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Giving Happiness a New Name Through Tap Dance | The Lantern

October 7, 2020

Giving Happiness a New Name Through Tap Dance | The Lantern

Tappyness performance

Hybrid Arts Lab: Tappyness was recently featured in The Lantern

From Mikey Taylor for The Lantern: 

"The performance tells the story of one woman’s hardship and battle with mental health in everyday life while trying to 'stay in time,' according to the Urban Arts Space website. It incorporates tap dance and uses props that would be recognized in an ordinary routine.             

'I think tap has really clear rhythms and it’s easy to see when someone does a step in time,' Greenberg said in an email. 'The anxieties of falling out of time and wanting to get back in are correlated to mental health when we ‘fall off our horse’ and sometimes struggle to get back in our own rhythms.'"

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