Tap Steps
A step having two sounds: a brush and a spank.
What is a shuffle?
A group of all female performers known for their high kicks and tap numbers
Who are the Rockettes?
The speed of a piece of music.
An animated movie about a penguin who loves to tap dance
What is Happy Feet?
How many taps are on a tap shoe?
What is two?
A step having three sounds: a brush, a toe tap, and a heel drop.
What is a flap heel?
An all-female group of tap dancers formed by Chloe Arnold
Who are the Syncopated Ladies?
The pattern or arrangement of musical beats and silence.
What is rhythm?
A 1952 film starring Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, and Donald O'Connor.
What is Singing In the Rain?
A tap step that is done by brushing the heel of the tap shoe on the floor
What is a scuff?
A step having four sounds: dig, spank, toe (or ball), heel.
What is a paradiddle?
A tap and ballroom dancer known for his elegant style; he appeared in many films with his partner, Ginger Rogers.
Who is Fred Astaire?
What is another name for the pulse or beat of the music?
What is the meter?
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 female tapper who starred in a many movies as a young child back in the 1930s and 1940s
Who is Shirley Temple?
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?
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.
Who is Savion Glover?
A rhythm playing three notes in the space of two.
What is a triplet?
The first movie that Shirley Temple starred in with Bill Bojangles Robinson
What is "The Little Colonel"?
What is another name for a tap dancer?
What is a hoofer?
A classic tap step with seven sounds: flap, heel drop, heel drop, spank (back brush), heel drop, toe knock, heel drop
What is a Broadway?
A performer who was in over 40 movies, including White Nights with Mikhail Baryshnikov.
Who is Gregory Hines?
Accenting a note or notes that wouldn't normally be accented; rhythmic stresses or accents on the "off beat."
What is syncopation?
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?
Back in 1942, she was most famous for her record breaking tap sounds of 598 taps per minute.
Who is Ann Miller?