Phoenix Collective, conceived by visionary tap dancer Michela Marino Lerman, is a boundary-expanding ensemble where rhythm, movement, and improvisation converge. This iteration of Phoenix Collective is co-developed with the electrifying drummer Savannah Harris, forming a creative partnership rooted in deep listening, rhythmic inquiry, and collective invention.
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At its core, Phoenix Collective reimagines tap dance and music — treating tap as both kinetic expression and percussive instrument, and reshaping jazz through movement, texture, and spontaneous dialogue. The ensemble composes in motion, using intricate footwork, layered grooves, and real-time improvisation to animate the full expressive potential of tap and music as a unified force, revealing them not as separate disciplines but as one living, breathing language — melody, rhythm, and form in motion.
For this special engagement at National Sawdust, Phoenix Collective includes an extraordinary lineup of musicians: Nicole Glover on tenor saxophone, Miki Yamanaka on piano, and Or Bareket on bass.
Together, these artists create a living, breathing work — an exhilarating celebration of jazz as a shared language, where music and movement ignite, collide, and soar.
This is a seated performance. If you require accessibility accommodations, please email boxoffice@nationalsawdust.org.