Tap Dancing Is

                         " TAP DANCING IS "

     "Tap Dancing Is" SOUND! Rhythmic sound made with the feet, and people love rhythm. Tap is a blend of cultures. The Irish Jig, the African Stomp, the Waltz Clog, Soft Shoe, Cake Walk, the Stair dance and the Boogie Woogie. "Tap Dancing Is"  Our American Folk Dance. 

Tap's contribution to the World of Dance is truly unique. Aside from Flamenco, every other dance form offers only something to look at, movement to observe; but in Tap Dancing there is also something to HEAR!

     "Tap Dancing Is" an Art formed in the 1800's. For the first three decades of the twentieth century Jazz rhythms of syncopated feet poured out of nightclubs, radio's, theaters, and movie screens.
Everybody wanted to see it, everyone wanted to hear it, everyone wanted to do it. It was High Style and the very staple of show business.

           During the war era with the great music revolutions, "Tap  Dancing Is" and became, Jazz, Ragtime, Bebop, and Swing. Today it has evolved to accommodate Classical, Pop, Hip-Hop, Rap, Country, you name it. Tap dancers are laying down some Iron to it.

     These new blends of music play a tremendous role in the evolution of Tap, then and now. The entertainment world is ready to move ahead into a more sophisticated future, all set to Taps syncopated beat! "Tap Dancing Is" and has been a dance entertainment form across the country and around the world that a lot of people love to hear and see. It's captivating Rhythms won't let you go. You can't sit still. It makes you want to get up and try it.

     There were and are so many rising stars, male and female, keeping Tap popular on the stage and screen.  There were Flash Acts and Vaudeville acts of all kinds, each featuring some kind of Tap. Tap dancings rising stars that kept Tap dancing exciting to watch. As the years rolled on television shows, documentaries and other variety and talk shows featured Tap and kept it in the public eye. Dance teachers and performers have as Tap Dancing Great "Maceo Anderson" of the "Four Step Brothers" did, they went with the Tap Dancers Code: Change another's steps before you use them! Today, in my opinion, the Direct-Steal is In! Pass it on and keep "Tap" Living and Growing World-Wide.---5-6-7-8
Dancingly Mr.Shuffles

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