Final Slideshow

–is unfortunately a Soundslides slideshow, so can’t post up.  So in lieu of having the audio/visual combination here, I’ve collected some of my favorite photos from the slideshow.  These photos are all  video stills; they’re from Karin’s “Swan Song” performance that I wrote about below, in which she “handed down” an old favorite rotine to her young protege Kathy Callahan.  Because they are taken from video the quality isn’t stellar– there’s quite a bit of intricate movement, hands and arms and feet, in tap dancing, and that means blurriness when you try to freeze the frame.  But I actually like it in these pictures.  There’s so much energy in the stills, and Karin and Kathy look so happy.  It was nice to use these images to illustrate the audio of Karin talking about passing down choreography, and tradition in dance.  Below, images of Karin and Kathy performing together an Ernest Carlos routine that Karin says “changed her life” when she first learned it, at age 10.