The Talkback Tour
July 2021
"Tap was a language of resistance and freedom for my African ancestors."
Y’all, I love me some rhythm tap! Now, two decades later, I’m taking another sabbatical. Yes, me and my inner artist are hitting the road again. On this trip however, the lady artist promises to be anything but silent.
Tap was a language of resistance and freedom for my African ancestors. So to honor them and this powerful dance form, I’ll be dropping my board and tapping across America, visiting places and spaces in this country where Africans fought, farmed, founded, retreated, restored, developed, defended and died.
July 2021, follow along with C2O Rhythm and Art’s "The Talkback Tour". Celebrating 20 years of rhythm tap dance in honor of the African-Americans for whom tap was not a dance, but a revolution ✨🔮✊🏿
In July 2000, I decided to take a long term sabbatical from my trip technology and training career to nurture the silent, inner artist who had been sitting on my spirit for many, many, many years…waiting for me to give her a voice.
So, I packed up my East coast life into my black Chevy Cavalier and set off cross country, California-bound. On August 1st, 2000, I arrived in the Bay Area. Not long after that I attended a tap class in San Francisco. That day, my silent, inner artist ceased waiting on me. She had not only found her voice, but the rhythm to go with it. That rhythm tap class would be the catalyst to what is now a passionate and committed 20-year relationship with this uniquely African-American art form.
The Talkback Tour
Allensworth, CA
Dearfield, CO
Hopeville, AZ
Tulsa, OK
Allensworth Township was founded by Allen Allensworth — first African American lieutenant colonel in the Army, chaplain, and ordained minister — in 1908 as a sovereign and self-sufficient Black American utopia near Bakersfield, California.
Although the township did not thrive for long, it is a place that inspirits many as an example of an earnest effort in self-determination for Black people.
The area is now known as Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park.
Allensworth, CA
