Tap Dance Lectures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
with Margaret Morrison
Sponsored by Dance@MIT, SLIPPAGE, & MIT Department of Women’s and
Gender Studies
free and open to the public
Monday, March 14, 2011
at MIT
Building 4 Room 149
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
for more info: 617-253-6957
2:00-3:30
Artist Talk “Body of Rhythm: 30 years in rhythm tap”
Margaret Morrison shares video and tap dance stories from her career.
3:30-5:00
“She Stayed With the Sisters: Tap Dance Narratives and Invisibilized
Women”
Margaret Morrison presents new research on Alice Whitman, the “Queen
of Tap”, Juanita Pitts, “Tops in Tap”, and other African American
women tap dancers of the 1920s to 1950s.
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