5th Annual Tap & Tapas Benefit April 20, 2009

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Please join us for Groove With Me's5thAnnual Spring Benefit: Tap & Tapas

Monday, April 20th, 20096:30 to 9:00 pm

Westside Loft336 West 37thStreet, 6th FloorBetween 8th & 9th AvenuesNew York City

Special performance by Savion GloverActor, Tapper & ChoreographerThe Tap Dance Kid, Bring in Da Noise Bring in Da Funk, Bamboozled and Happy Feet

Featuring tastings by some ofNew Yorks most celebrated chefs:Govind Armstrong Table 8April Bloomfield TheSpotted PigFloyd Cardoz - TablaTom ColicchioCraftScott Conant ScarpettaHarold DieterlePerillaClaudia Fleming TheNorth Fork Table & InnMichael Laiskonis Le BernardinBill McDaniel The Red CatErin McKenna BabycakesRyan Skeen Irving MillBradford Thompson Lever HouseJonathan Waxman Barbuto

Savion Glover and our tappers will perform at 7:15pm.

Please RSVP by April 6th as space is limited.

www.groovewithme.org

Groove With Me, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that provides free after-school dance classes and performance opportunities to low-income, at-risk girls in East Harlem, New York City. Groove With Me utilizes dance as a means to instill skills girls need to confront the adversity they face daily and throughout their future development. The organization seeks to decrease teen pregnancy, truancy, crime, violence, prostitution, substance abuse and gang related activity by providing girls-only, positive development programming.

90% of the expenses at Groove With Me go directly to programming, to providing free dance classes to girls. When you contribute to Groove With Me you know your support is going to the immediate necessities of a dance studio for girls.

In December, 2008, Groove With Mes 200 dancers had the opportunity to perform at the World Famous Apollo Theater for over 900 audience members. The show was produced by just 4 staff members and was choreographed by almost 40 volunteer dance teachers. Over 500 teaching hours in our studio were logged just from September thru December!Your donations help provide Groove With Mes girls the opportunity to not only experience professional dance classes in a newly renovated studio, but they also give the girls the chance to perform in professional venues.

Founder & ExecutiveDirectorAbigail Rosin

Program DirectorMeredith Sherman, LMSW

Board of DirectorsMarguerite DAloia, ChairRachel Lurie, Vice ChairMona Girotra, SecretarySteve Wolinsky, TreasurerFrancesca AbbracciamentoHope ClementsMargie ColeJessica B. LeeSusan LewisLori SilverbushAshley TuttleAllan Forsyth, Chairman Emeritus

Advisory BoardGregory Hines (in memoriam)Lori ChaseWill ChaseSarah JonesGail MarquisLori PettyPeter Yarrow

Advisory CommitteeCaryl ChinnCarolyn KesslerBecca ParishJill Rosengard-Hill

Office ManagerUchenna Bright

Social Work InternNicole Lebron



Organized by Groove With Me

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Ticket Info:  Tap & Tapas Entry Ticket, $153.75

Official Website: http://tapandtapas2009-upcoming.eventbrite.com