Tap is Back in Space City

New Festival Welcomes All-Star Faculty

Jason Samuels Smith

Texas New Tap, a newly established production company whose purpose is to promote tap education and enthusiasm throughout the greater Houston area will launch Space City Tap Fest on February 26, 2010. Faculty will include astonishing young talent and 2009 Dance Magazine Award winner, Jason Samuels Smith, as well as emerging leaders Chloé and Maud Arnold. Organizers Mary Lee Kennedy and Emilie Koenig hope that the weekend-long event will give “lift-off” to an annual tradition and put Houston back on the circuit of American and international cities that bring together hoofers to woodshed, jam, pass down their skills, and recount their lineage.