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Tap & Tapas
Benefit
On April 20, 2009 an all-star
team of NYC's top chefs cooked up a delightful feast! Govind Armstrong , , ,, , Michael Laiskonis , , Bradford Thompson, and Jonathan Waxman made
everyone's mouth water!
Photos: Ron Holtz Photography
(Click Thumbnails to see
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 Savion Glover performed with one of Groove With Me's Advanced Tappers!
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| Babycakes |
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Le Bernardin |
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Barbuto |
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Perilla |
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The Spotted Pig |
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in the Green Room... |
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| Preparing to dance |
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Savion & the Ballerinas |
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Ashley & her girls |
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Cutie-pies! |
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Craft |
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Tabla |
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| The North Fork Table & Inn |
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Abby & Tom Colicchio |
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Janae made a speech! |
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Honoree Jonelle Procope |
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Lil' Ballerinas |
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Basic Tappers |
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| Intermediate Tappers |
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Savion & Bobbi |
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Advanced Tappers |
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Live auction! |
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Finale! |
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Time to go... |
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| Le Bernardin |
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| Barbuto |
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| Harold Dieterle and his team from Perilla shared Taylor bay scallops with pickled green papaya mignonette. |
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| The Spotted Pig |
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| Groove With Me's girls had pizza in the Green Room! |
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| This ballerina is getting ready to dance! |
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| Savion Glover |
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| Ashley Tuttle, a Groove With Me Board Member, prepares her ballerinas for their performance. |
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| So much love! |
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| Tom Colicchio and his Craft team prepared crispy pork cheeks, ramp, and radish kimchee, cara cara orange. |
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| Floyd Cardoz of Tabla created Bombay "Ragda", tamarind chutney and chick pea confetti. |
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| Claudia Fleming of The North Fork Table & Inn and a former member of Groove With Me's Board of Directors, prepared strawberry rhubarb cobbler with white chocolate cream. |
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| Groove With Me's Founder & Executive Director Abby Rosin poses with Craft's Tom Colicchio.
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| Teen dancer, Janae gave a lovely speech. |
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| Groove With Me honored Jonelle Procope, President and CEO of The Apollo Theater Foundation. |
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| Our ballerinas kicked off the dance portion of the evening. |
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| Basic Tap showed off their moves. |
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| Intermediate Tap danced to Boombastic and they were fantastic! |
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| Savion Glover danced with one of our Advanced Tappers. |
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| Advanced Tap had so much fun! |
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After the performance, we held a live auction for items Groove With Me desperately needs.
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| For our Grand Finale, everyone who participated in the evening's festivities got on stage for a final bow. |
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| Thanks for coming! |
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