The Dance Hall in Kittery will be alive with the sound of movement on Saturday, January 23, 2016 at 7:30pm when An Evening of Jazz & Tap takes the stage. The evening features The Tall Tribe (tap dancers Gay Nardone, Ryan Casey, and Drika Overton) and The Paul Arslanian Trio (Arslanian, George Kaye and Jon Fisher) with special guest, Kelly Kaleta, performing classic repertory and ground-breaking original work. Infectious fun and positive energy guaranteed!

Paul Arslanian and Drika Overton have collaborated on many projects over the years, such as the Portsmouth Percussive Dance Festival, Clara’s Dream A Jazz Nutcracker, Off the Beaten Path: A jazz & Tap Odyssey, and more since their first concert together at The Music Hall in 1990. Currently leading The Jazz Workshop in Northampton, Mass., Arslanian got his start in the jazz world in San Francisco in the 1970s, and ended up playing with a long list of prominent musicians, including Pharoah Sanders, Archie Shepp, Freddie Hubbard, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. He also cofounded the Jazz Tap Ensemble in California, in 1979. These days, his work with dancers continues at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is a senior lecturer in the dance department.

Gay Nardone began her career with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall and danced with the June Taylor Dancers on the Jackie Gleason television show. She is a professor at The University of New Hampshire and has choreographed operas and musicals including Seussical and Vignettes: Ellis Island with David Ripley in the Music Department. Nardone is a long time dance partner and collaborator with Overton.

Ryan P. Casey, named one of Boston’s 25 Most Innovative People Under 25, was also featured on the January 2015 cover of Dance Magazine as one of their “25 to Watch.” This “improbably tall tap fave” (The Boston Globe) trained under Thelma Goldberg and Kelly Kaleta with the Legacy Dance Company of The Dance Inn in Lexington, Mass. He was a founding member of Dorrance Dance and known for his “freakishly clean footwork … reminiscent of Fred Astaire” (Dance Magazine.)

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 at the door and can be purchased at www.thedancehallkittery.org and www.brownpapertickets.com