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Brenda Bufalino Brenda Bufalino is an artist of the tap dance world. In a career spanning several decades, she has worked with many influential artists. Bufalino founded the American Tap Dance Foundation. External links
- Brenda Bufalino's Official Site
- Biography on TapDance.Org
uses the term fusion to describe musical/cultural mixes in tap. These include Max Pollak, who combines tap with Afro-Cuban rhythms and body percussion Body Percussion is the art of creating percussive sounds using body movements and body parts exclusively. As an artform, it is very old. Probably the first expressions of music and dance were created on the body. , and Tamango, blending tap with capoeira cap·o·ei·ra
n.
An Afro-Brazilian dance form that incorporates self-defense maneuvers.
[Portuguese, from earlier *capon, capon, from Vulgar Latin and rhythms from South America.
Tapage's Olivia Rosenkrantz and Mari Fujibayashi blend tap with their European and Asian sensibilities along with traditions from Japan, France, North India, Haiti, and the U.S.
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