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Tap dance is a form of dance characterized by a tapping sound that is created from metal plates that are attached to both the ball and heel of the dancer's shoe. These metal plates, when tapped again...
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; several websites relate to the history of Tap dancing: ... The sources of tap dancing include the Irish solo step dance, the English clog dance, and African dance movements. ... TONY CURTIS : Tap dancing in the shadow of the masters...
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Tap dancing started with the Africans in early America who would beat out rhythms in their dances with brushing and shuffling movements of the feet. These dancers came to be called Levee Dancers throughout the south.
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Origin of tap dance. Irish populair dances danced with wooden "clogg" shoes. ENGLISH STYLE; A very light and elegant dancing style, quite classical in its way. SOFT SHOE; English style but with out taps. (Often done with wooden taps).
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Tap was created from combining elements of African drumming and dancing with the techniques of European clog and step dancing. The unique rhythms of jazz music distinguish American tap dance from all other kinds of dancing based on percussive footwork.
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Except for the Indians' ritual dances, the first indigenous American art dance is tap dancing, whose roots lie in spirited Irish and English jigs and clog dances and in the rhythmic African improvisations that immigrants and free Africans combined spontaneously during the 1840s. Characterized by rapidly tapping toes...
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