IN THE WORKS OF OTHERS

HANK SMITH

Hank Smith is an interdisciplinary performance artist, dancer, director / choreographer, tap historian who emerged as the generation of young dancers in the so-called tap renaissance of the 1970s, has a rich and varied performance background. Trained as a dancer, mime, clown, and actor, he explores aspects of human relationships. The backbone of his work is rhythm, manifested in the percussive use of voice, the body and improvisational rhythm tap dancing, all of which are used to carry out the African American tradition of "stomping the blues."