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Dodge Poetry at Njpac at New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Courtesy of Angela Thomas | Posted on February 4, 2015
Where
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
36 Park Place
Newark, NJ
Map
888-GO-NJPAC
When
Fri, March 6, 2015
8:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Recognized poets from throughout New Jersey gather for three evenings of curated poetry readings and performance, presented as an extension of NJPAC’s participation in the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival
Shuffle, Cramproll, Paradiddle and Stomp are only a few of the names of dance steps in rhythmic tap, which treats the dancer’s feet as a percussion instrument. Newark resident and world-class tap dancer Maurice Chestnut accompanies poet and griot Kurtis Lamkin, along with poets Marjorie Barnes, Michael Cirelli, Saeed Jones and Patrick Rosal, in dynamic duets of poetic and tap-dance rhythms....