Senior students have the chance to travel Tap Festivals held in key cities throughout North America to train with famous Tap Masters and perform for international audiences.
Let your feet do the talking! Tap creates elaborate rhythms and joyful music.
Dancers are trained in various styles including swing, classic and street tap. Specialized teachers who have danced professionally and continue to undergo their own training development pass on their expertise daily to provide unique results.
Senior students have the chance to travel Tap Festivals held in key cities throughout North America to train with famous Tap Masters and perform for international audiences.
Graduates from these programs have gone on to professional careers performing in Broadway Musicals, the Charlottetown Festival and the Tapestry Tap Company, North America’s only full-time tap company.
Class Objectives:
The Richmond Academy of Dance is internationally recognized for its outstanding training programs encouraging individuality and attention to detail. These principles reflect the Academy’s aim to ensure its students’ proper development as both dancers and as individuals.
Professional and motivated teachers are committed to providing the highest possible quality of dance education for all our students. The Academy's multi-disciplined focus is unique to the Lower Mainland as it produces dancers of the highest standard set to become Canada’s newest young professionals in the performing arts world.
The Richmond Academy is a member of the BC Dance Educator’s Association, Richmond Chamber of Commerce, West Coast Tap Dance Collective, BC Alliance for Arts and Culture, Richmond Arts Council, Canadian Dance Assembly, BC Artist Registry, Candance.org and has teachers who have obtained Registered Teacher Status with various international organizations including the Royal Academy of Dance.
This exciting style has dancers wearing special shoes equipped with metal taps. Tap dancers use their feet to create rhythmic sounds and timely beats. Tap is excellent for developing musicality and coordination.
This class is a high energy class in which feet become musical instruments. Tapping rhythms are set to all different eras of music from the classic to the trendy drum beats of today’s tap style.
Tap/Jazz Combo classes are for students in kindergarten, and grades 1 and 2 at school. Each Combo class consists of half an hour Jazz and half an hour Tap.
Students will learn how to count and understand various beats within music and by doing so they will be able to grasp the relationship between the sounds they create with their feet and the music.
Discover your inner musician while learning the technique of sound quality, rhythm and style
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