Saturday Ticket Information:
  $30.00 Priority seating
  $25.00 Adults
  $20.00 Students/Seniors/Groups

To order tickets go to:
www.regenttheatre.com or call: 781-646-4849

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Trained as a jazz drummer Keith treats the human frame as though it were a trap set with a large battery of drums. In his solo performance, Terry claps, jumps, slaps his butt cheeks, shuffles his feet, patty-cakes his thighs, scuffs his shoes, clicks his tongue, and glides across the floor, switching up tempos and altering rhythms with dexterity.

Terry has played drums professionally for most of his life, in a wide variety of music and dance settings, including keeping time for an older generation of tap dancers, like Eddie Brown, Charles "Honi" Coles, and Charles "Cookie" Cook. About thirty years ago Keith Terry was a founding member of the Jazz Tap Ensemble and created his first body music piece, which quickly got inserted into the company's repertoire. When he demonstrated some of the movements for Coles and Cook, they compared it to the hambone dances they were doing in vaudeville. But rhythmically, Terry was onto something else, they said. Terry liked the idea of harking back to an older tradition, while adding innovations of his own. Three decades, hundreds of compositions, and thousands of performances later, Terry was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.

As a soloist Keith Terry has appeared in such settings as Lincoln Center, Bumbershoot, NPR's All Things Considered, the Vienna International Dance Festival and the Paradiso van Slag World Drum Festival in Amsterdam. As a band leader his groups SLAMMIN All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Professor Terry's Circus Band Extraordináire, and Body Tjak (with I Wayan Dibia) have performed in venues including Joe's Pub, WNYC, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), Grand Performances, LACMA Jazz, the Roxy, and the Skirball Center (LA), SFJazz, Vancouver Island MusicFest, and the Bali Arts Festival. In addition, Keith has performed with a wide range of artists including Charles "Honi" Coles, Turtle Island String Quartet, Jovino Santos Neto, Gamelan Sekar Jaya (charter member), Kenny Endo, Freddie Hubbard, Tex Williams, Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin. As a producer he has created 5 CDs and 4 DVDs on Crosspulse Media.

From 1998 to 2005 Keith was on the faculty at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures, where he designed and taught a dozen courses on the relationship of music and dance; deep listening; synchronicity, time and timing; and intercultural communication in the arts. In 2006 he conceived and directed the first international body music performance project for the Orff Institute in Salzburg with artists from Turkey, Finland, Spain, Austria and the US. As Artistic Director, he produced the First International Body Music Festival in Oakland/San Francisco in December, 2008. The second IBMF will take place in December 2009. Keith tours extensively in the Americas, Asia and Europe, where his Body Music performances, workshops, residencies and choreographic commissions are popular among professional performers and educators.

For more information visit http://www.crosspulse.com or http://www.myspace.com/keithterrybodymusic

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR KEITH TERRY

"Sophisticated and up-to-the-minute in its intellectual appeal, in its multicultural inspirations and in its blending of boundaries between art forms." --THE WASHINGTON POST

"Keith Terry's unique "body percussion" performance was likea great vintage wine, so smooth and tangy were his rhythms and sounds, so slyly intoxicating."
-- SALI ANN KRIEGSMAN, DANCE VIEW TIMES

". . . not just crossing cultural borders, but jaywalking across the lines that separate music from the visual arts."  -- RHYTHM MUSIC MAGAZINE

"A virtuoso invertebrate, bending, bouncing, flopping and popping (literally) in our midst but rarely seeming to come down to earth."  -- DANCE MAGAZINE

"Terry lifts you to a philosophical plane of exquisite lucidity usually reached only by means of controlled substances."  -- THE VILLAGE VOICE

"This guy is a one-man band machine. I expected flames to come out of his head by the time he was through."  -- THE NEW YORK PRESS.

Workshops

Saturday and Sunday, October 10 & 11
Regent Studios, 7 Medford Street, Arlington, MA 02474

Two ways to register:
Download registration form and fax or mail.
Register online with the new Dance Inn Productions' secure site.

BODY MUSIC WORKSHOP

Body Music  with Keith Terry
Saturday @ 11:30 and 1:15

Using the oldest instrument on the planet -- the human body -- we clap, slap, snap, step and vocalize our way through some very fun and funky, original and traditional rhythmic music.  BODY MUSIC is an effective way of internalizing rhythmic work, which enhances the development of time, timing, phrasing, listening skills, independence, coordination and ensemble awareness.  It is a useful tool for musicians, dancers and movers of all kinds, actors, DJs and film editors -- anyone interested in improving their rhythmic skills.  Wear comfortable clothing and clean sneakers or jazz shoes. 
for more information:
 
     keithterry@crosspulse.com
     http://www.crosspulse.com

AMERICAN CLOGGING

American Clogging with Evie Ladin and fiddle player
Saturday @ 11:30 and 1:15

American Clogging developed from the collision of English, Irish, Scottish, African and Native American cultures in the mountains in the Southeastern US. The percussive dance tradition that lights the fire under stringband music, American clogging, also known as buckdancing or flatfooting, is the grandmother of tap dance. In this clogging workshop, we will learn many of the basic steps as well as techniques for freestyling. Tap shoes or any hard soled shoes appropriate. For percussive dancers, this workshop will expand your repertoire of styles and syncopated steps.

