Germaine Goodson

Hi Everybody! Below please find information on my upcoming workshop, ongoing classes and a new book!

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Starting May 3, 2011
Tuesdays 6:30-7:45pm

Come join Germaine Goodson, former Broadway performer and veteran tap teacher, for Tappin' Tuesdays at the Alvin Ailey Extension School. Discover the fun of tap dance technique, weight changes, and basic tap combinations using different types of music. Learn to create rhythms with and without music, use steps learned traveling across the floor, develop strength and technique using the barre and learn a warm-up tap combination that is used in the Beginning Saturday tap classes. It will be FUN!!!

Germaine Goodson, Master Tap Teacher Germaine is proud and happy to be part of and mentioned in "Tap Dancing America" a cultural history. New book about TAP DANCE!! Enjoy!!

The Book Bench: Ask an Academic: Tap Dancing America : The New Yorker

In 2005, Constance Valis Hill had a dream. In it, the late, great Gregory Hines was dancing, and Hill, ever the academic, was frantically trying to write down all his steps on paper. He urged her not to. “Don’t write, just look at the steps—remember,” Hines said, before tossing her a book in which all of his moves had been documented. To Hill, the dream symbolized the importance of chronicling tap-dance history; five years later, she’s done just that. Her new book, “Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History,” charts the “three-hundred-year musical and social exchange” that created this distinctly American art form.

I am excited to continue my own private classes at Ripley-Grier studios on Saturday's and Monday's. Ripley-Grier has given me continual bookings on a permanent basis and have increased the fees for renting their spaces. Unfortunately, I will also have to increase my fees in order to pay for the increase. As always, I promise it will be worth it! Please remember: cash only and receipt upon request.

Ripley-Grier Studios
520 8th Avenue – 16th floor (between 36th and 37th Street)
New York, NY 10018
(212) 799-5433
www.ripleygrier.com

Class fees:
$20 (single - 1 hour)
$23 (single - 1½ hours)
$160 (8 class card)
*Cash only, receipt upon request