"I'm a tap dancer," said Jason Samuels Smith. "Some people would say a hoofer. Some people would say foot percussionist. Some people would say organic mathematician!" There are a lot of ways to ...
Flashes of footwork and a flurry of sound filled the Debbie Allen Dance Academy as tap dancers gathered for their weekly improvisational jam session. Dancing on and in between the beat, dancers spoke ...
THINGS HE WANTED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND, THE GIFT AND THE VALUE OF BLACK BRILLIANCE. HEY. TELLING STORIES ABOUT BLACK HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC AND TAP DANCE. BREANA ALI HAS BEEN TAP DANCING SINCE SHE ...
Join the joyous celebration of Mostly Holidays! Enjoy live tap dance, music, and vocals at Missouri Baptist University.
Jersey Tap Fest is a dance festival that features world-class tap dancers, faculty, and an exceptional extravaganza to celebrate the life and legacy of tap dance in New Jersey. Since its founding in ...
Eighty-five-year-old Marian Steele's feet beat is racing. As her tap-clad shoe soles rebound snappily off the stage floor, they resound like intoxicating drumbeats. It's a joyful noise, a rap of the ...
Who knew that Baltimore had such happy feet? Three icons of tap dance who were famous nationwide — known colloquially as Baby Laurence, Buster Brown and Hawk — were born in Charm City and first ...
Although tap dancing has fallen out of play somewhat in modern film, it is still very much alive onstage and is one of the most popular forms of dance taught at studios across the nation, including ...
Audiences have seen the once-trivialized art of tap dancing reclaim its powerful African American identity, deepen its expressive potential and hone its speed and intricacy to unprecedented levels.
Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. December 19, 2017 kicked off the season of award-winning tapper, Michelle Dorrance ...