Shim Sham
Hosted by Alexandria Bradley
featuring the Orrin Evans Trio
Curated by Rashida Bumbray
From a tap dance family, the accomplished dancer and jazz musician, Alexandria Bradley started her fifteen-year career at a young age and has shared the stage with generations of tap greats including Jimmy Slyde, Ted Levy and Savion Glover. Bradley hosts this season’s installment of the free open jam session in which some of the finest of New York City’s rhythm tap community come together to share and showcase their moves.
As a participant in shows and festivals around the world, Bradley’s fierce dedication to the tap community also includes her work as a youth instructor and mentor with a specific emphasis on encouraging social justice through art. In New York she has worked with Queen’s area youth and as an adjunct professor at Queens College and Long Island University. Now based in Philadelphia, she is perhaps best known for her performances in Savion Glover’s company Tii Dii, Roxane Butterfly’s World Beats, her own music project Triple Threat, and her dance company Sound n Movement, LLC.
The evening also features the live music of the Orrin Evans Trio and promises to make for a dynamic gathering of rhythmic exchange. The jam is open to tap dancers of all levels and concludes with the famous Shim Sham Shimmy, the hoofers’ international anthem. So come enjoy the show or bring your shoes and join the jam!
This program is made possible by a generous donation of tap floor instruments from The American Tap Dance Foundation. Dance programs at The Kitchen are made possible with generous support from The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the Jerome Robbins Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Photo: Alan Jackman
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