BODY TAP

Body Tap with Tasha Lawson
Sunday @ 11:00 and 12:30

Tap Dance Vocabulary Transcribed into body percussion; feet, hands and voice combine to create a symphony of sound and movement. Tasha Lawson is Artistic Director of Tri-Tone Productions, a dance company offering interdisciplinary solo and ensemble performance works in the mediums of Body Percussion, Tap, and Contemporary Dance. The company will present a new body percussion work, "Playin" with Chance" a tribute to the late Charles "Honi" Coles and Cholly Atkins. Premiered in Austin, Texas, June 2009, this piece received rave reviews and accolades for its creativity and pioneering technique, which translates tap vocabulary and rudiments of historical tap works into body percussion vocabulary and rudiments. Ms. Lawson will teach workshops on this technique on Sunday at the Regent Studios. For more information about Tasha Lawson and Tri-tone Productions, visit her website at www.tashalawson.com.

RHYTHM TIME STEPS

Rhythm Time Steps for Inter./Adv. Tappers with Josh Hilberman
(Adults/Teens)
Sunday @ 11:00

Josh Hilberman, world renowned performer and teacher, shares original combinations as well as steps influenced by James “Buster” Brown, Coles and Atkins, and Joes Stirling and more!!!!  Don’t miss this rare opportunity to enjoy Josh’s keen sense of timing and musicality as he shares challenging and fun and always usable choreography.  Visit www.hilbermania.com for more propaganda.

CLAP IT TAP IT AND SNAP IT

Clap it, Tap it and Snap it in 6/8 time with Drika Overton
(Int/Adv Tappers)
Sunday @ 12:30

Drika Overton’s career has spanned over 25 years and includes work as a performer, teacher, choreographer, producer, and presenter. She is the creator and artistic director of the internationally recognized Portsmouth Percussive Dance Festival and MaD Theatricals, a unique collaboration of nationally and internationally recognized jazz and tap artists creating the critically acclaimed productions Clara's Dream a jazz nutcracker, and Music Hall Follies: A Vaudeville in 9 Acts with special guest artists Bill Irwin and Fayard Nicholas. Since 1990 she has produced and performed in concerts to promote jazz and tap to wide audiences throughout the region. In 2003 Drika created The Portsmouth Vaudeville Project, a community project that included the Intergenerational Jazz Project and documentary, as well as the documentary 4 Theatres: Remembering Portsmouth in the Age of Vaudeville which aired on NH Public Television and at film festivals around the country.

Drika has shared the stage with such acclaimed artists as Savion Glover, Jimmy Slyde, Buster Brown, Brenda Bufalino, Dianne Walker, and Keith Terry. She has been a featured soloist at the Duke Theater in New York as part of the New York City Tap Festival; the Southeastern TapExplosion in Atlanta; RhythmExplosion, Bozeman, MT; the Bates Dance Festival; the New England Artist’s Congress; The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Shipyard Project; on Public Television; and at numerous jazz clubs, concerts, and festivals.
Drika has received four Spotlight on the Arts Awards from the Seacoast Newspapers as Best Dancer and for Best Dance Production for Clara's Dream a jazz nutcracker, a production also featured in the BBC documentary "Fascinating Rhythms." She has received an Artist Fellowship and New Works grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts as well as grants from the Greater Piscataqua Community Foundation, Art Builds Community! funded by the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Fund, and The New England Foundation for the Arts. In 2007 she was awarded the New Hampshire Governor’s Arts Award for Distinguished Arts Leadership.

In 2007 Drika was selected to participate in the first New England Dance Lab, a Regional Dance Development Initiative of the National Dance Project. Also in 2007 New England Presenters commissioned her and composer Paul Arslanian, with support from the New England Foundation for the Arts, to create a new touring project. Off the Beaten Path: A Jazz & Tap Odyssey was created in collaboration with Brenda Bufalino and Josh Hilberman and toured New England in 2008-2009.

Drika teaches master classes and residencies at schools, colleges and universities, studios and festivals throughout the United States. Most recently she was commissioned to teach and choreograph work for dance companies at Rhode Island College in Providence and at Auburn University in Alabama.

Two ways to register:
Download registration form and fax or mail.
Register online with the new Dance Inn Productions' secure site.

Questions:  Contact Thelma Goldberg at 781-863-5360 or e-mail tgoldberg@thedanceinn.com