Brenda Buffalino POEMS WITH A BEAT

BRENDA BUFALINO recites and reads from her book of poems “CIRCULAR MIGRATIONS,” and her memoir “TAPPING THE SOURCE…” accompanied by her digitally looped taps, and DVD projections.

Tuesday May 24, 2016 at 7:30PM
Westbeth Community Room
155 Bank Street
(Enter through courtyard)
New York, NY 10014

Bufalino; Dancer, author, poet, and ceramic sculptor, is a master Tap Dance artist, and has written the texts for her numerous One Person Shows, that include “Cantata & The Blues,” “Diary of a Woodpecker,” and “That’s Jazz Then,” which she has performed internationally for over thirty years.

For her highly acclaimed company, the American Tap Dance Orchestra, she choreographed, and wrote the text for her Tap Opera, “Gertrude’s Nose…the Far West Promontory,” with original music, sung and composed by Jay Clayton.

Among her many poems she will be reading from the “Mountain Suite,” excerpted from her libretto. She has written numerous articles for Dance Magazines, wrote the new forward and afterward for the book “Jazz Dance by Marshall and Jean Stearns.” A book of poems,”Circular Migrations,” and her memoir “Tapping the Source…tap dance stories, theory, and practice,” were both published by Codhill press.

She has been awarded numerous fellowships and two of her choreographies were recently recognized by the NEA as American Masterpieces.