, for learning tap dance through a foundation of jazz and rhythm with an understanding and appreciation of its historical context and lineage.

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Vivace Chorus Duke Ellington – Sacred Concert

Annette Walker tap dances with Vivace Chorus, at G-Live, Guildford

Concert on 18 March 2023: Duke Ellington’s wonderful sacred music the All Stars Jazz Band, soprano Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and tap dancer Annette Walker, all conducted by Jeremy Backhouse.

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Annette Walker and the Rhythmaticians

Photo by Chris Horn

Accompanied by her wonderful band, the Rhythmaticians, Annette Walker brings the exciting improvisational atmosphere to the concert stage

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Goldsmiths Performance Research Forum: Restoring the story of Buddy Bradley

and his contribution to British dance practice Presenting my PhD research about the previously popular but now unacknowledged Black choreographer, Buddy Bradley, at Goldsmiths Performance Research Forum Wednesday 2 November 2022 6.45pm George Wood Theatre, Goldsmiths, University of London, New

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