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When faced with choosing under 3 minutes from the 50' video/live dance/multimedia work, I went with a short visual of the 3 widows and mostly dance. There was so much history in the piece, we were inspired to use many of the dance styles from the historic clips woven in the mostly modern dance shown here. The choreography for the tap section is by Alfred Desio. Creator/director is Louise Reichlin.

Tap Dance Widows Club, is a work by Louise Reichlin & Dancers, and it brings together multiple dance forms in a unique multimedia piece using the power of Dance; it brings an inside story from 30's Hollywood to now. Louise Reichlin (widow of Alfred Desio), Loretta Zerby (widow of Jon Zerby), and Katherine Hopkins-Nicholas (widow of Fayard Nicholas) met to share memories, photos, and videos of their well-known husbands. Their conversations about moving forward without their husbands' physical presence are both hilarious and moving; this became the audio for this transformative work.

Dancers: Zsolt Banki, Jen Hunter, Brittany Midiri, Steven Nielsen, Sarah Nordquist, Angelina Prendergast, Anne-Marie Talmadge, Angela Todaro, and Guest Dancer: Msaada Nia. Audri Phillips created the visual art.

After grieving for the loss of a loved one, we accept the richness that person has brought to our lives. "Baggage" the suite, includes live dance combined with user and artist-generated multimedia that explores our changing perception of death, and the positive baggage we carry with us when a loved one is no longer corporal but still present.

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Entertainment

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• Tap
• Dance
• Widows
• Club
• Louise
• Reichlin
• modern
• dance
• ballet
• tap
• film
• theatre
• broadway