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JAMboree!, the final concert of Chicago Human Rhythm Project's second annual Youth Tap Ensemble Conference, took on special resonance. Earlier that day, tap legend Gregory Hines's death was reported. The mood, however, was encouraging as thirteen tap groups (double the amount of last year) proved that tap's hooters would not disappear. They took tap in daring new directions, like body drumming and a fusion of funk, hip-hop, jazz, African, Latin, and Irish step-dancing styles.
JAMboree! culminated in master teacher Heather Cornell's exhilarating recreation of a sand dance. Inspired by pioneering sand dancer Harriet Brown, sand dance, which is usually performed as a solo, was set on conference participants as an ensemble number....
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