Tap Dancing Christmas Trees: Three Generations on Parade

The Tap Dancing Christmas Trees are a performance troupe based in Alameda, California. As the group’s name suggests, its members perform tap-dancing routines dressed as Christmas trees. The group originated from the DANCE/10 Performing Arts Center in Alameda when director and founder Pamm Drake led a holiday performance featuring tap-dancing Christmas trees cut down by a performer with a fake chainsaw. Popular demand led to the Tap Dancing Christmas Trees (intended to be a one-off performance) becoming a permanent fixture. The Trees have since performed annually at Christmas events around California and have appeared in the Hollywood Christmas Parade and on America’s Got Talent, among other accomplishments.

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Quote by Lori Cassels:

"I am also the executive producer of a 39 minute documentary on a unique Bay area dance troupe.

The Tap Dancing Christmas Trees of Alameda, have delighted audiences for over 30 years. Two years ago a friend was having dinner at my house and she was thrilled to tell us of her getting to go to Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade with the TDCT, along with her daughter, who is also a tree. They call themselves trees. She shared that there is also a grandmother, daughter and granddaughter tree.

I asked..."Is there a documentary about all this?" There is now."

The film was featured in San Francisco ArtHouse Film Festival.

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