{"id":37,"date":"2019-04-15T19:47:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T19:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edblogs.pugetsound.edu\/sp19afam101a\/?p=37"},"modified":"2019-05-13T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T16:53:12","slug":"northwest-tap-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/africanamericanstudies\/2019\/04\/15\/northwest-tap-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Northwest Tap Connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">African American Studies 101\u00a0 Group Profile Project<br \/>\nby: Liv, Albert, Ingrid, Ryan, Sami<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>What is\u00a0Northwest Tap Connection?<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Northwest Tap Connection is a social justice oriented dance studio located in Seattle, Washington that specializes in rhythm tap. The studio&#8217;s philosophy is that dance enriches the lives of the students, while developing self-discipline, instilling self-confidence, and encouraging achievement and goal setting. The organization provides an environment where dancers can grow artistically and technically, while simultaneously developing leadership skills and social responsibility. The primary mission of Northwest Tap Connection is to provide dance and job opportunities to under-served communities, and to raise a generation of socially conscious artists who produce work that fosters change. Their goal is to bring the art of dance to multi-cultural and inter-generational audiences through dance instruction, cultural events, and arts education programs locally, nationally and internationally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"HELL YOU TALMBOUT\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/17KyuCd8nl0?start=146&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Founder and Artistic Director &#8211; Melba Ayco<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The founder and the Artistic Director of Northwest Tap Connection is Melba Ayco, fondly known as Ms. Melba. She is a tap dance historian, choreographer, and storyteller. Ms. Melba was born into segregation in a small town near New Orleans, and she survived integration by pursuing enlightenment through cultural diversity. Ms. Melba\u2019s goal in founding the Northwest Tap Connection is to define and share the African American experience through the performing arts.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0She has received numerous accolades including the 2009 Mayor\u2019s Art Award, the 2017 African Town Queen Award, and the 2017 Martin Luther King, Jr. Medal of Community Service Award for District No. 2 of the City of Seattle.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/kuow-prod.imgix.net\/store\/fad343d6f2d0bc14fe5981bf96525550.jpg?ixlib=rails-2.1.4&amp;auto=format&amp;crop=faces&amp;fit=crop&amp;h=226&amp;w=340\" alt=\"Image result for melba ayco\" width=\"376\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not only is Ms. Melba the founder of Northwest Tap Connection, but she is also a 31 year veteran of the Seattle Police Department. A part of why she founded the dance studio was to give the underprivileged youth in the area an alternative to being on the streets. And she was successful in doing so &#8211; if students were involved in the dance studio, they didn\u2019t come across her desk at the SPD. Through her endless dedication to the community and desire to offer opportunities for growth and enlightenment to people of all ages and backgrounds, Ms. Melba has made a lasting, positive imprint in the Pacific Northwest.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Goals and Objectives of Northwest Tap Connection<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Northwest Tap Connection aims to \u201cclose the gap\u201d for people of color in the dance community. In this context, closing the gap means making classes that are affordable and accessible to all. In the dance world, beginning levels of dance are easier to access because they require minimal hours. However, beyond this when dancers become more advanced and require more hours and practice at a competitive level, accessibility becomes more difficult. While families may be able to pay for a few hours of dance, once students start to require more hours, families are often not able to pay. This creates the gap. To target this disparity, the Northwest Tap Connection offers classes that get progressively cheaper with more hours. Additionally, if a dancer has siblings in the program, they are offered discounted classes. Beyond classes, the Northwest Tap Connection also offers its dancer&#8217;s enrichment programs that combine dancing with education and social justice, where they learn professional and leadership skills. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To fund these classes, the Northwest Tap Connection holds events to raise money. The main event is a yearly auction, for which people purchase tickets to attend and engage in both a live and silent bid for different products and experiences. All the money raised at the event goes directly back to funding children\u2019s dance classes and improving the Northwest Tap Connection. The main goal of the Northwest Tap Connection is to \u201cclose the gap,\u201d and events like the auction allow for the funding of dance classes in order to do this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/southseattleemerald.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/12\/nw-tap-emerald-11-1.jpg?w=1038&amp;h=576&amp;crop=1\" width=\"590\" height=\"327\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>Membership and Achievements<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The members of the Northwest Tap Connection are the dancers enrolled in classes. The organization serves over 150 students on a weekly basis. