100 Years of Tap dance 

TZ4K32 Point taken ;)

Being a tap dancer in the 50’s and 60’s, we always wore high heels and precision was the style. Heck we even put taps on our point shoes!

Now that is really interesting! I always thought toe tap was a short lived craze in the 1930s - did not know it survived so long. Sadly it is not practiced any more today. Considering precision, I am looking back in nostalgia - "rhyhtm tap" or whatever it is called was not yet invented and tap dance still had to do something with entertaining the audience. My grandmother, who was a professional dancer till the mid 50s did routines on stairs, pianos, with roller skates and with shoes most girls today would not even try to walk with. It was an other era - today most tap dancers (considering themselves as "artists") do their stuff for some other tap dancers, but not for a broader audience. If you want to watch energetic, entertaining and well done tap dancing today, you have to go to a broadway show. That´s the place where real tap survived.

@@harrypeterwebern9222 My dance instructor would greatly disagree with you. And I do aswell. There is A LOT that goes into being a dancer. To suggest that we don't work as hard today is ludicrous. You are clearly uniformed as to what it takes to be a dancer & performer. And all of the hours spent just to perfect a single step! I apologize if my relpy seems rude but your comment got me into a rutt.

@ if i was a bug what do you to me while you are tap dancing

I agree. I'm 69. Tapped all my life. Still prefer heels to tap.

Agniakachan Thank you for your nice comment 😊

Hello, first thank you so much :) I've tried to use tap steps and technique according to each periods, but it's true, that tap dance steps from 30s can be applied nowadays and work amazing. Back in time, tap dancers such as Nicolas Brother were GREAT GREAT GREAT! We (personally me) have a lot of work to be at least half good as they were.

littlecicero actual reproduction of these past years

I think the different dances have different style and steps

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עדן חונדיה Thank you

I guess you all created that too a shame

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I love love tap dancing!!! And you did absolutely amazing!!

Thank you, nice to hear that. 😊💕

You're welcome!!! Thank you for reading my comment!!

It doesn't matter, everybody can dance btw. and in tap dancing you can choose - you can be dancer or musician or both :) good luck

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fearlesscrusader, it’s called a single toe wing, I’m a tap dancer and we certainly don’t try to imitate windmills.

Thank you! Yes I am :)

@ Ohh yess I was wondering because of your name :D

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Watch Newsies Broadway Production. Nothing boring about that.

I fully agree, too bad it was filmed like that

While tap dancing is about hearing the sounds of the feet, a lot about the evolution of tap dancing is style. If she just danced with her feet and without her arms, she wouldn't truly be showing the evolution of dance. By showing both her arms and her feet, she captured the difference between the styles.

Anthony Terry like nowadays?

Anežka Knotková I meant the 2000s (2000-2009) The 2010s would be nowadays

Anthony Terry ok, it's missing :D

Anežka Knotková sorry, I didn't mean to start a commotion but I was just saying. By the way I think you did great

Anthony Terry It's OK. Don't worry. I can take a critic. Thank you :)))