If you have never tapped or are getting back into it, here’s where to start! Learn and practice the basics of tap vocabulary like shuffles, flaps, digs, timesteps in simple rhythm combinations, and “across the floor” traveling steps.
If you have never tapped or are getting back into it, here’s where to start! Learn and practice the basics of tap vocabulary like shuffles, flaps, digs, timesteps in simple rhythm combinations, and “across the floor” traveling steps.
Step up your technique, rhythm and speed after you have mastered the basics. Explore new combinations, and put it together in short routines to music, learning to hear rhythms and time.
For over 35 years, Dennis has studied tap and performed in Colorado and the West with a wide variety of instructors and students.
He has acquired a good sense of the history of tap and brings its rhythmic, athletic style to his classes. In the last 15 years adding ballroom dance to his repertoire, he loves both performing and teaching.
This course draw from both the Broadway and the contemporary Rhythm-Tap styles and begin with a foot isolating warm-up, followed by rhythm and step-based skill building in both the center of the room and moving across the floor.
This is one of the most visceral and energetic dance forms around. It incorporates its moves with the sounds of the dancer’s tap shoes striking the dance floor. It often incorporates syncopation (unexpected or “off-beat” rhythms) and is thus closely related to Jazz dance.
Tap Dance Classes are offered by Century Ballroom for all ages and skill level.
Tap developed in 19th Century America from a mix of Irish clogging, African and African-American movements and vaudeville. Using special shoes with metal plates, the tap dancer can create multiple sounds and rhythmic patterns with their feet
Tap Dance classes are offered by Ms Carol's Center For Dance. CCD and its Staff is dedicated to building character through dance and providing quality dance instruction at affordable prices.
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