Sun. July 12 - Tappin The Classics: Common Ground Tap Dance and Grand Piano

Sun. July 12 - Tappin The Classics: Common Ground Tap Dance and Grand Piano - 2pm - Sanctuary

Dani Champagne and Justin Boccitto of the innovative professional tap dance company "Common Ground" perform classics with Jerimiah Otto. Franz Joseph Haydn and Anna Bon overlapped for three years as they composed keyboard sonatas and chamber music for the Esterhauzy court in Eisenstadt Germany (1762-65). The society at court was so distant geologically and artistically from the rest of continental Europe that this environment allowed for wildly creative and personal music to emerge from both Bon and Haydn. Common Ground tap dance and pianist/harpsichordist Jerimiah Otto will explore the syncopated dialogues already present in this style of piano and harpsichord sonatas. This collaboration stems from a desire to emphasize fresh and immediately moving techniques in our performances of classical music.