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What's New & Notable:

• Scholarships available for KOW students! Applications are due August 15, 2008.
• Scholarships also available for Tappers With Attitude! Applications are due July 23, 2008.
• WOW - finalists for 3 awards! Tappers With Attitude is in the finals for 2 Metro DC Dance Awards: Outstanding Youth Performance 2008, & Overall Production - Small Venue. AND... TWA's Artistic Director, Ms. Vicki Moss, is a finalist for Outstanding Achievement in Dance Education.
• Summer Camps at Knock On Wood:  July 21-25 & August 4-8, 2008. (Check out our new photo album from Spring Break Camp!)
• NEW Sophisticated Tappers Program, a 4-week tap class for ages 50+, in August.
• Sneak Peek at KOW's 08-09 Calendar: master classes, tap luau, open mic nights, more!
  

IN MEMORIAM: Jimmy Slyde 

October 2, 1927 - May 16, 2008

We are deeply saddened to tell you about the passing of yet another tap legend, Jimmy "Slyde" Godbolt. His death, so closely following the passing of LaVaughn Robinson in January, leaves a great void in our community. As the elders pass on, we encourage all tap dancers to watch the old movies, to read about the master dancers and their lives, to check out the excellent documentaries about these awesome artists, to use every opportunity to learn from a master artist that you are ever offered, and to dance on in their memory!

Mr. Slyde and Mr. Robinson were among the few remaining old masters of our art; they will be missed, but their memory lives on in all we do, and in all we dance, forever. To learn more about both dancers, please visit Tap Legacy Foundation, Inc.

* Watch Jimmy Slyde work his beautiful charm in this video clip from 1998 (more video clips available here, as well).

Our programs are sponsored in part by funding from

the Montgomery County government and the Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County,

The Jim and Carol Trawick Foundation,

The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation,

Dallas Morse Coors Foundation,

and the Washington Post.