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Our repertoire
Rather than having a fixed repertoire, like most performing companies, Footprints learns several new pieces each season and periodically brings back favorites. We hope you enjoy the variety.
Repertoire highlights include:
Premiered at Tap Jam 2010
** Hallelujah (Ayodele Casel) **Concerto (Derick Grant) Poison (Joey Columbus & Karen Silvasy) Midnight Tango (Mark Yonally) **Sing, Sing Sing (Ayodele Casel) **Routine 2 on Green Dolphin Street (Leon Collins, as taught by Dianne "Lady Di" Walker) ** Chair Dance (Ernest "Brownie" Brown & Reggio "The Hoofer" McLaughlin) ** Extraordinary Machine (Michelle Dorrance) Alice Suite Cait Jones **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2011
** Dance Macabre (Derick Grant) ** Extraordinary Machine Suite (Michelle Dorrance) Bollywood (Cait Jones) The Affix Pulse (Joey Columbus) Soul Survivor (Chloe Arnold) Isfahan (Mark Yonally) Love On Top (Kelsie Barbacovi, Joey Columbus & Sara Pritchard) Welcome to Burlesque (Joey Columbus & Sara Pritchard) **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2012
Good Time (Kelsie Barbacovi, Sarah Krumm & Rachael Papp) RDM (Danielle Brooks, Molly Favreua & Rachel Jacob) ** The Rag (Michelle Dorrance) A'Capella (Footprints circa 2004) Ninja (Cait Jones) We Work Out (Mark Yonally) The Machines (Joey Columbus) **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2013
Poinciana (Derick Grant CleoTAPra (Joey Columbus) Moonwalk (Mark Yonally) Sing With a Swing (Kelsie Barbacovi Speak Easy (Danielle Brooks, Molly Favreau, Rachel Jacob) In the End (Cait Jones) |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2009
**Happy Feet (Cait Jones) Commissioned By Warner Bros.® Ramalama (Joey Columbus & Karen Silvasy) **Do Your Ting (Jason Janas)* **R-E-S-P-E-C-T (Cait Jones) **Hide Nor Hair (Mark Yonally) **Routine 53 (Leon Collins, as taught by Dianne “Lady Di” Walker)* *LEARNED AT CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT'S YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLES CONFERENCE 2009 **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2008
**Color Blind (Cait Jones) **We Go Together (Cait Jones) **Stair Dance (Steven Zee) **Cantelope Island (Mark Yonally) Take Five (Emily Anderson, Annie Freyman, Becca Snow) **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2007
Ain’t Nothing Wrong With That (Grace Douglass) **Hallelujah! (Ayodele Casel)* **Buck and Wing (Josh Hilberman)* **Autumn Leaves (Lane Alexander)* **Get On The Good Foot (Mark Yonally) **Bridge Attack (Cait Jones) *LEARNED AT CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT'S YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLES CONFERENCE 2007 **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2006
**All The Things You Are (Jason Samuels Smith) Boogie Shoes (C.J. Salvador) **Tjak! (Keith Terry)* Man With The Hex (Cait Jones & Caitlin Weinstein; Jump Around (C.J. Salvador & Kathryn Young) **Opus 1 (Harold Cromer)* ** Tail Feather (Cait Jones) *LEARNED AT CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT'S YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLES CONFERENCE 2006 **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2005
**Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego (Mark Yonally) **Bad Businessmen (Mark Yonally) Too Close for Comfort (C.J. Salvador) **Audrey (Ayodele Casel)* **Cure for the Itch (Cait Jones) **FUNk! (Bril Barrett) **Mellow Saxophone (Mike Minery) *LEARNED AT CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT'S YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLES CONFERENCE 2004 **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2004
What I Like About You (Annie Freyman) Sway (Mark Yonally) Walkin' In Memphis (Grace Douglass) Supermoves (Cait Jones) HiPaPpElLa (Footprints Tap Ensemble) **The Cane Dance (Ernest Brown & Reggio McLaughlin)* Hook (Becca Snow) **Best of My Love (Idella Reed)* *LEARNED AT CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT'S YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLES CONFERENCE 2004 **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2003
Footloose (Annie Freyman) Odd Couple (Becca Snow) !PoP! (Chrissy Jones) **Dee Dah (Mark Yonally) **Sand Dance (Heather Cornell)* It Don't Mean A Thing (Emily Anderson, Cait Jones, Becca Snow, Kathryn Young) Take Five (Emily Anderson, Annie Freyman, Becca Snow) **Chair Dance (Ernest Brown & Reggio McLaughlin)* **YTEC A Cappella (Jason Samuels Smith)* **Latin (Dianne Walker & Footprints) *LEARNED AT CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT'S YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLES CONFERENCE 2003 **GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
Premiered at Tap Jam 2002
St. Patrick's Day (Emily Anderson, Cait Jones, Becca Snow, Kathryn Young) Strength, Courage and Wisdom (Becca Snow) Hip Hop (Becca Snow & Kathryn Young) Achille’s Jig/Step Into Ireland (The Ensemble) **Conglomeration (Honi Coles, restaging by Acia Gray)* **Stair Dance (Steven Zee)* Rhythm (Cait Jones) *LEARNED AT CHICAGO HUMAN RHYTHM PROJECT'S YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLES CONFERENCE 2002 ** GUEST CHOREOGRAPHER |
** All choreography before 2002 commissioned by Sarah Cook, Founding Artistic Director