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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.
This kind of tap dancing, also called rhythm tap, was employed by slaves in America. [21] Steve Condos developed an innovative rhythmic tap style that influenced the work of later tap dancers such as Gregory Hines and Savion Glover.
21 Ιουν 2019 · Tap dancers began collaborating with jazz musicians, incorporating improvisation and complex syncopated rhythms into their movement. The modern tap shoe, featuring metal plates (called “taps”) on the heel and toe, also came into widespread use at this time.
6 Ιαν 2024 · Like a rhythm born from resilience, tap dance emerged from the African-American communities in the United States. Stripped of their traditional drums, they found a new beat, a new voice, through the percussive power of their feet.
Tap dance is an indigenous American dance genre that evolved over a period of some three hundred years. Initially a fusion of British and West African musical and step-dance traditions in America, tap emerged in the southern United States in the 1700s.
Tap is a form of American percussive dance that emphasizes the interplay of rhythms produced by the feet. Fused from African and European music and dance styles, tap evolved over hundreds of years, shaped by the constant exchanges and imitations that occurred between the black and white cultures as they converged in America.
Tap dance emerged as a distinct form of dance in the early 20th century, with performers like Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and John Bubbles bringing it to the mainstream. The dance was characterized by its syncopated rhythms, fast footwork, and the use of metal plates on the bottom of the shoes to create sound. The Golden Age of Tap Dance