TAP HEAT Short Film 

you're right. we shud keep sharing around! :D this is so cool!

Danny Daniels. The legend.

And they should be dancing on wood floors!

Totally agree. Been a dancer (pro) most of my life & worked with Daniels - studied w/the best. Dapron, Kahn, Eddie Brown, Duncan. This shows everything awful about the hijacking of tap. My main objection is that this slam-bam tap is all anger and crudeness. Tap inherently is the most joyous form of dance, but it’s been robbed of that. The street style is just percussive sloppiness and rage. Very few of these people can dance other than slam out sounds. They tend to dance with their legs apart and are very heavy. Most important, this is incredibly boring for any audience to watch. It’s been turned into a competitive sport without artistry. Worse, many of these hoofers, never having done anything else, aren’t able to teach tap correctly. They’ve become famous within an self-celebratory echo chamber of other such hoofers. They seem to see no need to fill in their learning, although that doesn’t stop a few from trying to do “tributes” to Ann Miller or Powell which aren’t even close....Most of their students are in flat shoes and sitting way back on their heels developing bad habits. They don’t care about arm positions, angles, or varying the quality of the taps. The taps in this “style” aim more at being ammunition- a point seen in this film when JSS takes his tap shoes out as if from a holster. Better to watch Daniels’ s other tap choreography like Walken & Peters in “Pennies from Heaven.” Being a versatile veteran he could choreograph anything including Tap Dance Kid which ironically put this “street style” on the map. I prefer the Bowery Boys and their waltz clog....Many of us will leave it to the hoot & holler’in crowd who know very little about dance to actually be enthusiastic about this new “ throw spaghetti on the wall” tap. Thankfully, the Copasetics, Sammy Davis, and Astaire, Kelly, O’Connor are on film.

Amen!