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    TAP DANCE SUBSTYLES Tap Dance is known as a favorite discipline because the students are making music with their feet. Students learn to improve their rhythm and co-ordination to energetic music. Tap dance concentrates on rhythm and timing‚ and requires interpretation of music through sound‚ creating regulated and controlled sounds through intricate footwork. More advanced levels of tap teach syncopation and more complex rhythms and combine a variety of styles of classical tap dance. Tap classes

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    Movie: TAP Assignment Submitted on October ___‚ 2014 "TAP" star Gregory Hines as Max Washington‚ the child of one of the best TAP dancers. He is an incredible dancer himself however has discarded his legacy to lead a life of wrongdoing. Presently he is out of jail and in the city once more‚ and his old partners need him to draw a big deal gem heist. Be that as it may upstairs over Sonny ’s‚ the shabby dance club his father used to run on Times Square‚ individuals who adore him have different

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    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

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    people in the tap industry. They both have made or are making their mark in tap dance. All just at very different times and in very different ways. But without them shaping the art form that is tap dance many believe that it would not be were we see it today. Michelle Dorrance started dancing at a ballet school that was founded by her mother. While she was there she studied all forms of dance and by the time she was 8 she was accepted into what is known now as the North Carolina Youth Tap Ensemble.

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    Tap dancing is a dance form where one would wear a shoe with hard metal soles and strike the floor to create a rhythm. However‚ there is more to tap dancing than just striking the floor‚ because anyone can strike their foot on a hard surface to create a noise‚ but it takes someone who is truly passionate and dedicated to learning and performing Tap dancing to be considered a member of the tap dance community. Also‚ in the tap community there are specific rules that one would need to follow‚ to understand

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    Scottish‚ and English dances. Tap dance began in the United States. The common belief was that slaves from Africa and indentured servants from Ireland created tap dancing by combining their own ethnic dances while working on plantations. It was said to have began as “Juba” which was an African slave dance. Current research suggests that tap did not stem from plantations but in crowded‚ urban environments such as New York City. The fusion of cultures that originated tap dance influenced American culture

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    Tap dancing has been called the "Second American Past time." But how was this dance created? How does it exist today? Read this article to learn about the history of tap dancing‚ and how it’s faring in modern times. Tap dance has a number of ancestors. It is a mixture of the English clog dance‚ Irish step dancing and African drum rhythms and dance movements. African dances that are directly linked to the nature of the tap dance are "juba" and "ring shouts‚" rollicking dances with a rhythmic

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    Tap Dance in America According to Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia‚ “ tap dance [is a] style of American theatrical dance‚ distinguished by percussive footwork‚ [which] marks out precise rhythmic patterns on the floor.” Also‚ “Tap is an exciting form of dance in which dancers wear special shoes equipped with metal taps. Tap dancers use their feet like drums to create rhythmic patterns and timely beats‚” Treva Bedinghaus‚ graduated from Holli Barron ’s School of Performing Arts and The

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    The Jazz form of dancing actually relates to several dance styles that are related‚ such as ballet‚ tap‚ and the African-American rhythms-and-dance styles. This dance form originated in the late 1800s. The trend took time to catch on‚ but eventually did by the mid 1900s. Till the 1950s‚ jazz dancing was largely referred to as tap dancing‚ because of the routines set to jazz music. The Jazz Age was characterized by the popularity of dance forms such as the Cakewalk‚ Charleston‚ Jitterbug‚ Black

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    Authentic jazz dance pertains to the early development of the jazz style in the 1920’s. During this time period‚ jazz dance wa influenced by African American cultures that were introduced in different dance movements. Some dances introduced to the population during this time includes the Lindy Hop and the Charleston. These movements included swing dance and flapper movements that were expressed in ballrooms and social settings. These elements were the original forms of jazz dance that influenced

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