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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.
Tap dance is an indigenous American dance form with roots that go back 300 years to Irish and West African musical and step dance traditions, which themselves have medieval and ancient roots. During the 17th – 19th centuries, it was primarily developed from European step dance forms, such as jigs and clogs. [8] .
25 Νοε 2015 · 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.
21 Ιουν 2019 · 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.
Learn how tap dance evolved from a mix of African, English, Scottish and Irish influences in the mid-1800s, and how it became a popular part of jazz music and theater culture. Discover the contributions of Master Juba, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and the Nicholas Brothers to the history of tap dance.
7 Ιουν 2021 · Tap dance is a performance art that relies on dancers creating catchy rhythms with their feet.
22 Νοε 2015 · Tap, which is the dance form of jazz music, has been around more or less since the late nineteenth century, but, unlike jazz, which has been the subject of many deep-browed books, it has a...
