VIDEO EXCERPTS, CHOREOGRAPHY BY ANITA FELDMAN, PERFORMED BY HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, 2012-2014

SoundForest, choreographed by Anita Feldman with sound processing and music by Arthur Solari, performed by Hofstra University students in April 2014.

SoundForest creates layers of tapping rhythms, along with electronic processing of the sounds and music by Arthur Solari, played live by Mr. Solari and Jordan Chiolis.  It is inspired by the quiet of a winter’s dusk, and the interspersed, unexpected, and sometimes hidden sounds and movements among the trees. Luiza Karnas, a visiting dance student who was at Hofstra on scholarship from the Brazilian government, was featured as a soloist and assistant choreographer. The piece was performed by Hofstra dance students in 2014.

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Monkey Mind, choreographed by Anita Feldman, performed by Hofstra University dance students, April 2013

Monkey Mind is a tap dance inspired by the fragmented nature of the music Lick by Julia Wolfe, and our fragmented, difficult-to-control and unpredictable “monkey minds.” It was performed by Hofstra dance students in 2013, and is danced on the "Tap Dance Instrument" designed and built by Anita Feldman and Daniel Schmidt.

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Hexa, originally premiered at the American Dance Festival in North Carolina in 1988, created by Anita Feldman and composer Lois V Vierk, performed by Hofstra University students in April, 2012, with percussionist Jordan Chiolis

Hexa is danced and played on The Tap Dance Instrument, a multi-timbre, multi-pitched modular floor I invented with instrument designer Daniel Schmidt, and also includes live percussion and electronic processing of all of the sounds. Hexa was named for all the sixes in the piece - hexagonal floor shapes, six feet on the Tap Dance Instrument, six percussion instruments played by the musician - and for the magical connotations of "hex" and "hex sign.” These are excerpts from a performance in 2012 by Hofstra University dance students.

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VIDEO EXCERPTS, CHOREOGRAPHY BY ANITA FELDMAN, PERFORMED BY HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, 2007-2012

"Cage Meets 'Bojangles,' choreographed by Anita Feldman with excerpts by Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, performed by Hofstra dance students, April 2011.

CAGE MEETS “BOJANGLES” was inspired by 1935, in honor of Hofstra’s 75^th Anniversary.  In 1935, big band jazzy swing music was the new thing, and was the most popular music.  It originated from African Americans, influenced by the syncopation and swing of African music.  At the same time, an experimental composer named John Cage, was beginning to experiment.  He made a piece in 1935 called Music for Percussion Quartet.  Later in history he was a most revolutionary composer, believing that any sound is music, but in 1935 he was still composing for musical instruments, and was even influenced by swing.

This piece juxtaposes swing music with excerpts of John Cage’s experimental Music for Percussion Quartet, and steps from “Bojangles” very famous 1932 stair dance, with original rhythm tap steps inspired by John Cage’s music.  Dancers perform on stairs built by James Hart, and The Tap Dance Instrument, a patented multi timbre series of floors designed by myself and instrument maker Daniel Schmidt in 1988.

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The Rhythm Walkers, by Anita Feldman, performed by Hofstra University dance students, April, 2010

Walking is a series of falls. THE RHYTHM WALKERS was an inquiry into how dancers could fall off balance totally and accurately on the beat, and how they could make complex rhythms with various body parts, and propel themselves through space at the same time.

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"Coming Down" choreographed by Anita Feldman, performed by Hofstra University dance students, featuring Logan Miller, performed April, 2009.

COMING DOWN was inspired by the music of Kathryn Hylton, an alumni of Hofstra University’s music department.  Imagery was the main inquiry, of the energies and sounds of varying weather, including gentle raindrops, breezes, storms, tornadoes, particularly apt in this time of global warming.

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"Music for Pieces of Wood and Metal" by Anita Feldman, for Hofstra University students, performed April, 2008. 

MUSIC FOR PIECES OF WOOD AND METAL was performed with five Hofstra music percussion students, live and as part of the choreography. They performed contemporary composer Steve Reich’s MUSIC FOR PIECES OF WOOD, while twelve Hofstra tap dancers performed choreography that interplayed in similar sound and movement structures with the music and the musicians.

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City Scraped, by Anita Feldman, performed by Hofstra University dance students, April, 2007

CITY SCRAPED, originally choreographed in 1991 for Anita Feldman Tap, was re-visited for 12 Hofstra dance students in 2007, with live music by Arthur Solari and Sam Sadigursky, and one music excerpt by Guy Klucevsek.  It is a tap dance inspired by city images, of hurrying, waiting, colliding, falling, crowding, impatience, and talking on the cell phone.