Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by using the sounds of tap shoes striking the floor as a form of percussion. Two major variations on tap dance exist: rhythm (jazz) tap and Broadway tap. Broadway tap focuses on dance; it is widely performed in musical theater.
Where is tap dance performed?
Tap dance is an indigenous American dance genre that evolved over a period of some three hundred years. Initially a fusion of British and West African musical and step-dance traditions in America, tap emerged in the southern United States in the 1700s.
Who made tap dance?
When enslaved people couldn’t perform with their traditional drums, they found ways to make similar sounds with their feet and bodies to keep their culture alive. Tap is believed to have first originated in the U.S. from African and Irish slaves observing each other’s dances on Southern plantations in the 19th century.
When was tap dancing popular?
Tap dance is believed to have begun in the mid-1800s during the rise of minstrel shows. Under the stage name Master Juba, William Henry Lane became one of the few black performers to join an otherwise white minstrel troupe, and was influential in the development of tap dance.
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