Encore Performance : How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap into Happiness by Vicki G Riordan (2012, Hardcover)

Center Point Large Print

1611734495

9781611734492

126318536

Encore Performance : How One Woman's Passion Helped a Town Tap Into Happiness

368 Pages

English

Dance / Tap, Women, Entertainment & Performing Arts

2012

Large Type

Yes

Performing Arts, Biography & Autobiography

Vicki G Riordan

Platinum Nonfiction Ser.

Hardcover

17.6 Oz

8.3 in

5.5 in

Trade

2012-013391

Large Type / large print edition

Growing up in the 1950s, Vicki Grubic Riordan idolized stars like Shirley Temple and Gene Kelly, but like many baby boomers, she put her passion on hold to focus on starting a family. It was only when her marriage ended and she was left with little means of support that she returned to her first true love: dance.At sixty-two, when her peers were thinking about retirement, Vicki opened the doors to what has become America's largest adult tap dancing studio, making Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the unofficial tap capital of the world and the home of her celebrated "Tap Pups." Most of her dancers are in their fifties and sixties, but instead slowing down at this stage of life, tap has helped them to get in touch with their own natural rhythm.Vicki's students come from all walks of life, but through dancing together, they've found a powerful source of friendship, vitality, and fulfillment. In Encore Performance, Vicki inspires readers of all ages to listen to the beat of their own hearts and dance through life as they were born to do.

GV1785.R57A3 2012b