Nursery Tap Hip to Toe
The birth of her daughter 10 years ago rekindled Juleen Murray Shaw’s interest in nursery rhymes, and she was struck by similarities between the rhythm of those verses and the cadence of various forms of dance.
“I thought wouldn’t it be wonderful to use dance as a background for nursery rhymes?” said Shaw, an actress, writer, producer and director.
The two DVDs she and her creative team produced at a Gig Harbor studio have an unusual style of presentation: the colorfully costumed performers, dancing to nursery rhymes, are seen only from the waist down.
“I wanted the focus to stay on the language and the movement of the legs,” Shaw said. Without seeing the performer’s facial expressions, she said, it’s easier for the children to imagine themselves in the scene.
Photo by NurseryTap.
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