Tap dance is as much a part of Americana as blue jeans, barbecue or the Statue of Liberty. While not as popular today as it was during its “Golden Age” from 1920 to 1940, the American art form has ...

The sound of tap shoes on Shore Cultural Centre’s hard wooden floors became highly apparent upon walking through the doors of The Cleveland Tap Dance Conservatory. The new dance group, started by ...

Around the dawn of the new millennium, Chicago tap dancer Bril Barrett began to share his love of tap dance with his little brother and other local Black kids at the Sammy Dyer School of the Theatre ...

Although Heidi Malnar has studied classical ballet and has “lots of respect for it,” she leans more toward what she calls “the noisier side” of the dance medium. More specifically, tap dancing. An ...

The guy that wrote that “Tap Your Troubles Away” song was on to something. Despite the racket that it conjures up, it’s the very definition of “joyful noise”—a spirited rat-a-tat that elicits a smile ...

These ladies are on tap to show what they can do. On May 11, The Lady Hoofers Tap Ensemble will don their dancing shoes for a performance at the Harold Prince Theatre at the Annenberg Center for the ...

A beloved character in the comedy musical Funny Girl is showing Dallas what tap dance is all about. Broadway Dallas is presenting Funny Girl through Aug. 18 at the Music Hall at Fair Park. Directed by ...

After several weeks of lessons, middle school students from Academy Prep Center received their tap dance shoes. Students try on their tap shoes for the first time before they start class at the ...

The Marshall L. Davis, Sr. African Heritage Cultural Arts Center’s (AHCAC) Winds of Heritage Dance Company “Revelations in Rhythm,” a live performance celebrating African rhythms and American tap ...