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Psychologists looking for signs of sibling rivalry in tap dancers Joseph and Josette Wiggan will be decidedly disappointed. The brother and sister phenoms, now 19 and 22, began tapping 10 years ago and have been, for most of their performing lives, metaphorically joined at the hip.
The two spent seven years dancing with Los Angeles-based Kennedy Tap Company, where they traveled throughout the U.S., as well as to Finland and Cuba, and are currently garnering attention in Lynn Dally's Jazz Tap Ensemble (JTE). Last year The New York Times' Jennifer Dunning wrote of their appearance at The Joyce Theater, "Josette and Joseph Wiggan bring a somewhat brassier tone to the mix in their solos and group numbers, dancing with a canny expertise and an explosive joy that suggest that tap lives on in all its purity in younger generations."
More recently, though, college has split tip the siblings. Josette is enrolled in UCLA's department of World Arts and Culture, double majoring in...
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