Seattle’s Jessie Sawyers calls herself a visual musician. Her instruments are her tap shoes. “Tap can play that role as the percussion element. I have done a couple of gigs around town where literally ...

"I'm a tap dancer," said Jason Samuels Smith. "Some people would say a hoofer. Some people would say foot percussionist. Some people would say organic mathematician!" There are a lot of ways to ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Each of these steps makes up a distinct sound that must be perfected with a clarity similar to ...

The rattle of tap shoes fills the small black box theatre, as dancers step along to the swing jazz accompaniment. The tempo for this song, played by a pianist and a drummer hitting a high hat, is fast ...

Tap dancers speak their own secret language—and they speak with their feet. “That’s sort of [tap dancing’s] foundation,” Andrea Patella, BC ’21, the vice president of Columbia’s tap-dance group ...

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 ...

Flamenco, kathak, tap, body percussion, Irish step … they’re all percussive dance genres grounded in the universal language of rhythm, but they originate from very different traditions from around the ...