Powered by RebelMouse

Dance Teachers Trending

It’s National Tap Dance Day: Here’s One Way to Celebrate

Via YouTube

The celebration of tap dance legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson's birthday comes each year May 25, and the dance world goes wild for it! Since 1989 the day has been celebrated by tap lovers everywhere through music, movement and festivals.

Interested in joining the party this year? Here's one special way to celebrate NTDD in 2019.

Keep reading... Show less
Dance Teachers Trending

Tony Award–Winning Choreographer Danny Daniels Passes Away at 92

Photo courtesy of the Giagni family

Broadway choreographer Danny Daniels passed away on July 7 in Santa Monica, California, at age 92. Daniels was known for his choreography in musicals, such as Walking Happy, Annie Get Your Gun and The Tap Dance Kid, for which he won the 1984 Tony Award for best choreography.

Keep reading... Show less
Dance News

The Syncopated Ladies Light Up the Dance Floor Tomorrow Night in L.A.

Photo courtesy of the Syncopated Ladies

Tomorrow night, L.A.'s fiercest lady hoofers are lighting up the stage at the Ford Amphitheater in Hollywood. Chloé's Arnold's Syncopated Ladies present Syncopated Ladies: Live Concert—a one-night-only tap-dance extravaganza.

Keep reading... Show less
Get the print edition!
Dance News

Celebrate Tap Dance's Unsung Hero and Watch Two Restored Tap Documentaries

Duke Ellington (right) with John Bubbles in a scene from Cabin in the Sky (1943). Photo courtesy of the New York Public Library

Tomorrow night at 7 pm, the American Tap Dance Foundation will host a special performance at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Appel Room in honor of legendary jazz pianist and composer Duke Ellington. The program, aptly titled "Tap Ellington," will feature the Duke Ellington Center's Big Band and tap stars like Tony Waag, Brenda Bufalino, Sam Weber, Sarah Reich and Josette and Joseph Wiggan.

Keep reading... Show less
Dance News

3 Tap Trends in Michelle Dorrance's TIRELESS: A Tap Dance Experience

Joseph Wiggan and Josette Wiggan-Freund in Harmony: Tap in Motion. Photo by Christopher Duggan, courtesy of Jacob's Pillow

This summer at Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, tap program director Michelle Dorrance curated a mixed repertory program that showcased the best of the best in tap innovation. Four extremely diverse acts graced the stage of the Ted Shawn Theatre for a one-of-a-kind tap extravaganza. Here are three of our favorite tap trends that we hope to see much more of.

Keep reading... Show less
Giveaways

Win It! What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

Win It!

What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing

By Brian Seibert

Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 624 pages; $18

Keep reading... Show less
Get the print edition!
Dance News

Happy #NationalTapDanceDay

Max Pollak and TCYE Members dancing at a National Tap Dance Day celebration last year. Photo by Wallace Flores

Since 1989, tap dancers have been celebrating National Tap Dance Day (NTDD) on and around May 25, the birthday of tap dance legend Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. This year, prime events are happening in Philadelphia, New York and Chicago.

Keep reading... Show less
Dance News

Check Out Tap History’s Greatest Hoofers Dancing the Crossover Step

Photo courtesy of American Tap Dance Foundation

This month, Steps on Broadway tap teacher Claudia Rahardjanoto teaches a crossover step—a traditional rhythm tap step first performed by the great Bill "Bojangles" Robinson. The step is usually done three times with a break at the end, and is a great way to practice weigh shifts.

Here, some of tap history's greatest hoofers perform the crossover step.

Keep reading... Show less

mailbox

Get DanceTeacher in your inbox