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They&#8217;ve had the opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., Paramount and Moore Theaters in Seattle, and the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Chicago. In addition, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">dancers have had the opportunity to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">travel to where they may not have had the opportunity to do so before. Northwest Tap Connection dancers have been able to travel within the United States to places like Los Angeles, Louisiana, Chicago, New York, and Washington D.C and also abroad to Germany and Austria. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cipher Goings, 18, is one of the members of the Northwest Tap Connection and has been dancing with them since the age of 7. He was named a National Young Arts Foundation Dance Finalist of 2019, a competition between young artists in different realms across the U.S. This is an example of the achievements that the Northwest Tap Connection facilitates for their dancers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/f1.media.brightcove.com\/8\/1509317113\/1509317113_4751338794001_20150211-schultz-tap-still-720.jpg?pubId=1509317113&amp;videoId=4751323727001\" width=\"518\" height=\"291\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><b>NWT&#8217;s Significance to Communities of Color\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In order to understand the importance of the work that NW Tap Connection and Ms. Melba have, we must look at the history of tap, and how it is intrinsically tied to the African American community.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Historically, many African tribes utilized drums not only as a means of creating music and facilitating important events, but also as a form of communication; they were often the primary source of correspondence between neighboring tribes, and could transmit messages across immense distances. When slaveholders discovered this, the use of drums by slaves was banned in the U.S. South. African music is closely integrated with dance, and without drums to create the rhythm, slaves used other forms of percussion to accompany their dancing &#8211; their hands, feet, and thighs all became instruments. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap is often thought to be a fusion of several percussive dances with roots in many different countries: African tribal dances, Spanish flamenco, English clog dancing, and Irish jigs. Tap gained popularity after the civil war as part of traveling minstrel shows, where performers (both white and black) wore blackface and played into negative racial stereotypes about African Americans; that they were dumb, lazy, and a great source of entertainment. Early tap shoes had wooden soles, which sometimes had pennies attached to the heel and toe to create the signature brassy sound that identifies tap. As jazz and Ragtime become more popular throughout the late 1800&#8217;s, tap absorbed many of the rhythms of these new music styles and popularized syncopated step. This is nowhere more apparent than in the 1898 musical, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clorindy, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">written by Will Marion Cook and Paul Laurence Dunbar,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">which became the first Broadway musical to employ an all-black cast. However, within other popular forms of entertainment such as Vaudeville, black people were only allowed to perform under certain conditions, including the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201ctwo-colored rule\u201d which forbade black people from performing solo, ensuring that the majority of Black tap dancers danced in pairs, preventing them from achieving the kind of stardom that solo white tappers could. Even so, some of the most famous tap dancers, the ones who revolutionized tap, are Black people.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the tap dancing greats are described below.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>William Henry Lane<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1825-1852) &#8211; also known as \u201cMaster Juba\u201d &#8211; was possibly the only African American man to perform in minstrel shows before 1858, and the only one of the era to perform with a white minstrel group. Charles Dickens saw him perform in 1842, and described his dancing as \u201cresembling the noises of the fingers on a tambourine\u201d &#8211; one of the earliest records of tap dance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Bill \u201cBojangles\u201d Robinson<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (1877-1949) started his craft in his minstrel shows and vaudeville, and was one of the first black men to go solo, as well as the most highly paid African American entertainer in the early 20th century. He went on to star in many Hollywood films, most famously in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Little Colonel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where he danced with Shirley Temple &#8211; the first interracial couple to dance on screen. World Tap Dance Day (May 25), which was signed into law in 1989, was chosen to honor his birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Little Colonel Bojangles Dance\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wtHvetGnOdM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Famous stair dance from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Little Colonel<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Eleanor Powell as Bill Robinson in Honolulu 1939\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sAsEvbD1384?