The 3rd Annual Chicago Tap Summit PRESS RELEASE

Aug 31st, 2007

For Immediate Release

Contact: Bril Barrett

c/o M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Inc.

Phone: (773) 604-1899

Fax: (773) 604-1898

Email: bril@maddrhythms.com

www.maddrhythms.com


The 3rd ANNUAL CHICAGO TAP SUMMIT


"Keeping The Tradition Alive!"


M.A.D.D. Rhythms, Inc., The Chicago Park District, The
South Shore
Cultural Center and The Harold Washington Cultural Center
bring forth
the 3rd Annual Chicago Tap Summit October 12-14. Over 10
of the
worlds most renowned Tap Dancers will come together from
New York, St.
Louis, Chicago and Canada to teach, perform and celebrate
the art of
tap dance. This year's Summit will posthumously honor
Chicago's own
Sammy Dyer. Dyer, instructor of tap and stage shows for
Muriel Abbott
and the famous Abbotteers, also produced cafe shows at the
old Sunset
Cafe, Club Morocco, and Club DeLisa, where he spent
eighteen years. In
1933 Mr. Dyer established The Sammy Dyer School of Dancing
and in 1950
created the Dyerettes, an African American female dance
troupe known
to be the only chorus act of its kind. They toured
internationally
with some of the greatest entertainers of the twentieth
century
including Nat King Cole, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughn.
Special
guests include Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, star of the newly
released
independent film "The Rise and Fall of Miss Thang", Robert
"The
Professor" Reed founder, producer and director of The St.
Louis Tap
Festival, Chicago's subway legend and tap mentor Mr. Taps,
Reggio "The
Hoofer" McLaughlin and M.A.D.D Rhythms' own founder and
artistic
director Bril Barrett. Jumaane Taylor, Lee Howard, Starinah
Dixon and
Ja'Bowen Dixon round out the well-diversified faculty.
Chicago's
explosive B-Boy crew, Stick & Move, All-female dance group,
Flawless
and HipHop supergroup, Hip Hop ConnXion, represents the
positive Hip
Hop movement. Collectively the faculty credits include
Broadway's
Bring in the Noise Bring in the Funk, Black & Blue,
national and
international tours of Riverdance, the movies "TAP",
"Bamboozled" and
"The Cotton Club", "Star Search", concert openings for the
late great
Sammy Davis Jr., and producers of the St. Louis Tap
Festival and the
Chicago Tap Summit.


The 3rd Annual Chicago Tap Summit will include an array of
master
classes for all levels of tap dancers, along with history
sessions
(complete with rare footage of some of the all time greats
of tap), a
participants' showcase & a panel discussion. The festival
will wrap
up with an electrifying concert "TAPathetically Speaking"
featuring
all faculties, guests and the M.A.D.D. Rhythms crew.
Chicago's
Detour JazFunk will provide live music. All classes take
place at the
South Shore Cultural Center (7059 South Shore Drive). The
performance
takes place at The Harold Washington Cultural Center (4701
S. Martin
Luther King Drive).


M.A.D.D. Rhythms is a dynamic collective of young people
from diverse
socioeconomic backgrounds, with one thing in common. A
love and
respect for the art of tap dance or "the dance" as we like
to call it.
Bril Barrett (Imagine Tap, Porgy and Bess, The Tap Dance
Kid,
Riverdance, Oprah and the Jenny Jones show) founded the
company in
2001 and serves as business manager and artistic director
as well as
being one of the company's principal
choreographers/dancers. Jumaane
Taylor (Imagine Tap, Dance Spirit Magazine's top 20 hoofers
under 20
(may 2005 issue), Grand prize winner of The Chicago Tap Off
and the

Bring In Da Noize Bring In Da Funk Contest, Chicago Tap All
Stars,
Rhythm I.S.S. and Friends) began as a protégé of first
Bril, but has
grown into an artist all his own. Jumaane is the Assistant
Director
and principal choreographer/dancer in M.A.D.D. Rhythms.
Approaching
our sixth full year in existence, with seven critically
acclaimed
concert performances, several workshops behind us and 2
successful
festivals under our belt, We hope you'll join us.


PSA Unleash your rhythm and experience and learn tap
dancing from
world renowned hoofers at M.A.D.D. Rhythms 3rd Annual
Chicago Tap
Summit; October 12th through 14th at the South Shore
Cultural Center
(7059 South Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60649) and The Harold
Washington
Cultural Center (4701 S. Martin Luther King Drive). Enjoy
a weekend
filled with workshops and evening events including a
culminating
concert entitled "TAPathetically Speaking", Sunday Oct.14th
at 3pm.
Tickets are $20 and classes range from $30 for individual
classes to
$370 for an unlimited package. For more information call
(773)
604-1899 or visit them online at www.maddrhythms.com

Bril Barrett M.A.D.D. RHYTHMS, INC. 7059 S. Shore Drive
Chicago, IL

60649 773.604.1899 phone 773.604.1898 fax
www.maddrhythms.com