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Blame it on the bossa nova: Tapper Cintia Chamecki brings the rhythms of her native Brazil to a playful new fusion.

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At one moment, the rapid-fire delivery of Cintia Chamecki's five-member tap ensemble sound big enough to be an entire orchestra, and in the next, quiets to a whisper. The performers onstage at the Duke Theater in New York City work each musical phrase as if it were dialogue. They modulate their cadence to mimic the inflections of human speech. You can almost hear the rise of question marks and the fall of commas.

Chamecki, a 31-year-old native of Brazil, is part of a new wave of international artists who are teaming tap dance with the rhythms and cultures of other countries. From Bali to Japan, choreographers are creating a fusion of tap with concepts as diverse as Afro-Cuban beat and Norse gods. Chamecki, in particular, is making a name for herself by interpreting traditional American tap dance with a distinctly Brazilian voice.

Her early dance training in the southern city of Curitiba, Brazil, was similar to that of middle-class children across the U.S.: jazz, tap, and ballet. But...

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