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eleanor Powell as Bill Robinson in Honolulu 1939 &#8211; he taught her the routine, and it is meant to pay \u201crespectful tribute\u201d to his work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>John \u201cBubbles\u201d Sublett <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1902-1986), often considered the father of rhythm tap, performed in the Vaudeville duo \u201cBuck and Bubbles,\u201d made up of himself and pianist Ford \u201cBuck\u201d Washington. They popularized the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">polished tuxedo and cane look of tap. They were the first black artists to perform at Radio City Music Hall, and the first black artists in a television program. Sublett gave tap lessons to Fred Astaire in 1920; Astaire considered him to be one of the best tap dancers of his time and paid homage to him and Bill Robinson in a number from Swing Time; unfortunately, it was in blackface.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Astaire Fred Bojangles of Harlem from Swing Time 1936\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xm1jiv3zYw0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fred Astaire, Bojangles of Harlem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Buck and Bubbles Varsity Show - 1937\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCpKx64EivE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Buck &amp; Bubbles &#8211; Varsity Show (1937)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although some of the most famous tap dancers throughout history have been black, it is still an inaccessible dance form &#8211; in the same way as ballet &#8211; due to racial biases of what dancers should look like and rising costs of lessons and equipment. Northwest Tap Connection gives black people the ability to participate in a form of dance that has been historically used to disparage them; \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as a result of tap dance\u2019s affiliation with minstrelsy and thus its ties to caricatures of blackness, tap dance on its own has come to signify not only \u201cblackness\u201d but a national identity that creates space for the white body through the exclusion of the black\u201d (Shiovitz 11). They seek to close that gap and to allow African Americans to learn a form of dance that is deeply rooted in their heritage, and to bring dance to a community that is often under served and underrepresented in the arts.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How Does Northwest Tap Connection Relate to the Course?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Self-Organization <\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because of institutionalized racism, the American system has largely failed over the years to provide equal opportunities to African Americans. In result, the Black community, and other marginalized groups, have needed to provide opportunities for themselves through self-organization. One way that these communities have provided opportunities is through local organizations that focus on providing services to marginalized individuals in the area. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The programs offered By Northwest Tap Connection continue the long history of self-organized sports and recreation by the African American community. \u00a0Before the organized play movement of the early 1900\u2019s brought playgrounds and recreation centers to African American communities, community sports and recreation were self run and organized. This self-organization sparked creativity, expression and above all else a sense of unity among the African American community. While the organized play movement brought new facilities to the African American community these often failed to meet the needs of the community. As a result the 1920&#8217;s through the 1940&#8217;s were highlighted by the efforts of independent Black social clubs organizing \u00a0competitions and other recreational opportunities. The impetus for much of this self organized competition was the Jim-Crow segregation that dominated organized sports and even dance. The self-organization of the Black Community has often been sparked by systematic inequalities, and a need to provide to the community what the system cannot. This phenomenon is demonstrated by the Free-Breakfast programs instituted by the Black Panther Party. This program provided breakfast for schoolchildren who would otherwise be unable to afford and eat breakfast, similarly Northwest Tap Connection provides arts programs for students who would otherwise not have this access.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While dance is often thought of as an apolitical art form, Black artists have in fact used dance throughout history as a form of protest. Pearl Primus was one of the mainstays of Black concert dance in the 1940&#8217;s, she used her background in dance and anthropology to construct \u201cprotest dances\u201d which called for racial equality and an end to racial terrorism. One of the most notable of such performances was \u201cStrange Fruit,\u201d featuring poetry of Lewis Allan, which condemned lynching. Northwest Tap Connection has continued this tradition, following the shootings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, dancers from the studio were filmed dancing in the streets among unrest and protest. This sparked the interest of directors, Joseph Webb, Denzel Boyd, and Tyler Rabinowitz who have partnered with Northwest Tap Connection to produce the short film \u201cHell You Talmbout.