Conceived of by one of the brightest stars in tap, this piece, humorous and sentimental, whimsical and heartbreaking, brings the excitement of percussive dance and contemporary music into full-scale collaboration. Performed on a custom-built sandbox stage and set to Tao’s contemporary score for piano and electronics, dancers explore the unique sonic potential of sand-dancing using such American dance traditions as Tap, Vernacular Jazz, and Lindy Hop.

Lee Upton is the author of fourteen books, most recently, Visitations: Stories, and Bottle the Bottles the Bottles the Bottles: Poems. Her work has appeared widely, including in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, World Literature Today, Bennington Review, and in three editions of Best American Poetry. A librettist and a literary critic as well as a poet and fiction writer, she is the Francis A. March Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Lafayette College.