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Maya Guice: blending tap and ballet training, the Jazz Tap Ensemble dancer has an old-time Hollywood glow.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-MAY-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Maya Guice: blending tap and ballet training, the Jazz Tap Ensemble dancer has an old-time Hollywood glow.(on the rise)

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Balletic and delicate from the waist up, crisp and quick through her legs and feet, Maya Guice seems like a tap throwback to the era when hoofing and Hollywood were still in sync.

When Jazz Tap Ensemble performed at New York's Joyce Theater last September, the program paid homage to big-screen greats from Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and Ann Miller to Gregory Hines and Gene Kelly. With her high heels and flirty femininity, Guice, 18, seemed sweetly at ease onstage, glowing among a starry ensemble of tap talent, even in a recreation of the tricky jukebox number from Eleanor Powell's Broadway Melody of 1940.

"Maya exemplifies grace," says tap dancer Chloe Arnold, who appeared with her in the JTE run. "She has the footwork and clarity...

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