Tap Steps
A step having two sounds: a brush and a spank.
What is a shuffle?
Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Bombrashays and box step
The speed of a piece of music.
What is tempo?
The founder of Syncopated Ladies, a female tap dance band.
Who is Chloe Arnold?
A 1952 film starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor.
What is Singin' in the Rain?
A step having four sounds: dig, spank, toe (or ball), heel.
What is a paradiddle (or paddle)?
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson
Wings
Counted 1 and a 2 and a 3 and a 4 and a...
What is a triplet?
A tapper who gained fame from her collaborations with Postmodern Jukebox.
Who is Sarah Reich?
A movie and musical in which Peggy Sawyer, a small-town girl, dreams of tapping her way to Broadway stardom.
What is 42nd Street?
A step that can be done in place or turning, made up of the movements: step, shuffle, leap, toe-tip.
What is a Maxi (Maxie) Ford?
Nicholas Brothers
Over the tops
The pattern or arrangement of musical beats and silence.
What is rhythm?
A child prodigy who starred in The Tap Dance Kid on Broadway and won a Tony Award for Best Choreography for Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk. He was also a guest faculty at JUMP this past season
Who is Savion Glover?
A Cole Porter movie and musical that is a retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming Of The Shrew. The movie starred Ann Miller.
What is Kiss Me, Kate?
A step historically used to set tempo that repeats for several measures; the basic step is a stomp, hop, step, flap, step.
What is a timestep?
Eleanor Powell and Fred Astaire
Crawl variation
Counted one-i-and-a, two-i-and-a.....
Sixteenth notes
A performer who was in over 40 movies, including White Nights with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Who is Gregory Hines?
A 1921 musical that was adapted and re-staged in 2016 with choreography by Savion Glover.
What is Shuffle Along?
Any turn using the pattern heel heel ball ball
Rhythm turn
Gregory Hines and Suzzane Douglas
Waltz clogs
A part of a step that you put more stress on than other parts of that same step
Accent
A tapper known for her youthful, powerful energy and fast footwork. She is a 2015 MacArthur Fellow and has her own tap company.
Who is Michelle Dorrance?
A 1943 film that featured many famous tappers, most notably the Nicholas Brothers, performing what many consider the greatest musical dance number ever filmed.
What is Stormy Weather?