Tap Dance History

Coming to the end of our class, we have learned many dance styles of Indian dance. India is a country with long history. Indian dance styles have been developing with its cultural background as well. Bollywood is one of the biggest movie industries in the world. Bollywood cannot succeed without Indian traditional dance. South Asian Dancing is quite different than Western styles. Kathak is one of the most famous Indian dance styles. Tap Dance is also very famous in the world, which is originally from America. I have learned Tap Dance for a semester and I like it very much. I hope I can combine my own experience with the knowledge what I learned in this class. Comparing different dance styles: Kathak and Tap Dance.
Kathak is one of the ten major
It is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes knocking the floor as a form of percussion. Two major types of tap dance exist: jazz tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely performed in musical theater. Jazz tap focuses on musicality, and practitioners consider themselves to be a part of the jazz tradition. The sound is made by shoes that have a metal "tap" on the heel and toe. The sound is variable depends on which part you knocking. Compare to Kathak, the history of Tap Dance is way shorter. Tap dance has begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows. As the minstrel shows began to decline in popularity, tap dance moved to the increasingly popular stage (Hinkley, 1). During the 1930s-tap dance mixed with Lindy Hop. "Flying swing outs" and "flying circles" are Lindy Hop moves with tap footwork. In the mid- to late 1950s, the style of entertainment varied. Jazz music and tap dance declined, while rock and roll and the new jazz dance emerged. What is now called jazz dance evolved out of tap dance, so both dances have many moves in common, but jazz changed separately from tap dance to become a new form in a different