\u201d The film is a protest to the modern day lynchings by police shootings of African Americans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/intentionalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/NTC-1024x685.jpg\" width=\"479\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><b>Inequality and Underfunded Schools<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Due to economic inequality, schools with more students of color are under-funded. For instance, the top 10% of school districts \u201cspend nearly 10 times more than the poorest 10 percent\u201d (p. 31, Allen). Students in the poorest districts receive $1,000 less on average when compared to wealthier districts. With a lack of funding more diverse schools are then forced to\u00a0remove funding from arts programs and focus on courses that teach directly to Common Core Standards. One can see this lack of funding specifically in dance. In the school year of 1999 to 2000 20% of schools funded dance programs, but in the school year of 2009 to 2010 only 3% of schools funded dance. Dance has essentially been removed from public education. The removal of such programs has a dramatic effect on college admission. One study found that students who took four years of art classes scored on average 91 points higher on SAT tests. The removal of arts programs then has a disproportionate effect on African Americans because their schools are the ones most underfunded and, therefore face the largest cuts to the arts. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School districts serving majority African-American or Hispanic students are twice as likely to lack art programs as school districts serving predominantly white students.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/edblogs.pugetsound.edu\/sp19afam101a\/files\/2019\/03\/graph.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1034\" height=\"756\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Programs like Northwest Tap Connection are then a major, and often overlooked, option to combat educational and future economic inequality. Northwest Tap Connection is able to provide an opportunity that can help to lower educational inequality by supplementing an education in the arts that was lost in many public schools. Ultimately, by evening the educational playing field there is a greater potential for educated African Americans to transcend the institutionally racist barriers put before them. Just as Cipher Goings proves, Northwest Tap Connection moves beyond just a center for dance by helping students get an education in the arts, an important factor to overcoming educational inequality.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to 2008 data<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, African-American and Hispanic students were two times less likely to have access to art programs in their school districts in comparison to their white peers.<\/span><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shorelinearts.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/AAOdyssey.jpg\" width=\"579\" height=\"370\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Works Cited<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Allen, Donald W.R II, &#8220;What are the ways K-12 public school systems and teacher <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">training programs contribute to the exploitation of black educators; what political, cultural and economic ends does this serve? How does the current treatment and deployment of black educators hamper rather than further black educational progress?&#8221; (2018). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">School of Education Student Capstone Projects<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. 186. https:\/\/digitalcommons.hamline.edu\/hse_cp\/186<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dance Studio | United States | Northwest Tap Connection. (n.d.). Retrieved from https:\/\/www.nwtapconnection.org\/<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gates, H. L. (2009). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Harlem Renaissance: Lives from the African American National Biography<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. New <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">York: Oxford University Press.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hill, C. V. (2009). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, New York; Oxford: Oxford University <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Press. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rees, G. (2011). Tap Dance. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encyclopedia of African American Popular Culture<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (pp. 1367\u20131370).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seibert, B. (2015). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. pp. 445\u20136.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shiovitz, B. W. (2016). <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Masks in Disguise: Exposing Minstrelsy and Racial Representation within <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American Tap Dance Performances of the Stage, Screen, and Sound Cartoon, 1900-1950<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UCLA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Retrieved from <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/1023p0b6\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/escholarship.org\/uc\/item\/1023p0b6<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African American Studies 101\u00a0 Group Profile Project by: Liv, Albert, Ingrid, Ryan, Sami What is\u00a0Northwest Tap Connection? Northwest Tap Connection is a social justice oriented dance studio located in Seattle, Washington that specializes in rhythm tap. 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