Tap

Tap dance is a style characterized by the use of metal taps on shoes striking on the floor to create rhythms while dancing. It teaches the dancers about musicality, rhythm and style. Tap is rhythm – rhythm is tap. Its origins are many and varied. Americans claim its origin dates from the African Jazz age. The Irish stake their claim to the Jigs and Step Dancing. The English relate back to northern Clog Dancers but whichever one chooses to believe, Tap is as popular today as it was in the heyday of the great Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly musicals.

Evergreen shows, 42nd Street and Crazy For You, and the more recently Stomp and Tap Dogs, highlight the great diversities of style and music in tapping.

We start teaching the IDTA tap syllabus in our theatre dance classes age 4+ and offer the opportunity for our student to take their IDTA performers examinations. We also offer an adult tap class.