You know how, when you go swimming, your body remembers the water for a long time? After I watched the tap-dance show Neo Soul Ties, my body kept thrumming with rhythmic excitement. Neo Soul Ties is exhilarating!

And, choreographed by Toronto artist Victoria Miller, it’s tapdancing like I’ve never seen it before.

Along with an excellent three-piece band (keyboards, electric bass guitar, and trumpet), four extraordinary dancers lean into tap’s jazz influence. Making space for a whole lot of improvisation, the dancing is often surprisingly lyrical for tap, incorporating sweet, sweet slides and hesitations, as well as insanely fast, sometimes sharply percussive, footwork that uses every surface on the dancers’ shoes to make noise.

The vibe is celebratory, congenially competitive. And you can’t help but get involved, whooping at astonishing feats and feet.

Forty-five minutes fly by.

Then you sink into the afterglow.