Tap dance (or tap) is a form of dance that uses the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion; it is often accompanied by music. [1] Tap dancing can also be performed with no musical accompaniment; the sound of the taps is its own music.

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Tap dance, style of dance in which a dancer wearing shoes fitted with heel and toe taps sounds out audible beats by rhythmically striking the floor or any other hard surface. It originated in the United States through the fusion of several ethnic percussive dances.

Since 1969, Priscilla and Dana's School of Dance has provided professional dance instruction in the Kansas City, Missouri metropolitan area. We offer COMBO AND TECHNIQUE classes in tap, ballet, pointe, modern, lyrical, jazz and hip hop for children ages 3 and up.

2021年6月7日 · Though tap dance has its origins in the seventeenth century, it became well-established in America by the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tap dance is known for its syncopated, catchy beats and improvisational choreography, which links it to jazz music.

2024年1月11日 · Characterized by the sounds of specialized shoes tapping on the dance floor, tap dance is a unique dance style because the percussion and the beat of the accompanying music are up to the dancer in most cases.

There are seven main types of tap dance: Broadway tap, buck and wing, classical tap, hoofing, jazz tap, rhythm tap, and soft-shoe. As with all types of dance, there are subgenres within these categories.

2019年6月21日 · Tap dance originated in the United States in the early 19th century at the crossroads of African and Irish American dance forms. When slave owners took away traditional African percussion instruments, slaves turned to percussive dancing to express themselves and retain their cultural identities.

2015年11月25日 · Tap dance is the original street dance. In the 1930s, tap dancers would gather on city street corners to trade steps and challenge one another, in a precursor to the B-boy battles of later decades. Philadelphia had a particularly vibrant dance culture.

2021年5月9日 · Correspondent Faith Salie explores the history of tap dancing as an art form born of diverse dance traditions brought to America, which has recently experienced an encore of popularity thanks...