#rhythm tap

[silvermoon424]

Rhythm Tap my absolute beloved

[nekonekoh]

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[silvermoon424]

🎶 Pirika pirilala popolina peperuto🎶

I now have both the Rhythm Tap and the Picot Pollon replicas from Ojamajo Doremi! Sharp is my favorite season and I love the item designs, so I’m glad Bandai is finally releasing high-quality replicas for adult collectors.

[silvermoon424]

Ojamajo Doremi 🎶🎼🎵

[theamazingmaddyas]

Hi Hi! Are you a tap dancer too?! Same here, and i love to meet and talk tap with others!

I am! I've been doing it for majority of my life; I was the kid who quit ballet to just focus on tap when I was about 8 or so.

I have much more of a background in rhythm tap, but I've done my fair share of broadway tap too! I do prefer rhythm tap though, I just love the sound and feeling of those multiple heel drops and the shaking of the floor.

(Can I say, you're user is on point, but tbh I can't tell if this is meant to be in character or out or both, lol)

[celiaelise]

I went to another tap class today! this one was a little harder, and they were working on a piece they'd started learning last week, so I was behind :/ I was mostly faking it as I followed along. (The Tuesday and Wednesday classes are separate, and I missed the first Tuesday one last week.) I would've been able to pick it up a lot faster if i wasn't so rusty. I feel like the teacher must have noticed what I was doing, (faking it) but I asked her afterward if she was okay with me being in both classes, and she said yes, so... Like last time, there were only two other people, but this time one of them was a boy! He was kind of a show-off, but all dancer boys I've ever met are. He held a tiny screwdriver in his hand all through class to adjust his taps with. Like... chill, dude. He wasn't obnoxious though. His name was John. The other was a girl named Shelby. I'm pretty sure I'm older than both of them. This is the piece we were learning: https://youtu.be/3X2reeoS6fI Minus the part where they started improv-ing and just messing around... The guy in red is the choreographer.

[oupacademic]

John Bubbles (19 February 1902-18 May 1986)

John Bubbles, born John Sublett (his nickname Bubber) in Louisville, Kentucky, is a jazz tap dancer, singer, and pianist. He is the undisputed father of rhythm tap, which dropped the heels on the offbeat, used the toes to accent, and extended rhythmic patterns beyond the usual eight bars of music.

Constance Valis Hill is the author of Tap Dancing America: A Cultural History. She recently composed a chronology of tap dance for the Library of Congress: “Tap Dance in America: A Twentieth-Century Chronology of Tap Performance on Stage, Film, and Media.”

Image credit: Scene from motion picture "Cabin in the Sky," featuring Duke Ellington and his Orchestra, and singer and dancer John Bubbles, 1943. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division, The New York Public Library. NYPL Digital Collections.

[ravenreverie]

Fifteen days left! Help!