Love to Tap Dance

A blog dedicated to everything tap!

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Happy National Tap Dance Day!!

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Nothing makes me happier than my new Jason Samuels Smith tap shoes that I got for Christmas today.

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Saturday is for sharing so here’s @kerrywee1 giving us some great morning tapping! 🤗👍👏 #tapdance #tap #tapdancing #tapdancer #dance #dancer #dancing #saturdaymorning …………. #Repost @kerrywee1 (@get_repost) ・・・ Lil of this for your Saturday morning until the next time I get into the studio with my 👞🤓

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An essay to no one in particular about tap dancing

I love tap dancing. At first glance when I say that sometimes it feels so random, almost like I know someone’s gonna be suprised when they hear that statement. Like really? Tap dancing? But yeah really tap dancing.

I fell in love when I was a kid. Drawn in by a Sesame Street episode about tap and I knew I’d found it. You know THAT it. That special it that becomes your thing, the thing you love for no other reason than you’re just destined to love it because it’s you. I never stopped thinking about tap from that day forward but here’s the kicker…I never started tapping. I suppressed it too embarrassed to be a “guy that tap danced.” It’s sad really, knowing what it feels like to know the dream/desire you’re supposed to be doing and not do it. Little kid out there who wants to tap dance….DO IT.

Anyways fast forward to college and I decided I had to tap dance and I did! I took the plunge and signed for a class for my own sanity, and the moment I clicked that online class sign up was truly the moment I broke free. I never looked back since. Check part two for more tap musings.

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Thanks for sharing @clos775

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In the past year, I have been proud to say that I have co-founded a tap dance company in Nashville. We are the Nashville Tap Experiment, and we are an eight-member ensemble made up of tap dancers from all different walks of life and different experience and skill levels.

On Saturday, three of us finally got the opportunity to show what the Experiment can do together, and we performed as a group for the first time at the annual Southern Festival of Books! It was a defining moment for us! It was a proud moment for me personally, because I put so much into making this company work, and while it hasn’t been easy at times, we finally got an idea of what we are capable of and how much we can accomplish together. We also got an idea of how much more growing we have to do, as a group and as individuals.

I hope you enjoy this video of our performance!

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This is awesome! Congrats on your first performance together :)

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Tap Fab 4 is back… #teamslide @dancerpalooza // choreo- @michaelminery dancing with- @kaiscanlan_ @avaheartstap @sarahbamford

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Happy National Dance Day Tappers!!

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“Despacito” - Syncopated Ladies

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Hi :) Your blog is awesome! Your love of tap and celebrating and promoting this great art form is doing so much for its popularity and longevity. I've started a website about women in tap (Footsteps and Stories on Wordpress) and would really appreciate your thoughts on it. Thanks so much & God Bless

Just got a chance to check this out! Awesome blog. Everyone go look!

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Chaz Wolcott - SYTYCD Season 14 audition

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Shake it Out, Fitzsimmons Dance Factory

1st Place Teen Large Group Critics Choice Award Age 14 Tap League of Champions Rochester 2017

Music: Shake It Out (Acoustic) - Florence + The Machine

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Happy National Tap Dance Day

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I choreographed this tap piece to Taylor Swift’s “Style” from her album, 1989.

My senior year at a fine arts high school I severely broke my ankle. I ended up having surgery and thought I wouldn’t be able to continue pursuing my dreams of dancing. Now 7 years later, my ankle is doing great, I have a degree, and I’m getting back to being healthy through exercise, a balanced diet, and dancing once again to try to make my dreams of dancing for a career come to life! From the extreme heartbreak of thinking I’d lost my life’s passion that I began as a 3 year old, to having to take a year off of college for rehabilitating my ankle, to transferring to three different schools, my passion for dancing, performing and choreographing hasn’t faltered….and I believe that means something!

My biggest dream of all dreams would be to perform with Taylor Swift on tour. I’ve had this dream for the past 6 years and I know that it’s a very lofty goal, but why not dare to dream?! I’ll regret not pursuing my dreams and passion later in life, and what better time to try than the present! My passions are dancing and traveling- so to be able to perform while traveling the world with my favorite artist (whom I respect as a person and an artist) would be the ultimate of all dreams coming true! Here’s to this 26 year old working hard to try to accomplish her dreams and not letting the fear of what others may think stand in her way! Here goes nothing! :)

For this piece I really focused on choreographing to the different rhythms found within the layers of the song and also creating my own to contrast! This isn’t a perfect performance by any means, but just a recording of me practicing in my home!

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Pop Dance Life’s Episode 5 edition of the, “If You Don’t Know, Now You Know” dance history segment featuring the late, great, Gregory Hines! 

Gregory Hines was a tap dancer, actor, singer and true cross-over star. He’s one of a select few who have found great success on both the Broadway stage and in Film & Television and remained a humble, genial artist throughout his life. If you don’t know, now you know! *End 📸 of Gregory Credit: Rose Eichenbaum from her book, “Masters of Movement” **Correction: Gregory Hines passed away August 9th, 2003.

Submitted by: Pop Dance Life

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