The North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble (NCYTE) is not your average youth dance ensemble; in fact it is not your average dance company at all. The company presents an incredibly unique performance, featuring cutting edge contemporary choreography and traditional rhythm tap as it was danced in its prime. Imagine Stomp, Riverdance, Vaudeville, Fred Astaire and Bring In Da Noise all on the same bill – that’s NCYTE! The style of percussive dances ranges from South African Gumboot, to sand dancing, to buck, to a salute to vaudeville, body percussion, jazz, and much more. The music ranges from Blind Boy Fuller to Brubeck to Mozart. This non-stop percussive dance review is a trip through time and into the future of this unique American art form.
The list of choreographers reads like a who’s who in the tap world including the legendary Savion Glover. The company has toured or collaborated with the Greensboro Symphony, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Mallarme Chamber Players (Mozart), the North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra and many jazz musicians around the nation and world. NCYTE has toured internationally in Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Berlin, Heidelberg and Helsinki and appears annually at the two largest tap festivals in the US, New York and Chicago.
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