TAP DANCE

 TAP DANCE

It is a different dance form that is performed by the tap sound of shoes hitting the floor. Tap dance started in the US in the early 19th century. Two styles were famous by the late 19th century, a quick style in the wooden sole shoe also called buck and wing and soft shoe a smooth leather shoe style. The style grew unitedly from metal plates by joining to both the ball and heel of the shoes. The solid plates when strikes against the floor make the sound and hence the dancers are also considered as musicians. Many forms of dance mixed with tap dance and after a lot of experiments jazz dance come from tap dance as these two have many styles. That time US President George Bush chose 25th May his Date of birth to celebrate that day as the National Tap Dance Day on 7th November 1989. The dancers know better how to improvise as it is required in jazz dance and tap dance also. Tap dance can be performed with or without the music, the one without the music called a Capella tap dancing. Hoofers who don't use much upper body hands as dance moves and just dance with footwork being close to the floor. It requires little more attention from group dance to have the sound as the correct speed requires matching each other. The work on tap dance was later much designed by Steve Condos, an excited rhythmic tap dance style. Condos took his knowledge of tap dance to Marshall L. Davis Jr and it’s the year 1950s when Tap dance was no longer a favourite dance due to the altering style. But by the end of the 1980s it came back and now this dance not only remains for entertainment. 

Article by: Aakash Tyagi