If Chicago, St. Louis and Rio de Janeiro all have annual festivals celebrating tap dancing, shouldn’t New York City? That’s the question Tony Waag asked in 2001, before he founded the New York City Tap Festival, or Tap City. Tap City has been an incubator of talent, crucial to the early careers of now-prominent artists like Michelle Dorrance, Chloe Arnold and Caleb Teicher. And it has maintained a footprint for the art in a town central enough to its history to warrant the title of Tap City. Is Tap City dead?

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Persons: Louis, shouldn’t, Tony Waag, Michelle Dorrance, Chloe Arnold, Caleb Teicher, Joyce, ” Waag Organizations: New York, Tap, Center, Dance, Village, Dance Foundation Locations: Chicago, St, Rio de Janeiro, York City, Tap, New York, Tap City, —