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“Rhythm at the Regent” with special guests Keith Terry and Crosspulse

Presented by Regent Theatre at Regent Theatre

October 10, 2009

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Dance Inn Productions, under the direction of impresario Thelma Goldberg will present the fifth annual “Rhythm at the Regent” concert on Saturday, October 10 at 8pm at Arlington’s Regent Theatre—this year celebrating the best of Body Percussion featuring the acclaimed Keith Terry, master innovator and leader in the field of body music. With his company, Crosspulse, Keith will take us on an electrifying rhythmic journey that blurs the line between music and dance, with special opening performances by Legacy Dance Company, Commonwealth Tap Collective, and Tri-Tone Body Rhythms Quintet. Keith Terry is an acclaimed choreographer/composer/percussionist/rhythm dancer/educator whose artistry has straddled the line between music and dance for more than three decades. Trained as a jazz drummer, Terry treats the human frame as though it were a trap set with a large battery of drums. In his solo performance, Terry claps, jumps, slaps his butt cheeks, shuffles his feet, patty-cakes his thighs, scuffs his shoes, clicks his tongue, and glides across the floor, switching up tempos and altering rhythms with dexterity. Terry has played drums professionally for most of his life, in a wide variety of music and dance settings, including keeping time for an older generation of tap dancers such as Eddie Brown, Charles "Honi" Coles, and Charles "Cookie" Cook. Thirty years ago Terry was a founding member of the Jazz Tap Ensemble and created his first body music piece, which quickly got inserted into the company's repertoire. When he demonstrated some of the movements for Coles and Cook, they compared it to the hambone dances from their days in vaudeville. Yet, rhythmically, Terry was onto something else, they said. Terry liked the idea of harking back to an older tradition, while adding innovations of his own. Three decades, hundreds of compositions, and thousands of performances later, Terry was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. As a soloist Keith Terry has appeared in such settings as Lincoln Center, Bumbershoot, NPR's All Things Considered, the Vienna International Dance Festival and the Paradiso van Slag World Drum Festival in Amsterdam. As a band leader his groups SLAMMIN All-Body Band, Crosspulse Percussion Ensemble, Professor Terry's Circus Band Extraordináire, and Body Tjak (with I Wayan Dibia) have performed in venues including Joe's Pub, WNYC, Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors (NYC), Grand Performances, LACMA Jazz, the Roxy, and the Skirball Center (LA), SFJazz, Vancouver Island MusicFest, and the Bali Arts Festival. In addition, Keith has performed with a wide range of artists including Charles "Honi" Coles, Turtle Island String Quartet, Jovino Santos Neto, Gamelan Sekar Jaya (charter member), Kenny Endo, Freddie Hubbard, Tex Williams, Robin Williams and Bobby McFerrin. As a producer he has created five CDs and four DVDs on Crosspulse Media. From 1998 to 2005 Keith was on the faculty at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Culture. In 2006 he conceived and directed the first international body music performance project for the Orff Institute in Salzburg with artists from Turkey, Finland, Spain, Austria and the US. As Artistic Director, he produced the First International Body Music Festival in Oakland/San Francisco in 2008. For more information visit http://www.crosspulse.com, http://www.myspace.com/keithterrybodymusic. Tasha Lawson, Artistic Director of Tri-Tone Productions, presents her dynamic company, Tri-tone Body Rhythms Quintet, to the Boston community with a new body percussion work, “Playin’ with Chance” a tribute to the late Charles “Honi” Coles and Cholly Atkins. Premiered in Austin, Texas, June 2009, this piece received rave reviews and accolades for its creativity and pioneering technique, which translates tap vocabulary and rudiments of historical tap works into body percussion vocabulary and rudiments. Ms. Lawson will teach workshops on this technique on Sunday at the Regent Studios. For more information about Tasha Lawson and Tri-tone Productions, visit www.tashalawson.com. The Legacy Dance Company, the popular youth company of The Dance Inn, will be performing a multi-form percussive dance to Cheiro Verde, by Barbatuques, choreographed by Tasha Lawson and recently presented at the Harvard Square Dance Festival. The Commonwealth Tap Collective features Boston’s own Suzanne Bouffard, Jill Braverman, Shannon Sullivan, and Stefanie Weber in exciting new choreography by Max Pollak. The Fifth Annual Rhythm at the Regent will be presented on Saturday, October 10 at 8pm at the historic Regent Theatre, 7 Medford Street (off Mass. Ave.) in Arlington, Massachusetts. Reserved seats are $25 for adults, $20 for students and seniors with group rates available. (A select number of Gold Circle seats are available for $30 in the first few rows center orchestra.) The Regent Theatre, “Arlington’s Show Place of Entertainment” since 1916, is MBTA and wheelchair accessible with free parking across the street. For tickets, directions, and more information call 781-646-4849 or visit www.regenttheatre.com. In conjunction with this exclusive concert event, workshops will be offered Saturday and Sunday, October 10 and 11 with Keith Terry, Evie Ladin, Tasha Lawson, Josh Hilberman and Drika Overton. For details and registrations visit http://www.danceinnproductions.org/ WHAT IS BODY MUSIC? Body Music, also known as Body Percussion and Body Drumming, is the oldest music on the planet. Before people were hollowing logs and slapping rocks, they were using their bodies to stomp, clap, sing, snap and grunt their musical ideas. There are many traditional Body Musics in the world, from African-American Hambone and Flamenco Palmas to Sumatran Saman and Ethiopian Armpit music. Keith Terry has developed a contemporary style of Body Music based on his training as a jazz drummer, as well as his years of intensive study and collaboration with world rhythmic systems. CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR KEITH TERRY "Sophisticated and up-to-the-minute in its intellectual appeal, in its multicultural inspirations and in its blending of boundaries between art forms." --THE WASHINGTON POST "Keith Terry ’s unique “body percussion” performance was like a great vintage wine, so smooth and tangy were his rhythms and sounds, so slyly intoxicating." --SALI ANN KRIEGSMAN, DANCE VIEW TIMES ". . . not just crossing cultural borders, but jaywalking across the lines that separate music from the visual arts." --RHYTHM MUSIC MAGAZINE "A virtuoso invertebrate, bending, bouncing, flopping and popping (literally) in our midst but rarely seeming to come down to earth." --DANCE MAGAZINE "Terry lifts you to a philosophical plane of exquisite lucidity usually reached only by means of controlled substances." --THE VILLAGE VOICE "This guy is a one-man band machine. I expected flames to come out of his head by the time he was through." --THE NEW YORK PRESS