Sarah Reich
{{Short description|American tap dancer and choreographer}}
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| name = Sarah Reich
| image =Sara Reich wth Postmodern Jukebox 2015-06-20.jpg
| alt = Photo of Sara Reich back-stage before a show
| caption = Sarah moments before a show.
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|05|24}}
| birth_place = Culver City, California, U.S.
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| occupation = Performer, choreographer, instructor
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| website = {{URL|http://www.sarahreich.com/|www.sarahreich.com}}
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Sarah Reich (born May 24, 1989) is a tap dance instructor, choreographer and performer. She is best known as a featured artist for Postmodern Jukebox, touring the U.S. and Europe in 2015 and 2016. In addition to performing tap-percussion solos with numerous featured vocalists, her rendition of a Star Wars medley was featured in [[Slate (magazine)|
Slate]] and People magazines. She appears alongside vocalist Sara Niemietz in London, for an MTV, Postmodern Jukebox feature shoot, covering "Ex's & Oh's" in 2016.
Featured in Dance Spirit Magazine's “20 Hot Tappers Under 20” in 2009, Reich is widely recognized in professional dance circles. She has performed on American reality television show So You Think You Can Dance as a member of Chloe Arnold's Syncopated Ladies, who won the eleventh season's dance crew battle, and also previously appeared as a guest performer in the eighth season with Jason Samuels Smith's tap company Anybody Can Get It (ACGI). In 2015, The New York Times, Gia Kourlas, praised Reich's presentation at Tony Waag's "Tap Forward" at the Tap City festival.
Early life
Sarah Reich was born in Culver City, California. Her mother is Mexican and her father is Hungarian. She started at age five to dance tap. When she was 12 years old she danced salsa in clubs with her sister. Then she mixed tap steps with popular salsa and merengue steps.{{cite news|title=Sarah Reich presentará en el país un tap con mucha influencia latina|url=http://www.nacion.com/ocio/farandula/Sarah-Reich-presentara-influencia-latina_0_1178882175.html|newspaper=La Nación|accessdate=13 September 2017|language=Spanish}}
References
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{{cite news|title=This Cover Version Of Elle King's 'Ex's & Oh's' Will Blow You Away |url=https://www.mtv.co.uk/news/h837fz/this-cover-version-of-elle-kings-exs-ohs-will-blow-you-away|access-date=15 April 2016|publisher=MTV|author1=Mike Pell|date=12 April 2016|location=United Kingdom}}
{{cite magazine|author1=Sharan Shetty|title=The Tap Awakens in This Terrific Dance Cover of the Star Wars Soundtrack|url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/12/29/postmodern_jukebox_tap_dances_the_star_wars_soundtrack_with_sarah_reich.html|accessdate=15 April 2016|magazine=Slate|date=29 December 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415093950/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/12/29/postmodern_jukebox_tap_dances_the_star_wars_soundtrack_with_sarah_reich.html|archivedate=15 April 2016|quote=The folks at Postmodern Jukebox have a new video out, but this time around there’s no old-timey cover of a new-fangled tune. Instead, we get a dance—specifically, a tap dance, one that sees renowned tapper Sarah Reich shuffle and shimmy her way through the Star Wars soundtrack}}
{{cite web|last1=Weingarten|first1=Rachel|title=Postmodern Jukebox: Behind the Retro-Pop YouTube Sensation|url=http://parade.com/397615/rachelweingarten/back-to-the-future-with-scott-bradlee-and-postmodern-jukebox/|website=Parade|date=15 May 2015 |accessdate=4 November 2015}}
{{cite news|last1=Kourlas|first1=Gia|title='Tap Forward' Showcases Contemporary Tap|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/10/arts/dance/tap-forward-showcases-contemporary-tap.html?_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=9 July 2015 |accessdate=4 December 2015}}
{{cite news|last1=Duckett|first1=Jodi|title=REVIEW: Postmodern Jukebox off the charts with energetic, retro fun|url=http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/music/mc-review-postmodern-jukebox-off-the-charts-with-energetic-retro-fun-20151113-post.html|newspaper=The Morning Call|accessdate=4 December 2015|quote=The concert had an almost vaudevillesque variety show feel, with a lot of action on stage and performers – especially bassist/singer Casey Abrams from “American Idol,” tambourine man Tim Kubert and tap dancer Sarah Reich, getting silly at times and emcee LaVance Colley directing things with wit and style.}}
{{cite news|last1=Akabas|first1=Lev|title=A Show and a Chat: Postmodern Jukebox at the State Theatre|url=http://cornellsun.com/2015/11/09/a-show-and-a-chat-postmodern-jukebox-at-the-state-theatre/|newspaper=The Cornell Daily Sun|accessdate=4 December 2015}}
{{cite magazine|author1=ALEX HEIGL|title=Tap Dance and Star Wars Combine with 'The Tap Awakens' from Postmodern Jukebox|accessdate=16 April 2016|magazine=People|date=20 July 2015|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160416202657/http://www.people.com/article/postmodern-jukebox-star-wars-tap-awakens|archivedate=16 April 2016|quote=Was there a Darth Bojangles?|url=http://www.people.com/article/postmodern-jukebox-star-wars-tap-awakens}}
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Category:American female dancers
Category:American people of Hungarian descent
Category:American people of Mexican descent