Biggest Dance

Name: Biggest Dance
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ISBN: 9780878394364

ISBN-10: 0878394362

ISBN-13: 9780878394364

Edition: 2011

Authors: Beth Obermeyer

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One October evening 1,801 tap dancers shuffled and clicked their way down Hennepin Avenue to open their arts center-the first flash mob, decades before the Internet-and set a Guinness World Record. The upbeat tapping paved the way for a new image for the downtown thoroughfare, for all the townspeople had signed up. Church ladies tapped beside ladies of the street already in fishnets. Families, lovers, and dancing schools too, joined in the dance, more alike than different with tap shoes on their feet. Beth Obermeyer used her journalism degree and a lifetime of dance and music to start her own event/public relations company. Six TA DA! Special Events went into Guinness World Records. On the…

Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: North Star Press of Saint Cloud Inc
Publication date: 5/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Prologue: The Legend



Open It!



Not Wine, Not Cheese



Go For It!



A Record Breaker



Mr. Teener's Theatrical Therapy



On the Avenue



The Temple Turns Arts Center: Our Lady of Sandstone



But "Fools Rush In …"



The Flanagan Report



Three Weeks Out: My First Tap Dancers



Around the Block: Shuffle It Right



On the Comer: The Ladies of the Street



Out of the Closet



In the Basement of St. Thomas the Apostle Church: The Tommie Tappers



Just Mail It!



The Mail Taps In



I Love Loyce



One Week Out: On the Snowy Side of the Street



Tappers on Top of Trucks



Two Days Out: "Is 300 Too Much?"



Lynn Finds A Way



The Rehearsal at Farmers' Market



On Tap on Hennepin



Our Chorus Lines Up: Taps Tied to Flip Flops



The Tappers Night Out



Our Chorus Line, Launched



The Morning After



The After Tap



The Press



The Awards



The Thank You



All Those T-Shirts



The Guinness Book of World Records



Yamagata and His Serigraphs: "Life Isn't So Bad after All…"


Epilogue: Thirty Years Later: The Revisiting of an Avenue