Tap Dancers


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The Basics of Tap Vocabulary Check out these important tap basics below! Stamp - put your foot on the ground with weight Stomp - put your foot on the ground without weight Hop - jump up and down on one foot Leap - jump from one foot to the other Slap - brush the ball of your foot forward and down without weight


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Tap. Tap dance is a percussive style that originated in the United States in the 1700s and is practiced using shoes with metal plates to create sound. Our tap classes draw from both Broadway and contemporary Rhythm-Tap styles and emphasize precision and musicality. Classes begin with foot isolating warm-ups, progress to rhythm and step-based.


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Free tap dance dictionary with videos and written descriptions with counts. Make it easy to learn any tap step! I take great care of my customers and I always get back to them quickly if they have a problem or an issue. UNITED TAPS. 1-888-210-1075. [email protected]. MAIN MENU: Home. About Us. WE OFFER: Dictionary/Syllabus. Lessons.


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Spank. (brush back, backward tap, backward brush) to execute stand left reason forward position swing right back striking ball of foot on floor. Scuff. (heel brush, heel scuff) regular: Execute with working leg and back position, swing it forward. Striking back edge of heel and passing foot ends in raised position. Time step.


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SWITCHING WING. Switching Wing Toe. THIS is why you don't lean forward for a pullback (pick-up, grab-off) GO TO TOP. Free tap dance dictionary with videos and written descriptions with counts. Make it easy to learn any tap step!


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Tap Dance Dictionary Top 100 A ALEXANDER (Broadway, Shirley Temple) - &1&2&3&4 or a1 a2 a3 a4 - flap HEEL heel SPANK heel TOE heel B BACK ESSENCE - &1&2 or a1 a2 - spank step (cross behind) STEP step Double Back Essence - a1&a2 - spank step (cross behind) FLAP step BOMBERSHAY (Bombershe, Toe Clip) - 1&a - step SPANK DIG


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Tap Definitions 1 Sr. Team 2008-2009 Accelerando Accent Active Foot Ad Lib Arsis Back Flap Back Flap, Heel Drop Back-Front Ball Beat Ball Change Ball Tap Bandy Twist Bar. Same as "Tap Ball." To dance as one wishes without regard to a set pattern of movements-to improvise. Weak beat, or the unaccented part of a measure of music.


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Dictionary of Music The Hipster's Swing Dictionary THEATREDANCE HOMEPAGE A complete glossary of tap dance, including names of steps and combinations, and descriptions of the movements associated with tapping.


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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. A Brief History of Tap Dance


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Tap dance is a performance style of dance that uses rhythm, timing and precision to create movement in a choreographed sequence. It is a form of jazz dance that originated in New Orleans. Its popularity blossomed after being featured in the Broadway musical A Streetcar Named Desire.


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Tap Dance Syllabus LEVEL 1 Essential steps are in teaching order and optional steps are in alphabetical order. ESSENTIAL STEPS Toe (flat) Heel Toe Toe Heel Heel Stamp Stomp Step Touch Toe- Tip (or just Toe) Dig (Heel) Step Heel Dig Toe (Heel Toe) Dig Toe Step Heel Hop Jump Chug Brush Flap Flap Heel Flap Ball Change Spank (Brush Back, Draw, Pull)


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Dance Spirit "Hoofer Status" Article Article with opinions about the difference between a hoofer and a tap dancer. Includes the opinions of tap masters Derick K. Grant, Michela Marino Lerman, and Jason Samuels Smith. Article authoried by Maggie McNamara and published in Dance Spirit Magazine in June of 2015. More About Tap Dancing


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Dance for PD® Tap Dance Terminology Tap Step Flap /fa-lap/ =brush, ball (with weight) Change rhythm: Flap /flap/ = brush, ball (with weight) Shuffles = tick tock (no weight) Change rhythm: Shuffle = tick tock (no weight) Summer 2021 Counts Description 1, 2 Brush forward and drop on ball with transfer of weight.


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TAP TERMINOLOGY Ball Change: Two quick changes of weight from one ball of the foot to the other. Brush: Striking of the ball of the foot or the toe tap against the floor. This is usually done in a direction. A backward brush is called a spank. Buck / Chug: Forward movement emphasizing the heel drop with weight on the same foot. Buffalo:


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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. Early history


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Lyn Cramer leads you through tap steps from A-Z. In this tap dictionary you will learn tap steps and tap terminology. Different tap teachers have different.