The Gardiner Brothers, a tap dancing duo from Ireland, took to YouTube to share their latest video, tap dancing to "What is This Feeling?" from Wicked. The pair ...

Ebony Cross was only a third-grader when she made her two best friends take tap-dancing lessons with her. Now, at 17, Cross drags them to tap lessons half an hour early and does impromptu practice ...

Eighty-five-year-old Marian Steele's feet beat is racing. As her tap-clad shoe soles rebound snappily off the stage floor, they resound like intoxicating drumbeats. It's a joyful noise, a rap of the ...

We all marvel at the skill of great athletes and musicians. Most are born with above-average ability, but no matter how blessed they are with talent, they most likely had to practice, practice and ...

A newly composed concerto for orchestra and tap dancer showcases the beauty of tap, which is enjoying a bit of a revival. Composer Rob Kapilow wrote the part of the dancer like a drum solo, without ...

In 2005, Constance Valis Hill had a dream. In it, the late, great Gregory Hines was dancing, and Hill, ever the academic, was frantically trying to write down all his steps on paper. He urged her not ...

Oh, but this book is fun. Brian Seibert’s meticulously researched, breezily written history of tap dance, “What the Eye Hears,” shuffles and slides and Shim Shams across the page irresistibly; when ...

THINGS HE WANTED THE WORLD TO UNDERSTAND, THE GIFT AND THE VALUE OF BLACK BRILLIANCE. HEY. TELLING STORIES ABOUT BLACK HISTORY THROUGH MUSIC AND TAP DANCE. BREANA ALI HAS BEEN TAP DANCING SINCE SHE ...

Savion Glover has enamored audiences for over three decades now. Glover who was born in Newark, NJ was introduced to the world of tap dancing at the age of seven when his mother signed him up for ...