Whatever you last saw—and heard—from the tap ensemble Dorrance Dance, it will not be what you see and hear next. Michelle Dorrance is protean. The New York-based tap choreographer draws from deep musical influences: Duke Ellington, Ravi Shankar, EDM, the blues, jazz, and always the musical traditions within tap, from Black midcentury masters’ scraping and sliding—their use of the whole foot—to Fred Astaire’s filigreed metallic notes to the woodier, complex beats of contemporary tap giant Savion Glover. Then she partners her chosen music with a genre—vaudeville, slapstick, Busby Berkeley–style spectacle, minimalist accumulation. No one is saying what direction she’ll take this time, but you can be sure of one thing—she will wed music to movement so the musical pattern appears in the choreographic design. It’s a marriage for the ages. It’s a perfect realization of tap dance. —Apollinaire Scherr