Standing beside him is dancer Melinda Sullivan, who soon strikes the glam metal of her tap shoes on a 27-by-35-inch piece of wood, providing a steady, playful metronome alongside the melodica.

Their routine was set to the hip-hop song "Ratata," and featured complex turns and acrobatic moves that are highly difficult to execute in tap shoes. The girls also competed in a large group ...

John “Mr. Tap” Williams grew up in New York, where dance was always a part of his family and environment. “I remember when I was growing up, to preserve the soles of the shoes, they had those tap tap ...

“This is my 10-year-old self. It’s like riding a bike. That’s why my husband bought me tap shoes, and I put them on. I started doing all the things I remembered.” “You’ll ...

Oh, to be sure, you don't need tap shoes. I'm just gonna wear them 'cause I have them. Okay, so I'm gonna show you the full step and then I'm gonna it down for you. [tap shoes clicking] Okay ...

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.

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 ...

The two sisters also have their own brand of tap shoes and boots. Chloé said they use a lot of shoes each year, so it is helpful to have access to free shoes. Their situation was very different ...

After several weeks of lessons, middle school students from Academy Prep Center received their tap dance shoes. Students try on their tap shoes for the first time before they start class at the ...

TAMPA, Fla. — Tyrah was ready to tap dance. Like, really tap dance. In real tap shoes. For weeks, the sixth-grader and her classmates at Academy Prep Center of Tampa had practiced tap in socks ...

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