You won't believe this performance! Tap is a beautiful style of dance that takes major skill to master. But when it's done right, it's something you could watch for hours on end. All the clicks and ...
When you listen to dancer Marshall L. Davis Jr. talk about his tap shoes, it sounds like Michael Jordan talking about his sneakers. A shoe is just a shoe until somebody like Davis steps into it. How ...
Tap dancer Melinda Sullivan and jazz pianist Larry Goldings practice their musical performance together at Goldings' home studio. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) In a quiet backyard nestled ...
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 ...
Tap performer, teacher and innovator Alfred Desio, a multitalented artist who began dancing at age 3 and gained his greatest fame for developing a method of electronically transforming the sound of ...
On January 31, 2022, Billie Mahoney passed away at the age of 94. Below, read KCUR's original profile on this Kansas City icon, from 2016. For two decades, The Billie Mahoney Dance Troupe has riffed, ...
“We have a flat tire,” says Jamie Presnall, the band’s percussionist (she dons a pair of tap shoes to provide rhythmic flair). “And we just discovered that our tour van’s spare is also flat. This has ...
Tap dance, a young student says with a giggle, is “a bit louder than ballet.” Wearing leotards and pale pink tights, she and three other girls skip across the floor at a community center in Albany, ...
WESTLAKE, Ohio -- A Westlake fitness instructor has tapped into a specialty shoe cover market just for seniors who still want to get their boogie on, even if they can’t get up and dance anymore. “When ...