The Biggest Dance: A Miracle on Concrete
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Author: 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.
“And it just goes to show you—thousands, millions of people have a warm spot in their heart—their tap shoes hanging back behind the old tennis racket, somewhere.”
–Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion, guest appearance; 6:57 p.m., New Year’s Eve, 1983
“Looks like a scene in Rosalie, all those tap-dancers.”
–Eleanor Powell, 1930s film star
Reviews:
“. . . Tappers who are good, some who are oh-so-bad and then, the great ones, should read this book because it is about the joy of tapping by a woman who loves it and it shows. Enjoy!” –Barbara Flanagan, Minneapolis Star Tribune, columnist
“This is a story that will dance its way into your heart . . .”
–Kate St. Vincent Vogl, author of Lost and Found
“I can’t wait to read both books! What fun you have provided for all.”
–Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chairman, Carlson Companies
“This is a story that will dance its way into your heart . . .”
–Kate St. Vincent Vogl, author of Lost and Found
“I can’t wait to read both books! What fun you have provided for all.”
–Marilyn Carlson Nelson, chairman, Carlson Companies
About the Author: 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 faculty of the Minnesota Dance Theatre, Beth soloed with the Minnesota Orchestra in the Tap-Dance Concerto as well as opposite Christopher Plummer, Gregory Hines, and Garrison Keillor, all in Minnesota performances. And now, Beth is a dancer who writes.
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