1 Tap Sound
Shifting/lifting both or one heel forward
What is a chug?
spank heel step
What is a drawback?
The break step in a series of drawbacks.
What is a cinncinnati?
Name two styles of tap dancing
Broadway tap & Rhythm tap
Stacey has this many siblings.
What is 2 (Bonus if you know she has 2 step siblings)
This tappers birthday is February 14, and widley used improv in his tap style.
Who is Gregory Hines?
What is wood?
Stacey has been teaching dance for this many years
What is 12 years
This tappers birthday is May 25 & helped bring tap dance to film. Loved the stairs. (extra points for his real name)
Who is Mr. Bojangles (Bill Robinson)
brush forward using the heel
What is a Scuff?
scraping bird like movement
What is a wing?
Pattern: flap right, heel drop left, heel drop right, brush back (spank) left, heel drop right, toe knock. left, heel drop right
What is alexander?
This dance is widley known by ALL tap dancers and considered the macarena of tap dancing.
What is the Shim Sham Shimmy?
Stacey's middle name
What is Elizabeth?
This tap dancer was known for gliding in his tap steps, & with a top hat & tails
Who is Fred Astaire?
tip of the toe dropping to the floor
what is a toe knock?
spank step using one or both feet
What is a pickup/pullback?
This step is known for keeping the tempo of the dance
What is a time step?
What is the type of rhythm called when you dance in between the beat?
Syncopation
Stacey's coffee order
What is a coconut flat white?
These two dancers started the Syncopated Ladies
Who are Chloe & Maud Arnold
Touch the bal of the tap on the floor brushing outwards, than place the bal of the foot on the floor.
What is flap?
leap right foot, left foot brush forward, left foot brush back, bal change
What is a waltz clog?
Tap dance stems from this original style of dancing and is how it was formed.
African Gumboot dancing
Stacey's lucky/favourite number
what is the number 4?
This tapper was known for Singing in the Rain & often danced in regular shoes.
Who is Gene Kelly?
spank step changing weight
what is a graboff?
step on the ball of the right foot, brush the left foot inwards and step on the ball of left foot, drop the left heel - sweep like motion
what is a bombershay with a heel?
brush the bal of the right foot outwards, brush the same bal across your other foot, step the right bal of the foot down, drop the right heel, drop the left heel, drop the right heel
what is a rhythm turn?
Finish this saying: Shave & a haircut .... (this is widely used as an ending to a tap sequence, often the shim sham)
What is two cents?
Stacey's cat's full name
Who is Jimothy Papyrus Chalamet?
This tapper created his own tap shoe.
Who is Jason Samuel Smith ?
both heels lifting and dropping to the side
what is a heel rock?
step the toe into the ground, drop the same heel, then drop the same toe outwards
What is a riff?
touch the bal of the foot to the ground, drop the heel, drop the same toe outwards, then drop the heel outwards
what is a crawl?
step on the bal of the right foot, toe knock the left foot, hop the right foot, and continue this pattern on the otherside rotating
what is a step toe hop turn?
Before movies and TV, tap dancers performed in this type of variety show. Tap dance grew in popularity through this style of live variety theatre in the early 1900s.
What is Vaudeville
Stacey has been teaching dance at Sophie Jean Dance Company for this many years.
What is 7 years?
This tap dancer could do 500 beats per minute.
Ann Miller