Description: Personal website of Brian Seibert, writer, journalist, dance critic, author of "What the Eye Hears, A History of Tap Dancing."
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JOURNALISM
"His big, smart, wonderfully anecdoctal and definitive history of tap dance...offers passion about its subject, deft evocations of dance action and a narrative mischief suited to tap's trickster mentality. . . Mr. Seibert's way of explaining tap constitutes nothing less than a social history of our country's deepest folk and pop roots. . . He rolls out a cast of thousands. . . and he layers their stories—black dancers on white on black—so deftly that a reader turning the pages gets a visceral sense of the a
-Elizabeth Kendall, The New York Times