From SoHo to Harlem tap aficionados from 38 countries will be taking part in performances, classes, workshops and panels, watching films and inducting the first members of the New York City Tap Dance Hall of Fame.
Helping Syria's child refugees with music Jump to media player A composer is taking music to refugee camps in Lebanon, to help children deal with what has happened to them by taking part in performances.
He was more successful as a singer: he and his elder brother sang in their father's choir, taking part in performances of large-scale works by Handel, Haydn, Mendelssohn and others.
Since it was unusual for rulers or courtiers themselves to take part in performance (they often did in Java, Bali, and Thailand), the court artist was usually a middle-level civil servant.
In launching the review, Vaizey stressed the point that all young people should have opportunities to take part in performance and visual arts and learn about Britain's cultural, architectural and film heritage.
The older view of A.W. Pollard, W.W. Greg, Fredson Bowers, and other practitioners of the so-called New Bibliography generally regards these texts as suspect and perhaps pirated, either by unscrupulous visitors to the theatre or by minor actors who took part in performance and who then were paid to reconstruct the plays from memory.
At the other end of the age spectrum, plenty of young children are being mobilised to take part in performances of commemorative songs, the source said.
For Jeremy Lloyd's creation Captain Beaky and His Band, Michell illustrated the books and took part in performances once a recording of the songs had taken off in 1980.
In the Farruco family, everyone takes part in performances, including children as young as 12. Surprisingly, Farruquito is in charge, a position he assumed after his grandfather's death in 1997.
Kirchner, a pianist and composer friendly with Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn, reworked the sextets as piano trios, with Brahms's blessing, so that he could take part in performances himself.
