As a dancer, musician and painter, I feel the best way to describe my work is to think of color and rhythms. My main focus is rhythm, not because I tap dance but more because when I close my eyes in an empty room, I hear my heart beat. Or because when I hear a sound that repeats itself my brain starts to vibrate miles of colors and ideas, and then motion. Only when we open our eyes do we start to create from what already exists in the natural form. I see Urban Tap as a dream. Something that is offbeat, that lets you think of anything but the dance you're watching. Urban Tap belongs to hip-hop culture. Like tap dance, the lindy hop, break dance and rap, it's improvised and it's real. My journey started a long time ago but was born out of a city issue - New York City - a city where people from across the world find refuge, express their sensitivity in what is called art and unleash the need for communication through the universal rhythm of dance." Tamango