Tap Dance Lectures with Margaret Morrison at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tap Dance Lectures at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

with Margaret Morrison

Sponsored by Dance@MIT, SLIPPAGE, & MIT Department of Women's and  
Gender Studies

free and open to the public

Monday, March 14, 2011
at MIT
Building 4 Room 149
77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139
for more info: 617-253-6957

2:00-3:30
Artist Talk "Body of Rhythm: 30 years in rhythm tap"
Margaret Morrison shares video and tap dance stories from her career.

3:30-5:00
"She Stayed With the Sisters: Tap Dance Narratives and Invisibilized  
Women"
Margaret Morrison presents new research on Alice Whitman, the "Queen  
of Tap", Juanita Pitts, "Tops in Tap", and other African American  
women tap dancers of the 1920s to 1950s.